English and Arabic.

Articles in English or Arabic.

Alif ; no. 18, 1998

English section: The alexandrian quintet / Sudeep Sen

A few thoughts on Indian fiction, 1947-1997 / Stephen Alter

The poetics of solidarity: Palestine in modern Urdu poetry / Shahab Ahmed

The narrative of migration: Nahal's Azadi in comparative context / Paul Love

Beyond the divide: history and national boundaries in the work of Amitav Ghosh / Hind Wassef

"Shakespeare" and the codes of empire in India / Nandi Bhatia

Epic struggles over India's forests in Mahasweta Devi's short fiction / Jennifer Wenzel

The English patient: from fiction to reel / Maggie M. Morgan

The modern re-appropriation of myth / Hassan Khan

Gandhi and the discourse of rural development in independent India / Nicholas S. Hopkins

The rhetoric of epidemic in India: news coverage of AIDS / Mark Allen Peterson

The fragmentation of culture in Afghanistan / Larry Goodson

My place in the world (interview with Preeti Singh) / Bapsi Sidhwa

Memories of Faiz / Sabiha T. Aydelott

Abstracts of Arabic articles

Notes on contributors.

Arabic section: The alexandrian quintet / Sudeep Sen

Second sight: selected poems (translated and introduced by Muhammed Afifi Matar / A.K. Ramanujan

Myth of lost/regained: a Pakistani rereading of Andalusia / Marie-Thérèse Abd el Messih

Haroun and the sea of stories / Esmat Abd el Wahab

Salaam Bombay: on underdevelopmen (sic) and desultoriness / Salwa Bakr

The cultural confrontations of Aijaz Ahmad / Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi

Subaltern studies school and the question of modernity (translated by Bashir El-Sibai̓) / Timothy Mitchell

Subaltern studies: deconstructing historiography (translated and introduced by Samia Mehrez) / Gayaytri Chakravorty Spivak

From borrowing to retrieving: Fazlur Rahman's Islam and modernity / Ali Mabrouk

From fancy to reality: Muhammad Yunus' reach to the poorest of the poor / Heba Handousa

Portrait and vision of a Sri Lankan "saint" (translated by Eman El-Nouhy) / Gananath Obeyesekere

The Indian writer's problems (translated and introduced by Rasha Faltas) / Anita Desai

Yearnings for bygone Indian encounters / Edwar al-Kharrat

Abstracts of English articles

Notes on contributors.

South Asian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.

Indic literature > 20th century > History and criticism.

South Asia > Intellectual life > 20th century.

India > Intellectual life > 20th century.