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AL-SAMT WA-AL-SAKHAB
Hanadi Al-Samman
Georgetown University Press (2022)
The Tent Generations
Mohammed Sawaie
Banipal Books (2022)
Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay
Samhita Sunya
University of California Press (2022)
Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography
Mehr Farooqi
Penguin Allen Lane (2021)
Introduction: South by South/West Asia: Transregional Histories of Middle East–South Asia Cinemas
Samhita Sunya
Indiana University Press (2020)
Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
Shankar Nair
University of California Press (2020)
Global Encylopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History
Hanadi Al-Samman
Gale (2019)
International Journal of Middle East Studies: Special Issue: Environment and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
Cambridge University Press (2018)
The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives
Nizar F. Hermes
Edinburgh University Press (2018)
The Beloved in MIddle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing
Hanadi Al-Samman
Bloombury Press (2017)
Forugh Farrokhzad: A Literary Biography with Unpublished Letters
Farzaneh Milani
Persian Circle (2016)
Spoken Levantine Arabic: An Introduction
Mohammed Sawaie
Modern Book's World (2016)
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Geeta Patel
(2016)
Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings
Hanadi Al-Samman
Syracuse University Press (2015)
Fundamentals of Arabic Grammar
Mohammed Sawaie
Routledge (2014)
International Journal of Middle East Studies: 45.2 SPECIAL ISSUE: "Queer Affects"
Hanadi Al-Samman
Cambridge University Press (2013)
Modernity & Lexicon of Nineteenth Century Arabic
Mohammed Sawaie
(2013)
Realms of Wonder: Jain, Hindu, and Islamic Art of India
Art Gallery of South Australia (2013)
The Two-Sided Canvas: Perspectives on Ahmed Ali
Mehr Farooqi
Oxford University Press (2013)
Les mots sont mes armes: Les femmes ecrivains iraniennes et la liberte de mouvement
Farzaneh Milani
Lettres Persanes (2012)
Urdu Literary Culture: Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari
Mehr Farooqi
Palgrave Macmillan (2012)
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD
Nizar F. Hermes
Palgrave MacMillan (2012)
Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement
Farzaneh Milani
Syracuse University Press (2011)
The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature: Fiction
Mehr Farooqi
Oxford University Press (2011)
The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules
Robert Hueckstedt
Penguin Global (2010)
The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature: Poetry and Prose Miscellany
Mehr Farooqi
Oxford University Press (2010)
Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
Daniel Lefkowitz
Oxford University Press, USA (2004)
A Study of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's Letters in the National Archives in Tunis
Mohammed Sawaie
al-Mu'assassa al-Arabiyya li al-Dirasat wal al-Nashr (2004)
Short Shorts Long Stories Shots
Robert Hueckstedt
Katha (2004)
Essays on Jaina Art
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (2003)
Rage, Revelry, and Romance...: Selected Short Stories of Uday Prakash
Robert Hueckstedt
Srishti (2003)
La Crise De La Terminologie Arabe Au XIX Siecle
Mohammed Sawaie
Institut Francais de Damas (1999)
A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems
Farzaneh Milani
Syracuse University Press (1999)
Al-Tanbih Ala Galat Al-Gahil Wa Al-Nabih
Mohammed Sawaie
L'Institut Francais D'Etudes Arabes de Damas (1994)
Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
Farzaneh Milani
Syracuse University Press (1992)
Ta'Rib Al-Kalima Al-A'Gamiyya
Mohammed Sawaie
L'Institut Francais d'Etudes Arabes de Damas (1991)
Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in the United States and Canada: A Bibliographical Guide with Annotation
Mohammed Sawaie
(1984)
The Chandayan
Richard Cohen
The Marg Foundation
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