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Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay
Samhita Sunya
University of California Press (2022)
AL-SAMT WA-AL-SAKHAB
Hanadi Al-Samman
Georgetown University Press (2022)
The Tent Generations
Mohammed Sawaie
Banipal Books (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)
The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives
Nizar F. Hermes
Edinburgh University Press (2018)
International Journal of Middle East Studies: Special Issue: Environment and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
Cambridge University Press (2018)
The Beloved in MIddle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing
Hanadi Al-Samman
Bloombury Press (2017)
Spoken Levantine Arabic: An Introduction
Mohammed Sawaie
Modern Book's World (2016)
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Geeta Patel
Forugh Farrokhzad: A Literary Biography with Unpublished Letters
Farzaneh Milani
Persian Circle (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)
The Two-Sided Canvas: Perspectives on Ahmed Ali
Mehr Farooqi
Oxford University Press (2013)
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
Realms of Wonder: Jain, Hindu, and Islamic Art of India
Art Gallery of South Australia (2013)
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)
Les mots sont mes armes: Les femmes ecrivains iraniennes et la liberte de mouvement
Farzaneh Milani
Lettres Persanes (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)
Short Shorts Long Stories Shots
Robert Hueckstedt
Katha (2004)
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)
Rage, Revelry, and Romance...: Selected Short Stories of Uday Prakash
Robert Hueckstedt
Srishti (2003)
Essays on Jaina Art
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (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
The Chandayan
Richard Cohen
The Marg Foundation
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