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Forugh Farrokhzad: A Literary Biography with Unpublished Letters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