A collection of previously published essays. Dates of original publication range from 1986 to 2011.

No Western scholar has contributed as much to the study of modern Arabic narrative as has Roger Allen. His doctoral dissertation was the very first Oxford D.Phi

This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the eas

After formulating a theoretical foundation for the sociology of narrative genres based on the work of Bakhtin, Foucault, Goldmann, Jauss and Said, this work cha

"Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that consid