Journal of Arabic Literature

Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi Professor Muhsin al-Musawi is an internationally renowned scholar and literary critic who joined The American University of Sharjah, and then Columbia University, with over 20 years' experience teaching at a number of institutions in the Middle East. Described by The Chronicle of Higher Education as "one of the Arab world's leading literary critics," al-Musawi's teaching and research interests span several periods and genres. He is the author of 24 books (including four novels) and over 60 scholarly articles. His books include: Scheherazade in England (1981), The Society of One Thousand and One Nights (2000), and Anglo-Orient: Easterners in Textual Camps (2000). His most recent book, The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence (Brill, 2003), is the first study of its kind to tackle the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. His forthcoming book Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Tradition and Modernity (Routledge) represents the most comprehensive treatment of this topic to date. Al-Musawi is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the prestigious Owais Award in Literary Criticism (2002). He has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Arabic Literature since 1999.

General Editor:
Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi (Columbia University)

Book Review Editor:
Mara Naaman (Williams College)

Editorial Board: Thomas Bauer (University of Münster), Stefan Sperl (SOAS, London), James T. Monroe (University of California, Berkeley), Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych (Indiana University, Bloomington) Associate Editor: Elizabeth Holt (Bard College)

Advisory Board: Samer Ali (University of Texas at Austin), Lourdes Maria Alvarez (Catholic University of America), Moneera al-Ghadeer (Qatar University), Michelle Hartman (McGill University), Yair Huri (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Flagg Miller (University of California, Davis), Yaseen Noorani (University of Arizona), Dwight Reynolds (University of California, Santa Barbara), Madeleine Dobie (Columbia University), Shaden Tageldin (University of Minnesota), Shawkat Toorawa (Cornell University)

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