ARAB BOOK WORLD: 100 Years of Arab Women Novelists, Golden Era of Lebanese Theater, and Arab Women Scholars Documented in Three Books by Mahmoud Saeed

"Untitled" by Mohamed
Omer Bushara

Egypt's Censors by Pamela Nice
Nour Salman Speaks on Gender, Literature, Language
by Nada Najjar

BOOK & ART REVIEWS
Gertrude Bell's Arabian Diaries by ISSA BOULLATA
Botman's 'Endangered Citizenship in Egypt' by MALEK ABISAAB
Covering Political Islam by JUDITH GABRIEL
Alcalay's 'Memories Of Our Future' by JORDAN ELGRABLY
Meyer's "The Experimental Arab Novel" by CHRIS McCABE
Can Oil and Democracy Mix? By FAISAL TBEILEH
RAWI Anthology by KIM JENSEN
MANAL SWAIRJO on Doris Bittar's 'The Wandering Ishmael'
SARAH ROGERS on Palestine's New Artists

PLUS OTHER REVIEWS: Nawal el-Saadawi's First Novel Still Relevant: 'Memoirs of a Woman Doctor'; Walter Armburst's 'Mass Mediations': The Academy Encounters Popular Culture; Nathalie Handal's 'The Poetry of Arab Women': Poems of Truth