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Issue contents

In Issue No. 40

- Features & Essays -
Odyssey of Words: Evolution of the Arabic Language in the 20th Century, by Georgine Ayoub

Early Arab Press in the Americas, by Edmund Ghareeb

John Naoum Tannous on Tradition's Victims in Emily Nasrallah's 'Dormant Embers'

Gibran's 'The Prophet:' Outside the Canon of American Literature, by D.H. Melhem

A Gathering of Shades: Mapping the Core of Lebanese Immigrants by Samir Mattar

Visions of Reality in the Arab Novel, by Andrea Shalal-Esa

- Film Reviews -
Pamela Nice on 'Frontiers of Dreams and Fears'

Malek Abisaab on 'Islam: Empire of Faith'

- Book Reviews -
Lest the Imagined East-West Schism Becomes Real, by George Tarabishi

Lynne Rogers on 'Aesthetic Occupation'

Susan Muaddi Darraj on 'Orphans of Islam'

Silvia Chelala on 'They Die Strangers'

Paul Sullivan on 'In The Name of Osama Bin Laden'

Jordan Elgrably on Bahaa Taher's 'Love in Exile'

Serap Bozkent-Franco on Joseph Massad's 'Colonial Effect'

Pauline Homsi Vinson on Sonallah Ibrahim's 'Zaat'

Faisal Tbeileh on 'Modernity & Culture' and 'Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City'

- Interviews -
Leila al-Othman on Society, Censorship, and Longing for the Past, interview by Sabah Zwein

Hicham Chami speaks with Cindy Infantino on The Quintessential Qanun

- Exhibitions -
A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City by Ema Shackelton

- Poem -
Liberty Discount (A New York Poem)
by Peggy Garrison
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