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Volume 8, No. 40 (Summer 2002)
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Contents

Features & Essays

8. Early Arab Press in the Americas, by Edmund Ghareeb

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

14. An Odyssey of Words: Evolution of the Arabic Language in the 20th Century, by Georgine Ayoub

22. Tradition's Victims: Love and Marriage in Emily Nasrallah's 'Dormant Embers', by John Naoum Tannous

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

28. The Arab Novel: Visions of Social Reality, by Andrea Shalal-Esa

Interviews

7. Leila al-Othman talks on Society, Censorship and Longing for the Past, interviewed by Sabah Zwein

13. Hicham Chami talks on the Quintessential Qanun, interviewed by Cindy Infantino

EXHIBITIONS

12. A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, by Ema Shakelton

Film Review

4. Islam: Empire of Faith directed by Robert Gardner, Reviewed by Malek Abisaab

5. Frontiers of Dreams and Fears directed by Mai Masri, Reviewed by Pamela Nice

Book Reviews

3. East and West: Imagined Fracture by George Corm, Reviewed by George Tarabishi

6. Orphans of Islam by Jamila Bargach, Reviewed by Susan Muaddi Darraj

16. They Die Strangers by Muhammad Abdul-Wali, Reviewed by Silvia Chelala

17. An Aesthetic Occupation by Daniel Bertrand Monk, Reviewed by Lynne Rogers

18. Love in Exile by Bahaa Taher, Reviewed by Jordan Elgrably

19. In the Name of Osama Bin Laden by Roland Jacquard, Reviewed by Paul Sullivan

20. Colonial Effects by Joseph Massad, Reviewed by Serap Bozkent-Franco

21. Zaat by Sonallah Ibrahim, Reviewed by Pauline Homsi Vinson

26. Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831 by Thomas Philipp and Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean edited by Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C.A. Bayley, Reviewed by Faisal Tbeileh

Poem

25. Liberty Discout: A New York Poem, by Peggy Garrison

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