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ALGERIA            

                      

  • Muqaddimat/Prologues, "Le renouveau du roman maghrebin," 13-14 (Aut. 1998).

  • Algerian drama, Akhbar al-adab no. 37 (27 Mar. 1994): 31.

  • Banipal 7 (Spr. 2000): pp. 37-80: Dib, Bujedra, Wattar, Haddad, Ibn Haduqah, K. Yasin, Djebar,

  • Abu Hayf, `Abd al-Latif, Algerian short story,  Al-Mawqif al-adabi 205-6 (Mar.- Apl. 1988); 207 (Tammuz, 1988): 23-32. 

  • Abu-Haidar, Farida, "The Algerian Francophone Novel," Arab Cultural Scene 1982, 30-33. 

  • ------------------,  "The  Bipolarity  of  Rachid  Boujedra," Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. XX no. 1 (1989), 40-56. 

  • Abu l-Naja,  Abu l-Ma`ati,  "Wajhan li-wajh:  `Abd al-hamid ibn  Hadduqa,"  Al-`Arabi Feb. 1987, 129-136. 

  • `Allush,  Sa`id, "Sawnan li- "Sharaf al-Qabila," riwayat Al-Rashid al-Maymuni,"

  • Afaq `Arabiyya 15 no. 12 (1990), 147-51. 

  • Arab,  Si Abderrahmane,  "The National Liberation War  in  the  French-language

  • Novel of Algeria," BRISMES Bulletin Vol. 17 no. 1 (1990), 33-46. 

  • Arabic literature in North Africa, Cambridge, Mass.: Dar Mahjar, 1982

  • Balhasan, `Ammar, "Al-Riwaya/al-madina," Mawaqif 51-2 (Sum-Fall 1984), 123-134.

  • Bois,   Marcel,   "Arabic-language  Algerian  Literature,   Review  of  African Literatures Vol. 23 no. 2 (1992): 103-11. 

  • Cox,  Debbie,  "Symbolism  and Allegory in the Algerian Arabic Novel,  Arabic & Middle Eastern Literatures Vol. 1 no. 2 (1998): 193-204. 

  • Dughan, Ahmad,  Fi al-adab al-Jaza'iri al-hadith,  Damascus:  Ittihad al-Kuttab wa-al-udaba' al-`Arab, 1996. 

  • Fath  al-bab,  Hasan,  "Al-Rabwa  al-mansiyya:  riwaya  li-al-katib al-Jaza'iri Mawlud al-Ma`mari," Al-`Arabi 378 (May 1990), 122-27. 

  • Al-Fayturi,  Al-Shadhli,  "Al-Izdiwajiyya al-lughawiyya  wa-al-izdiwajiyya  al-thaqafiyya fi al-watan al-`Arabi," Afaq `Arabiyya 7 (July 1990), 68-75. 

  • Hafiz,  Sabri,   "Malik  Haddad:   mughanni  al-ard  al-Jaza'iriyya,"  Al-Bayan [Kuwait], May 1972.

  • Igonetti, Guiseppina, "`Abd al-Hamid Ibn Hadduqa: una voce nuova dall'Algeria," Studi maghrebini (Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli), IX (1977), 195- 209.

  • --------------------,  Zuhur  Wannisi:  prima scrittice araba d'Algeria," Studi Maghrebini XII (1980), 247-260.

  • --------------------,  "Un racconto di Marzuq  Baqtash,"  Studi  Maghrebini  XV (1983), 171-181. 

  • Al-Jabiri,  M.,  "Tunisia in the view of the Algerian poets," Al-Fikr 29 no.  6 (May 1984), 123-129. 

  • Masayif,  Muhammad,  "Al-Naqid  al-Jaza'iri..."  Afaq `Arabiyya Vol.  11 no. 9 (Sept. 1986) 128-30.

  • ------------------, Al-Riwayah al-`Arabiyyah al-Jaza'iriyyah al- hadithah bayna al-waqi`iyyah  wa-'l-iltizam,  Algiers:  Al-Sharikah al-wataniyyah li-'l-nashr wa-'l-tawzi`, 1983. 

  • Pantucek, Svetozar, La litterature algerienne moderne, Prague: Academia, 1969. 

  • Rakibi, `Abdallah, Al-Nathr al-Jaza'iri al-hadith, Cairo:  Ma`had al-buhuth wa- 'l-dirasat al-`Arabiyyah, 1976. 

  • ----------------------,  Al-qissa l-Jaza'iriyya al-qasira, Tunis:  Al-Dar al-`Arabiyya li-al-kitab, 1977.

  • ------------------,   Al-qissa  al-qasira  fi  al-adab  al-Jaza'iri, Cairo: Dar al-Katib al-`Arabi, 1969. 

  •  Sellin,  Eric, "Literary expression and the State:  The Case of Algeria," World  Literature Today Vol. 61 no. 3 (Summer 1986), 428-32. 

  •  ------------,  "Mouloud  Mammeri  Returns  to  the Mountains," World Literature Today Vol. 63 no. 3 (Summer 1989), 447-8.

  •  ------------, "Obsession with the White Page, the Inability to Communicate, and Surface Aestetics in the development of Contemporary Maghrebian  Fiction;  The  Mal de la Page blanche in Khatibi,  Fares,  and Meddeb," International Journal of Middle East Studies 20 no. 2 (May 1988), 165-173. 

ANDALUS (SPAIN)

  •  Armistead,  S.  and Monroe,  J.,  "Beached Whales and Roaring Mice:  Additional Remarks on Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry," La Cronica XIII (1985), 206-242. 

  •  Baker, Khalid Lafta, "Ibn Bassam as Stylist," Journal of Arabic Literature XXII  no. 2 (Sept. 1991), 108-26.

  •  Corriente, F.,  "The metres of the muwassah,  an Andalusian Adaptation of `Arud (A bridging hypothesis)," Journal of Arabic Literature XIII (1982), 76-82. 

  •  Daya, Muhammad Ridwan, Tarikh al-naqd al-adabi fi 'l-Andalus, Beirut, 1968. 

  •  Ferrando,  ignacio,  "Andalusi musammat:  Some  Remarks  on  its  Stanzaic  and Metrical Structure," Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 30 no. 1 (1999): 78-89. 

  •  Gorton, T.J.  "Arabic Influence on the Troubadours:  Documents and Directions,"  Journal of Arabic Literature V (1974), 11-16. 

  •  Hartmann, Martin, Das arabische Strophengedicht.  I Das Muwassah, Weimar. 1974. 

  •  Hitchcock, R., The Kharjas, Research, Bibliographies,  and Checklists,  London,  1977. 

  •  Jones,  Alan, "Romance Scansion and the Muwassahat:  An Emperor's New Clothes`"  Journal of Arabic Literature XI (1980), 36-55. 

  •  -----------, "Sunbeams from Cucumbers:  An Arabist's Assessment of the State of the Kharja," La Cronica X (1981-2), 38-53. 

  •  Khalis, Salah, La vie litteraire a Seville au XIme siecle, Algiers: SNED, 1966. 

  •  Kotzamanidou, Maria, "The Spanish and Arabic Characterization of the Go-Between in the Light of Popular Performance," Hispanic Review 48 (1980), 91-109. 

  •  Monroe, James, "Prolegomena to the study of Ibn Quzman:  The Poet as Jongleur,"  The Hispanic Ballad Today: Comparativism, Critical Bibliography, Madrid, 1979, 77-129. 

  •  -------------, "The Structure of an Arabic muwashshah with a bilingual kharja," Edebiyat Vol. 1 no. 1 (1976), 113-123. 

  •  Mustafa,  Qaysar,  Hawla al-adab al-Andalusi,  Beirut:  Mu'assassat  al-Ashraf, 1988`

  •  Schippers,  Arie,  "Short  Poems  in Andalusian Literature:  Reflections on Ibn Khafaja's Poems about Figs," Quaderni di studi arabi 5-6 (1987-88), 708-17. 

BAHRAIN

  • Mikhalak-Pikulska, Barbara, “Contemporary Theatre in Kuwait and Bahrain,” Quaderni di studi

  • arabi 19(2001): 163-172.

  • Al-Shaybani,  Khayrat,  "Al-Sha`ir  al-Bahrayni  Dr.  `Ulwi  al-Hashimi,"  Afaq `Arabiyya 11 (Nov. 1987), 126-29

  • The Literature of Modern Arabia ed.  Salma Khadra Jayyusi,  London:  Kegan Paul International, 1988.

EGYPT

  • Egyptian  women  writers,  Akhbar al-adab 92 (16 April 1995):  11-15. 

  • Egyptian women short-story writers,  Une voix bien a elles ed. Angele Botros Samaan, Cairo: Prisme, 1997.

  • Egyptian women writers,  Katibat Misriyyah ed  Salma  Galal  and  Irene  Matta, Cairo: n.p. 1997

  • Egyptian  novel in 1960s,  Akhbar al-adab 165 (15  Sept.  1996):  14-15. 

  • Egyptian short story 2 generation, Akhbar al-adab 173 (3 Nov.  1996): 14-15. 

  • Egyptian poetry at the turn of the century, Akhbar al-adab 289 (24 Jan. 1999).

  • Survey of al-Hay'ah al-Misriyyah al-`ammah magazine  distribution,  Akhbar  al- adab 313 (11 July 1999): 10. 

  • Abdel-Malek,  Kamal,  "The  khawaga then and now:  images of the West in modern Egyptian zajal," Journal of Arabic Literature XIX part 2 (1988), 162-178. 

  • `Abd al-Qadir, Faruq, Izdihar wa-suqut al-masrah al-Misri,  Cairo:  Dar al-Fikr al-mu`asir, 1979. 

  • `Abd al-Wahhab, Faruq, [+ others], "Ittijahat thawriyya fi al-masrah al-Misri," Al-Masrah 7 (July 1964), 25-54. 

  • -------------------, "Rashad Rushdi," Al-Masrah 19 (Jul. 1965), 19-26. 

  • Abu Ahmad, Hamid, "Halat al-shi`r fi Misr," Al-`Arabi 374 (Jan.  1990), 86-91. 

  • Abu `Awf,  `Abd al-Rahman,  Al-Bahth `an Tariq Jadid fi al-qissa al-qasira al-Misriyya, Cairo: n.p., 1971.

  • Abul Naga,  Atia,  Les sources francaises du theatre egyptien,  Alger:  Societe nationale d'edition et de diffusion, 1972. 

  • Al-`Alim,   Mahmud  Amin,  "`Shaksiyyat  Misr'  laysa  kitab  ma`rifa..,"  Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 11 no. 8 (1986), 128-131. 

  • Al-`Alim,  Mahmud Amin & `Abd al-`Azim Anis,  Fi al-thaqafa al-Misriyya, Cairo: n.p., 1955. 

  • Allen.  Roger, Hadith `Isa ibn Hisham, Al-Muwaylihi's Study of Egypt During the British occupation, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974. 

  • `Atiyya,  Na`im,  "Al-Mu'aththirat al-urubiyya fi al-qissa al-Misriyya  fi  al-sab`inat," Fusul Vol.  II no. 4 (Jul.-Sept. 1982): 209-222. 

  • Awad,  Louis,  "Problems of the Egyptian Theatre,"  in  Studies  in Modern  Arabic Literature ed.  R.C.  Ostle,  Warminster,  England: Aris & Phillips, 1975, 179-193. 

  • al-`Ayuti, Amin, "Sa`d al-din Wahba," Al-Masrah 19 (Jul. 1965), 31-5. 

  • `Ayyad,  Muhammad Shukri,  Al-Qissa al-qasira fi  Misr:  Dirasa  fi ta'sil  fann  adabi,  Cairo:  Ma`had  al-buhuth  wa-al-dirasat al-`arabiyya, 1968. 

  • Badawi,  `Abduh Muhammad,  "Al-Shi`r fi wadi al-Nil," Al-`Arabi 375 (Feb. 1990), 81-86. 

  • Badawi, Mustafa, "The Father of the Modern Egyptian Theatre: Ya`qub Sannu`, Journal of Arabic Literature XVI (1985), 132-145. 

  • ---------------, Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt, Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1987. 

  • Badr, `Abd al-muhsin Taha, Al-Riwa'i wa-al-ard, Cairo: Al-Hay'a al-Misriyya al-`amma li-al-kitab, 1971.

  • -------------------------,   Tatawwur  al-riwaya  al-`Arabiyya  al- haditha fi Misr (1870-1939), Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1963. 

  • Barresi,   Concetta   Ferial,   Narratori   egiziani  contemporanei Introduzione, traduzione e note, Roma: IPO, 1977.

  • -----------------,  "La narrativa  egiziana  contemporanea," Oriente Moderno LVIII (1978), 17-26.

  • ------------------------,   "Gli   intellectuali   fra  consenso  e disimpegno--L'Egitto da Nasser a Sadat," Politica Internazionale 3 (1978), 72-75. 

  • Booth, Marilyn, "Beneath Lies the Rock: contemporary Egyptian poetry and the Common Tongue," World Literature Today, Spring 2001: 257-66.

  • --------------, "Colloquial Arabic poetry,  Politics,  and the press in Modern Egypt,"  International  Journal of Middle East Studies Vol.  24 no.  3 (August 1992): 429-40.

  • Braquemond, Richard, On Ittihad kuttab, Akhbar al-adab 293, 21 Feb. 1999, 8-9; 294 (28 Feb. 1999): 8-9.

  • Brugman,  J.,  An  Introduction  to  the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. 

  • Burt, Clarissa C., "The Good,  the Bad,  and the Ugly:  The Canonical Sieve and Poems from an Egyptian Avant Garde," Journal of Arabic Literature Vol.  XXVIII no. 2 (1997): 141-78. 

  • Cachia,  Pierre,  "The Egyptian Mawwal:  Its Ancestry,  its Development and its present Forms," Journal of Arabic Literature VIII (1977), 77-103. 

  • Cooke,  Miriam,  "Prisons:   Egyptian  Women  Writers  on  Islam,"  Religion & Literature 20.1 (Spr. 1988), 139-156. 

  • Dayf,  Shawqi,  Al-adab al-`arabi al-mu`asir fi Misr,  Cairo:  Dar  al-Ma`arif, 1957. 

  • Al-Disuqi, `Umar, Nash`at al-nathr al-hadith wa-tatawwuruhu, Cairo:  Ma`had al-dirasat al-`Arabiyya al-`aliya, 1962. 

  • Duwara, Fu'ad, Fi al-riwaya al-Misriyya, Cairo: Dar al-Katib al-`Arabi, 1968. 

  • Elad, Ami, "The Egyptian 'Village Novel'--Fiction and Reality," Iraeli Academic Center in Cairo no. 5 (Fall 1984), n.p. 

  • ----------,  "Varieties  of  Language  Usage in Dialogue in the Modern Egyptian Village Novel," in Studies in Canonical and  Popular  Arabic  Literature,  New Brunswick: York Press, 1998, 77-86.

  • Elkhadem,  Saad, History of the Egyptian novel:  its rise and early beginnings, Fredericton, New Brunswick: York Press, 1985. 

  • Fanjul,  Serafin,  "The erotic Popular Mawwa:l in  Egypt,"  Journal  of Arabic Literature VIII (1977), 104-122. 

  • Farid, Mahir Shafiq, "Tajribat al-`abath bayn al-adab al-gharbi wa-al-qissa al- misriyya al-qasira," Fusul Vol.  II no. 4 (Jul.-Sept.  1982): 223-38. 

  • Folktales  of  Egypt  ed.  Hasan M.  el-Shamy,  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1980. 

  • Fontaine, Jean, "Le nouveau roman Egyptien 1975-1985," IBLA 49 no.  158 (1985), 215-262. 

  • Guth,  Stefan,  "The Function of Sexual Passages in some Egyptian Novels of the 1980s,"  in  Love  and  Sexuality  in  Modern  Arabic  Literature  ed.  Allen, Kilpatrick & de Moor, London: Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 123-30. 

  • Hafiz, Sabri, "Al-Ard wa-al-`iyal wa-shi`r al-`ammiyya al-Misriyya," Al-Majalla Apl. 1965. 

  •  ------------,  "Innovation in the Egyptian Short Story," in Studies in  Modern Arabic Literature ed.  R.C.  Ostle, Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1975, 86-98

  • ------------, "Ittijahat al-riwaya al-Misriyya ba`d al-thawra," Al-Majalla Jul. 1965. 

  • ------------,  "Majmu`at 1969 al-qasasiyya," Al-Majalla Oct.  1970, 66-77. 

  • -------------, "Al-Mawja al-jadida fi al-riwaya al-Misriyya," Al-Tali`a,  Aug. 1971. 

  • ----------,  "The  Egyptian  Novel  in  the  Sixties," Journal of Arabic Literature VII (1976): 68-84.

  • ---------------, "Al-Uqsusa al-Misriyya wa-al-hadatha," Al-Ma`rifa,  Jul. 1969.

  • Hamada,  Ibrahim,  "Al-Bidaya al-ghina'iyya fi al-masrah al-Misri," Al-Masrah 74 (Nov.-Dec. 1970), 43-48. 

  • Hamza, `Abd al-Latif,  Adab al-Maqala al-suhufiyya fi Misr,  Cairo: Dar al-Fikr al-`Arabi, n.d. 

  • ---------------------,  Mustaqbal al-sihafa fi Misr, Cairo:  Dar al-Fikr al-`Arabi, 1957. 

  • Haqqi,  Yahya,  Fajr  al-qissa  al-Misriyya,  Cairo:  Al-Hay'a  al-Misriyya al-`amma li-al-kitab, 1975.

  • Hasan, Muhammad Rushdi, Athar al-maqamah fi nash'at al-qissah al- Misriyyah al-hadithah, Cairo: Al-Hay'ah al-Misriyyah al-`ammah li-'l-kitab, 1974.

  • Al-Hawari,  Ahmad  Ibrahim,  Masadir  naqd al-riwaya fi al-adab al-`Arabi al-hadith fi Misr, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1979.

  • ------------------------,  Al-Batal  al-mu`asir  fi  al-riwaya  al- Misriyya, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1979.

  • Haykal,  Ahmad,  Al-Adab al-qasasi wa-al-masrahi fi Misr min  a`qab thawrat 1919 ila qiyam al-harb al-kubra al-thaniya, Cairo: Dar al- Ma`arif, 1971.

  • -------------,  Tatawwur al-adab al-hadith fi Misr min  awa'il  al- qarn al-tasi` `ashar ila qiyam al-harb al-kubra al-thaniya, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1971. 

  • Huwaydi,  Salih, "Bunyat al-ru'ya wa-wazifatuha fi namadhij min al-qissa al-`Iraqiyya al-qasira," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 16 no. 9 (Sept.  1991), 72-77. 

  • Idarat al-Masrah,  "Al-Masrah al-Misri fi  al-shahr,"  Al-Masrah  2 (Feb. 1964), 61-65. 

  • Al-`Ilmi,  Yahya, "`Ali Ahmad Bakathir," Al-Masrah 19 (Jul.  1965), 42-6. 

  • `Inani, Muhammad Muhammad, "Al-Tarkib wa-al-tahlil fi al-masrah al- Misri," Al-Masrah 10 (Oct. 1964), 33-39. 

  • Al-`Ishri, Jalal, Thaqafatuna bayn al-asala wa-al-mu`asara,  Cairo: n.p., 1971. 

  • ----------------,  "Yusuf Idris," Al-Masrah 19 (Jul.  1965), 36-41. 

  • Iskandar, Amir, "Al-Masrah al-Misri al-mu`asir: takhtit li-dirasa idiyulujiyya," Al-Masrah 74 (Nov.-Dec.  1970), 33-37.

  • Jad,  `Ali,  Form and technique in the  Egyptian  novel  1912-1971, London: Ithaca Press, 1983. 

  • Jali, Mahrus Minshawi, Tatawwur al-nathr al-fanni fi Misr fi al-qarn al-tasi` `ashar, Cairo: Dar al-fikr al-`Arabi, 1986.

  • Jamal al-Ghitani, Ahmad al-Shaykh, "Madha yaqul al-shubban al-judud  fi  al-Jumhuriyya al-`Arabiyya al-muttahida," Mawaqif 7 (Jan.-Feb.  1970), 306-317. 

  • Al-Jaza'iri,  Muhammad,  "Qasdiyyat al-sard wa-al-tas`id al-iha'i,"  Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 16 no. 8 (August 1991), 124-27. 

  • Jibril, Muhammad, Misr fi qisas kuttabiha al-mu`asirin, Cairo:  Al-Hay'a al-Misriyya al-`amma li-al-kitab, 1972. 

  • Kamal al-din,  Muhammad,  "Ya`qub Sannu` wa-nash'at  al-masrah  al-Misri," Al-Masrah 74 (Nov.-Dec. 1970), 73-77. 

  • Kassab, Mahmud Hanafi, "Al-Adab ghayr al-rasmi fi Wadi al-Nil," Al-Mawqif al-adabi June 1972, 143-148. 

  • Kazim, Safinaz, "Tafsir ahwal `adam al-qadra `ala al-kitaba bi-`ard `ayna bayyina," Mawaqif 15 (May-June 1971), 133-138.

  • Kendal, Elizabeth, “The theoretical roots of the literary avant-garde in 1960s Egypt,” Edebiyat 14 nos.1 & 2 (May/November 2003): 39-56.

  • Khafaji, Muhammad `Abd al-Mun`im, Al-Hayat al-adabiyya fi Misr: al-`asr al-Mamluki wa-al-`Uthmani, Cairo: Maktabat al-Kulliyya al-Azhariyya, 1984.

  • Khidr,  `Abbas,  Al-qissa al-qasira fi Misr mundhu nash'atiha hatta sanat  1930,  Cairo:  Al-Dar al-Qawmiyya li-al-tiba`a wa-al-nashr, 1966. 

  • Kilpatrick, H.,  The Modern Egyptian Novel,  London:  Ithaca Press,  1974. 

  • Al-Ma`addawi, Anwar, Kalimat fi al-adab, Sidon & Beirut: Al-Maktaba al-`Asriyya, 1966, 82-94, 127-141 & 166-172. 

  • al-Ma`aliqi,  Mundhir,  "Al-Sihafa  al-Misriyya  wa-ittijahatuha fi `asr al-nahda," Afaq `arabiyya Dec. 1985, 30-37. 

  • Majalli,  Shafiq,  "Al-hiwar fi al-masrah al-Misri,"  Al-masrah  10 (Oct. 1964), 40-43. 

  • ----------------, "Nu`man `Ashur,' Al-masrah 19 (Jul. 1965), 14-18. 

  • Makkawi, `Abd al-Ghaffar, "Al-Insan..al-Insan," Al-Masrah 74 (Nov.-Dec. 1970), 23-32. 

  • Makki, Al-Tahir Ahmad, "Al-Qissa fi wadi al-Nil: tayarat wa-ajyal," Al-`Arabi 377 (Apl. 1990), 109-15.

  • Mandur,  Muhammad,  Fi al-masrah al-Misri al-mu`asir, Cairo:  n.p., 1971. 

  • ----------------, Masrah Tawfiq al-Hakim,  Cairo:  Dar Nahdat Misr, 1960. 

  •  ----------------, Masrahiyyat Shawqi, Cairo: Dar Nahdat Misr, 1954. 

  • Masliyah,  Sadok,  "Mulahazat  hawla al-qissa al-Misriyya al-qasira wa-harb October," Al-Karmil 9 (1988), 141-66. 

  • Mehrez,  Samia,  "Poetic Experimentation and the  Institution:  the Case of Idha`a 77 and Aswat," in The View from Within: Writers and Critics  on Contemporary Arabic Literature ed.  Ferial J.  Ghazoul and Barbara Harlow,  Cairo:  American University In  Cairo  Press, 1994, pp. 177-96.

  • Moussa-Mahmoud,  Fatma,  The  Arabic  Novel  in Egypt (1914-1970), Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1973.

  • Muhsin,  Hasan,  Fi al-Masrah al-Misri al-Hadith,  Cairo:  Dar  al-Nahdat al-`Arabiyya, 1969. 

  • Al-Munasara, Muhammad `Izz al-din, "Al-Jil al-jadid fi Misr," Mawaqif 4 (Mar.-June 1969), 145-146.

  • Mutawi`, Hani, "Thawrat`Abd al-Nasir wa-al-masrah al-Misri,"  Al- Masrah 74 (Nov. 1970), 14-22.

  • Najm, Muhammad  Yusuf,  Al-Masrah  al-`Arabi:dirasat wa-nusus,  3:  Ya`qub Sanu`, Beirut: Dar al-Thaqafa, 1963. 

  • Al-Nassaj,  Sayyid  Hamid,  Dalil  al-qissa  al-Misriyya al-qasira, Cairo, n.p., 1972. 

  • -----------------------,  Ittijahat al-qissa al-Misriyya al-qasira, Cairo: n.p., 1978. 

  • -----------------------,  Tatawwur  fann al-qissa al-qasira fi Misr min sanat 1910 ila sanat 1933,  Cairo:  Dar al-  Katib  al-`Arabi, 1968. 

  • Oliverius,   J.,   "Der   ideologische  Kampf  in  der  agyptischen Literaturkrit der 50er und 60er Jahre," Archiv Orientalni 52 no. 2 (1984), 115-126. 

  • Al-Qitt, `Abd al-qadir, Fi al-adab al-Misri al-mu`asir Cairo:  Dar Misr li-al-tiba`a, 1955. 

  • Radwan, Noha, “Two Master of Egyptian `Ammiyya Poetry,” JAL XXV no. 2 (2004): 221-243.

  • Al-Ra`i,  `Ali,  Dirasat  fi  al-riwaya  al-Misriyya,  Cairo:   Al-Mu'assassa al-Misriyya al-`amma li- al-ta'lif wa-al-tarjama  wa-al-tiba`a wa-al-nashr, n.d. (1964). 

  • Reid,    Donald,   "Cairo   University   and   the   Orientalists," International Journal of Middle East Studies 19 no.  1 (1987), 77- 102. 

  • Rodenbeck,  John,  "Alexandrian Literature," ARCE  Newsletter  Nos. 156/7 (Wint./Spr. 1992): 1-19.

  • Rushdi,  Rashad,  "Al-fikra  fi  al-masrah  al-Misri,' Al-Masrah 12 (Nov. 1964), 6-7. 

  • --------------, "Hadhihi al-nahda al-masrahiyya," Al-Masrah 6 (June 1964), 7-10. 

  • --------------,  "Al-Majal al-drami  fi  al-masrah  al-Misri,"  Al-Masrah 2 (Feb. 1964), 4-7. 

  • --------------,  "Al-Waqi`  al-drami  fi  al-masrah  al-Misri." Al- Masrah 3 (Mar. 1964), 5-7. 

  • al-Sa`afin,  Ibrahim,  Madrasat al-Ihya'  wa-al-Turath:  Dirasa  fi athar  al-shi`r al-`arabi al-qadim `ala madrasat al-ihya' fi Misr, n.p.: Dar al-Andalus, 1981. 

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  • Sallam,  Muhammad  Zaghlul,  Dirasat fi al-qissa (sic) l-`Arabiyya al-haditha:  usuluha, ittijahatuha,  a`lamuha,  Alexandria:  n.p., 1972.

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  • Shalash, `Ali, Al-Naqd al-sinama'i fi al-sihafa al-Misriyya: nash'atuhu wa-tatawwuruhu, Cairo: Al-Hay'a al-Misriyya al-`amma li-al-kitab, 1986.

  • Al-Sharuni, Yusuf, Namadhij min al-riwaya al-Misriyya, Cairo: n.p., 1977.

  • Shukri, Ghali, Azmat al-jins fi al-qissa al-`Arabiyya, Beirut: n.p., 1963.                             

  • -------------, "Tahaddiyyat al-thaqafa al-Misriyya," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 11 no 5 (1986), 98-112. 

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  • Sulayman, `Aziz, "Lutfi al-Khuli," Al-Masrah 19 (Jul. 1965), 27-30.

  • Al-Suwaylifi (`), Fahthar (`), "Al-`Ara'is wa-al-drama al-Misriyya," Al-Masrah 24 (Dec. 1965), 47-55.

  • Tomiche, Nada, Histoire de la litterature romanesque de l'Egypte moderne, Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1981.

  • `Umar, Mustafa `Ali, Al-Ittijahat al-fikriyya fi al-adab al-masrahi, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1980.

  • Wadi, Taha, Surat al-mar'ah fi 'l-riwayah al-mu`asirah,  Cairo:  Dar al-Ma`arif, 1980, 63-72. 

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IRAQ

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  • Ahmad,  `Abd al-Ilah,  Nash'at al-qissa wa-tatawwuruha fi al-`Iraq, Baghdad, 1979. 

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  • -------------------, "Ja`far al-Khalil and the traditional trend in Iraqi fiction," Gilgamesh 1 (Spring 1990), 45-50. 

  • -------------------,  "The July 1958 Revolution and Iraqi Fiction," Gilgamesh 1 (1989), 74-79. 

  • -------------------,  "Technique  in  Iraqi  Fiction,"  Gilgamesh 2 (1989), 67-73. 

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  • Alwan,  `Ali,  "The Character Poem  in  War  Poetry,"  Gilgamesh  1 (1989), 59-66. 

  • Amin,`Abd al-qadir Hasan,  Al-Qasas fi al-adab al-`Iraqi al-hadith, Baghdad, 1956. 

  • Al- A`raji,  Nazik,  "Mahrajan Baghdad al-thalith li-al-masrah  al-`arabi," Afaq `Arabiyyah 17 no. 3 (Mar. 1992): 154-57. 

  • Barshid,  `Abd  al-Karim,   "Al-Masrah  al-`Iraqi  al-jadid,"  Afaq `Arabiyyah Vol. 17 no. 5 (May

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  • Hamudi, Basim, "The Iraqi War Story," Gilgamesh 3 (1988), 77-82. 

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  • ------------------, Al-Riwaya fi al-`Iraq, Cairo:  Ma`had al-buhuth wal-dirasat al-`Arabiyya, 1973.

  • Al-Jiburi, Jamil, "Aspects of the Humour Press in Iraq," Gilgamesh 1 (1989), 55-57.

  • Kamaleddine,  Abdul  Ilah,  "The Arabian Nights and Iraqi Theatre," Gilgamesh 2 (1990), 59-63. 

  • Al-Khalil,  Ja`far,  Al-Qissah al-`Iraqiyyah qadiman wa-hadithan, Beirut, 1962. 

  • Khayyat,  Jalal,  "Modernist Moves in Arabic Poetry,"  Gilgamesh  2 (1988), 79-82. 

  • Khudayyir,  Diya',  "Al-I`dad fi al-masrah  al-`Iraqi:  Hamlet  al-`Arabi wa-Hamlet al-Denmarki,"

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  • Kubaysi,  Turad,  "Mashru` ru'ya naqdiyyah `Arabiyyah fi al-riwayah al-`Arabiyyah," Al-Adab

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  • Al-Mafraji,  Ahmad,  "The  Development  of  the  Cinema Industry in Iraq," Gilgamesh 1 (1989), 48-54.

  • Al-Musawi,  Muhsin,  Naz`at al-hadatha  fi  al-qissa  al-`Iraqiyya, Baghdad:

  • Muslim,  Sabri,  "Types of hero  in  Iraqi  fiction,"  Gilgamesh  1 (Spring 1990), 57-60. 

  • Al-Nusair, Yaseen, "Iraqi Theatre and the New Experiments," Gilgamesh 2 (1988), 65-68. 

  • -----------------,  "Iraqi  Theatre-goers  in Perspective," Gilgamesh 2 (1989), 77-81. 

  • Obeid,  Mohammed S.,  "The Use of Colour in Modern Iraqi Poetry,"  Gilgamesh  2 (1990), 39-44.

  • Sa`id,  Jamil,  Nazarat  fi  'l-tayyarat  al-adabiyyah al-hadithah fi 'l-`Iraq, Cairo: Ma`had al-dirasat al-`Arabiyyah al-`aliyah, 1954. 

  • Al-Samarra'i, Saliim, "Women Story-writers in Iraq," Gilgamesh 3 (1988), 67-70. 

  • Al-Saqr, Hatim,  "Rafael Patti and Iraqi Poetry Criticism," Gilgamesh 2 (1989), 61-66. 

  • --------------,  "Hadir al-qasida al-`Arabiyya fi al-`Iraq wa-afaq tatawwuriha: rasd wa-taqwim," Al-`Arabi 375 (Feb. 1990), 87-91. 

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  • Al-Tahir, `Ali Jawad, Al-Qasas al-`Iraqi al-mu`asir, Beirut, 1967. 

  • --------------------, Mahmud Ahmad al-Sayyid, ra'id al-qissa al-haditha fi al-`Iraq, Beirut, 1969. 

  • --------------------,  "Arba`  qisas  li-Ahmad Khalaf `aliyah al-tabaqah," Afaq `Arabiyyah Vol. 17 no. 5 (May 1992): 114-17. 
  • Al-Talib,  `Umar Muhammad,  "Bidayaat al-masrahiyya al-`Arabiyya fi  al-`Iraq," Al-masrah 44 (Aug. 1967), 69-82. 
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  • ---------------, "Three Writers and Three Novels," Gilgamesh 2 (1990), 65-72. 
  • Thamir, Fadil, "Al-Riwaya al-`iraqiyya:  min al-riyada ila al-nadaj," Al-`Arabi 379 (June 1990), 116-20. 
  • Tharwat, Yusuf `Abd al-Masih,  " `Al-Miftah' bahth `an al-rumuz wa-al-dalalat," Al-Masrah wa-al-sinama 55-56 (Jul.-Aug. 1968), 21-23. 
  • Yahya, Hasaballa, "Iraqi Theatre in the 1980s," Gilgamesh 2 (1990), 45-52. 
  • Al-Zajaji,  Baqir Jawwad, Al-Riwayah al-`iraqiyyah wa-qadiyyat al-rif, Baghdad: n.p., 1980. 
  • al-Zubaydi,  `Ali,  Al-Masrahiyya al-`Arabiyya fi al-`Iraq,  Cairo:  Ma`had al- buhuth wa-al-dirasat al-`Arabiyya, 1966. 

JORDAN

  • Jordan novel: Al-Mawqif al-adabi 191-2 (Mar.-Apl. 1987): 46-60.
  • Jordan literature: Akhbar al-adab 66, 16 Oct. 1994, 28-29 (Fakhri Salih)
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  • Al-Sa`afin, Ibrahim,  "Riwayat al-Dahk bayn al-madmun al-waqi`i wa-  al-tajrib," Abhath al-
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  • "Thalath  aswat:  Khalil  al-Sawahiri;  Badr  `Abd al-Haqq;  Fakhri Qa`war," Al-Mawqif al-adabi
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  • Yaghi, Hasim, Al-Qissa al-qasira fi Filastin wa-al-Urdunn,  Beirut: Al-Mu`assassa al-`Arabiyya li-
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KUWAIT

  • The Literature of Modern Arabia ed.  Salma Khadra Jayyusi,  London:  Kegan Paul   International, 1988. 
  • The Echo of Kuwaiti Creativity:  a collection of translated short stories,  ed.  Dr. Haifa Al Sanousi, Kuwait: Centre for Research and Studies on Kuwait, 1999.
  • [`UTHMAN, LAYLA] `Ali  `Abd  al-Fattah,  "Surat  al-mar'a fi `alam Layla `Utham al-qasasi," Afaq `Arabiyya 11 (Nov. 1987), 139-41. 
  • "Hawl al-qissa al-`Arabiyya al-qasira," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol.  11  no.  10  (Dec.   1986), 146-49. 
  • `Id,  Husayn,  "Muhawalat  al-khuruj  `an  `alam  al-mar'a  al-taqlidi wa-suwar   ukhra," Afaq Arabiyya 13 no. 9 (Sept. 1988), 159-61. 
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LEBANON

  • `Abd  al-da'im,   Yahya,   "Tayat  al-wa`y  fi  al-riwayah  al-Lubnaniyyah  al- mu`asirah," Fusul 2 no. 2 (Jan.-Mar. 1982):153-72.
  • Aghacy, Samira, "Lebanese Women's Fiction: Urban Identity and the Tyranny of the Past," IJMES Vol. 33 no. 4 (Nov. 2001): 503-23. 
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  • `Atwi,  `Ali Najib, Tatawwur fann al-qissa al-Lubnaniyya al-`Arabiyya ba`d al- harb al-`alamiyya al-thaniyya, Beirut: Dar al-Afaq al-jadida, 1982. 
  • Boullata, Issa J., "Adonis:  towards a new Arab culture," International Journal of Middle East Studies 20 no. 1 (Feb.  1988), 109-12. 
  • Al-Fayturi,  Al-Shadhli,  "Al-Izdiwajiyya al-lughawiyya  wa-al-izdiwajiyya  al-thaqafiyya fi al-watan al-`Arabi," Afaq `Arabiyya 7 (July 1990), 68-75.
  • Review  of Raymond Jabara's `Li tamut Desdemona' Mawaqif 12 (Nov.- Dec.  1970), 145-153. 
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  • Hutayt, `Adnan, "Al-masrah al-Lubnani," Al-Masrah 38 (Feb.  1967), 41-4. 
  • Idris,  Suhayl, Muhadarat `an al-qissah fi Lubnan, Cairo, 1957. 
  • -------------, "Al-qissah al-tarikhiyyah `inda Zaydan," Al-Adab Mar. 1954-6
  • Khuri, Ilyas, "Mulahazat hawla al-masrah al-Lubnani:  Al-Masrah wa-al-khadamat, wa-thawabituhu al-masrahiyya," Mawaqif 27 (Spr. 1974), 81-97. 
  • Makhluf, `Isa, "Kayf tanzur ila l-intaj al-shri al-Lubnani al-rahin`" Fikr wa- fann 24 no. 45 (1987), 76-7. 
  • Naimy,  Nadim,  "The  Mind  and  Thought  of  Khalil Gibran," Journal of Arabic Literature V (1974), 55-71. 
  • Najm,  Muhammad Yusuf,  Al-qissah fi 'l-adab  al-`Arabi  'l-hadith  fi Lubnan, Cairo, 1952; Beirut: Dar al-Thaqafah, 1966. 
  • Nijland,  C.,  Mikha'il  Nu`aymah,  Promotor  of  the  Arabic Literary Revival, Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut, 1975. 
  • Reid, Donald,  The Odyssey of Farah Antun,  Minneapolis:  Bibliotheca Islamica, 1975. 
  • Sa`id, Khalida, "Firqat masrah al-hakawati, min al-nass al-hayy ila al-nass al-muktamil aw masirat al-bahth `an al-dhat," Mawaqif 50 (Spring 1984), 135-164. 
  • Al-Sayigh, Samir, "Ittihamat li-al-masrah al-Lubnani," Mawaqif 46 (Spr.  1983), 155-157. 
  • ----------------,"Mulahazat hawla harakat al-masrah fi Lubnan,"  Mawaqif  13-14 (Jan.-Apl 1971), 192-194. 
  • ----------,"Mulahazat  hawla  harakat  al-masrah  fi  Lubnan," Mawaqif 22 (Jul.-Aug.1972), 7-16. 
  • Siddiq, Muhammad, "Mikhail N`aimy as Novelist,' Al-`Arabiyya Vol.  15 nos 1 & 2 (Spr. & Aut. 1982), 16-33. 

LIBYA

  • `Atiyya, Ahmad Muhammad, "Sha`ir al-nidal al-Libi," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 5-6 (Sept.-Oct. 1971), 67-71.

MAGHRIB

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  • Accad,   Evelyne,   "WOmen's  Voices  from  the  Maghreb,"   Arabic Literature  in North Africa [Mundus Arabicus],  Cambridge,  Mass.: Dar Mahjar, 1982.
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  • Arabic literature in North Africa,  Cambridge,  Mass.:  Dar Mahjar, 1982
  • Enderwitz,  Susanne,  "The  Foreign  Woman in the Francophone North African Novel," in Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature ed.  Allen,  Kilpatrick & de Moor,  London:  Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 116-22. 
  • Germanus,  `Abd  al-karim,  "Al-Adab  fi al-Maghrib," Al-Mawqif al- adabi June 1972, 133-142. 
  • Al-Ja`idi,  Muhammad  `Abdallah,  "Qira'a  fi kitabat al-udaba' al-maghariba," Al-`Arabi 285 ((Aug. 1982), 54-58. 
  • Muddathir,  Ahmed,  Dir arabische Presse in den  Maghreb-Staaten, Hamburg: Deutsche Institut for Afrika-Forschung, 1966. 
  • Sellin,  Eric,  "Obsession  with  the White Page,  the Inability to Communicate,   and  Surface  Aestetics  in  the   development   of  Contemporary  Maghrebian  Fiction;  The  Mal de la Page blanche in Khatibi,  Fares,  and Meddeb," International Journal of Middle East Studies 20 no. 2 (May 1988), 165-173. 
  • Al-Talisi, Khalifa, "Al-Maghrib al-`Arabi wa-harakat al-ibda`,"  Afaq `Arabiyya 14 no. 3 (1989), 117-20.

MOROCCO

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  • An Anthology of Moroccan Short Stories trans.  Malcolm  Williams  & Gavin   Watterson,   Tangier,   Morocco:   King   Fahd  School  of Translation, 1995. 
  • Moroccan poetry, Akhbar al-adab 13 March, 1994; 14 Aug. 1994: 24- 25.
  • Prose poem in Morocco, Akhbar al-adab 433 (28 October, 2001): 32-33.
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  • Aqdad, Muhammad, "Al-riwayah al-maghribiyyah bi=sadad insha' al-qari'," in  Muqaddimat/Prologues, "Le renouveau du roman maghrebin," 13-14 (Aut. 1998):119-25.
  • Al-Bahrawi,  Hasan,  "Wad`iyyat al-ism al-shakhsi fi al-riwaya  al-maghribiyya," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 16 no. 8 (August 1991), 144-49. 
  • Balabdawi,  Ahmad,  "Al-qasida  al-Maghribiyya al-haditha tajawazat  hamm al-ta'sis," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 11 no. 4 (1986), 124-26. 
  • Al-Bakka'a,  Muhammad,  "Al-Riwaya al-Maghribiyya:  al=nass  wa-al- siyaq,"  (Morocco  Conference  on  novel),  Afaq `Arabiyya 6 (Jun. 1988), 128-30. 
  • Barrada,   Muhammad,   "Hawl  al-itar  al-nazari  li-al-riwaya  al-Maghribiyya," Mawaqif 5 (Jul.-Aug. 1969), 168-173. 
  • -------------------, Lughat al-tufulah wa-al-hulm, Rabat: al- Sharikah al-Maghribiyyah fi-al-nashirin al-muttahdin, 1986.
  • El-Outmani,  Ismail,   "Prolegomena  to  the  study  of  the  "other"  Moroccan  Literature," Research in African LiteraturesVol. 28 no. 3 (Fall 1997): 110-21. 
  • Europe: revue litteraire mensuelle "Litterature marocaine" June-July 1979
  • Five Eyes,  ed.  and trans.  Paul Bowles,  Santa Barbara:  Black Sparrow Press,  1979. [short story collection]
  • Hamid,  Lahmidani,  Fi  tanzir  wa-'l-mumarasah:   dirasat  fi  'l-riwayah  al- Maghribiyyah, Al-Dar al-Bayda': Manshurat `Uyun, 1986. 
  • ----------------,  Al-Riwayah al-Maghribiyyah wa-ru'ya 'l-waqi`  al-ijtima`i, Al-Dar al-Bayda': Dar al-thaqafah, 1985. 
  • Ibn Zaydan, `Abd al-Rahman,  As'ilat al-masrah al-`Arabi, Casablanca:  Dar al- Thaqafah, 1987.
  • --------------------------,  Kitab al-takris fi al-masrah al-Maghribi,  Al-Dar Al-bayda': Ifriqiya al-Sharq, 1985. 
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  • Al-Kaghghat, Muhammad, Bunyat al-ta'lif al-masrahi bi al-Maghrib min al-bidayah ila al-thamaninat, Casablanca: Dar al-Thaqafah,  1986.
  • Al-Khatibi,  `Abd  al-kabir,  Le  roman  maghrebin 2nd ed.,  Rabat: Societe Marocaine des Editeurs Reunies, 1979
  • al-Nassaj,  Sayyid  Hamid,  Al-Adab  al-`Arabi  al-mu`asir  fi  'l- Maghrib al-aqsa, Cairo: Dar al-turath al-`Arabi, 1977. 
  • Kanun, `Abdallah, Ahadith `an al-adab al-Maghribi al-hadith, Al-Dar al-bayda': Dar al-thaqafa, 1982. 
  • al-Kharrat,Edwar, "Zawahir fi al-riwayah al-Maghribiyyah," Al-Naqid 30 (Dec. 1990): 18-23.
  • Al-Khatibi, `Abd al-Kabir, "Al-Maghrib,  ufqan li-al-fikr," Mawaqif 32 (Sum. 1975), 14-25. 
  • -------------------------,  Al-Riwaya  al-Maghribiyya,  Ribat:  Al-Markaz al-jami`i li-al-bahth al-`ilmi, 1971. 
  • Khirmash, Muhammad, Al-Naqd al-adabi al-hadith fi al-Maghrib (1900- 1956), Al-Dar al-bayda': Ifriqiya al-Sharq, 1988. 
  • "Al-nass al-shi`ri al-mu`asir fi al-Maghrib," Afaq `Arabiyya 13 no. 3 (Mar. 1988), 134-7. 
  • Rizzitano,  Umberto,  "Il 'racconto' (qissa) nella narrativa  araba  contemporanea  del Marocco,"  in  Atti del III Congresso di Studi Arabi Islamici (Ravello 1966), Napoli, 569-593. 
  • Al-Saghir, Idris, "Muqabala ma`a al-qass al-Maghribi Ibrahim Zayd," Afaq `Arabiyya 12 no. 1 (Jan. 1987), 162-3.
  • Sellin,  Eric,  "Obsession with the White Page,  the  Inability  to Communicate,   and   Surface   Aestetics  in  the  development  of Contemporary Maghrebian Fiction;  The Mal de la  Page  blanche  in Khatibi,  Fares, and Meddeb," International Journal of Middle East Studies 20 no. 2 (May 1988), 165-173. 
  • Al-Shawi,  `Abd al-Qadir,  "Al-Ightirab wa-al-badil:  Mulahazat `an al-shi`r  al-Maghribi  al-hadith,"  Mawaqif 11 (Sept.-Oct.  1970),  147-154. 
  • Al-Siddiqi,  Al-Tayyib,  "Tajriba masrahiyya ra'ida fi al-Maghrib," Al-Mawqif al-adabi, May 1972, 255.258. 
  • Al-Sumayhi,  `Abd al-Qadir,  Nahs'at al-masrah wa-al-riyadah fi al- Maghrib, Rabat: Maktabat al-Ma`arif, 1986. 
  • `Uthman,  Ahmad Hamid, "Al-Masrah al-Maghribi bayn ihtifaliyyat al- turath wa-al-mu`asara," Afaq `Arabiyya 16 no. 1 (1991), 139-41. 

PALESTINE

  • Special issue of BANIPAL 15-16 (Autumn 2002-Spring 2003)
  • Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature ed.  Salma Khadra Jayyusi, New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 
  • `Abbas, Nasr Muhammad Ibrahim,  Al-Fann al-qasasi fi Filastin,  Riyad:  Dar al-`Ulum li-al-tiba`a wa-al-nashr, 1982. 
  • Abu Matar, Ahmad, Al-Riwaya fi al-adab al-Filastini, Beirut:  Al-Mu'assassa al-`Arabiyya li-al-dirasat wa-al-nashr, 1980. 
  • Abu al-Shahab,  Wasif,  Surat al-Filastini fi  al-qissa  al-Filastiniyya  al- mu`asir, Beirut: Dar al-Tali`a, 1977. 
  • d'Afflitto,  Isabella  Camera,  "L'evoluzione della narrativa Palestinese dalla nahdah alla nakbah," Lingua,  Lettura,  Civilta 5,  Perugia:  Universita degli Studi, 1983-4, 83-109. 
  • ---------------------------,  "Narrativa  palestinese  contemporanea:  note  su alcuni authori," Quaderni di studi arabi I (1983), 67-85. 
  •  -----------------------------, "Simbolo e realta in Ghassan Kanafani," Studi in  memoria di Maria Nallino, Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 1984, 33- 40. 
  •  -----------------------------,  "Sulla Narrativa dei  territori  occupati  (al-diffa  wa-al-qita`)," Oriente Moderno V nos.  7-9 (Luglio-Sttembre 1986,  119- 168. 
  • Al-Aqlam special issue, XVI no. 7 (1981).
  • Al-Asad,  Nasr al-din,  Al-Ittijahat al-adabiyya  fi  Filastin  wa-al-urdunn, Cairo, 1957. 
  • Ashrawi,  Hanan Mikha'il,  "The contemporary Palestinian Poetry of Occupation,"  Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 7 no. 3 (1978), 75- . 
  • `Ashur,  Radwa,  Al-Tariq ila 'l-khaymah  al-ukhra:  dirasa  fi  a`mal Ghassan Kanafani, Beirut: Dar Adab, 1977. 
  • Ballas, Sham`un, "Hawla riwayatayn li-Jamal al-Husayni," Al-Karmil 5 (1984), 1- 14. 
  • Bisisu,  `Abd  al-Rahman,  Istilham  al-yanbu`:   al-ma'thurat  al-sha`biyya wa-atharuha  fi  al-bina'  al-fanni  li-al-riwaya  al-Filastiniyya: dirasa naqdiyya, Beirut [`]: n.p., 1983. 
  • Boullata, Kamal & Ghossein, Mirene, The World of Rashid Hussein:  A Palestinian Poet in Exile,  Detroit:  Association of Arab-American University Graduates, 1979. 
  • Boustani, Sobhi, "Le personnage de 'l'etranger' al-gharib dans la litterature palestinienne: Essai sur les oeuvres dde Gh. Kanafani, E. Habibi, et. S. Khalifa," Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 3 no. 2 (July 2000): 235-48.
  • Fahndrich,  Hartmut,  "Andere Prioritaten`  --Weniges  Islamisches  in  einigen palstinenischen Prosawerken," Die Welt des Islams NS XXIII & XXIV (1984),  95- 106. 
  • Ghanayim,  "A Magic Journey:  the admission of Palestinian fiction in Israel to the Arab world," Arabic & Middle Eastern Literatures Vol. 1 no. 2 (1998): 205- 22. 
  • Hafiz, Sabri, "Min al-adab wa-al-adab al-sha`bi al-Filastini," Al-Tali`a Nov.  1970. 
  • ------------, "Ma'sat Filastin fi 'l-riwayah al-`Arabiyyah al-mu`asirah," Al- Adab 4, 1964. 
  • ------------, "Ma'sat Filastin fi adabina al-hadith," Al-Majalla Oct. 1965. 
  • ------------,  "Min qadaya al-adab fi  Filastin  al-muhtalla,"  Al-Aqlam,  Feb. 1972. 
  • ------------,   "Al-Qadiyya   al-Filastiniyya   fi   kitab  wa-film  wa-majalla jinsiyya," Al-Adab, Oct. 1974.
  • ------------, "Shi`r al-ma'sat fi al-ard al-muhtalla," Al-Adab, Mar. 1969. 
  • ------------,  "Al-Uqsusa al-`Arabiyya fi Filastin al-muhtalla," Al-Adab,  Mar.  1972. 
  • Histoires et nouvelles de Palestine tr. Claude Krul, Paris: Le Sycomore, 1979. 
  • Kanafani, Ghassan, Adab al-muqawama fi Filastin al-muhtalla, 1948-1966, Beirut: Manshurat Dar al-Adab, n.d. 
  • -----------------, "Al-`Amal al-fida'i fi ma'zaqihi al-rahin," Mawaqif 8 (Mar.- Apl. 1970), 42-66. 
  • Al-Khatib,  Husam,  "Al-Riwaya al-Filastiniyya:  al-sawt wa-al-sada," Al-`Arabi 379 (June 1990), 110-15. 
  • Klemm, Verena, "Die Vision wird Wirklichkeit--Palastinensiche Autoren reagieren auf die Intifada," Orient 32 (1991): 551-64.
  • Jabra,  Jabra  Ibrahim,  "Mulahazat  `an al-adab wa-al-thawra al-Filastiniyya," Mawaqif 9 (May-June 1970), 17-25. 
  • Mansuur,  Khayri,  Al-Kaff  wa-al-mihraz,  adab  al-muqawama  fi  Filasti al- muhtalla:  Al-diffa wa-al-qita`,  Baghdad:  Dar al-Shu'un al-thaqafiyya wa al- nashra, 1984. 
  • Mansuur,  Waasif.  "Qiraa'a fii al-masrah al-falastiinii." Al-Karmel 18 (1965), 224-37. 
  • Musa, Shams al-din, "Al-Shi`r al-Filastini wa-al-imtihan:  as'ila sa`ba" [Ahmad  Dahbur Interview], "Afaq `Arabiyya 15 no. 2 (Feb.  1990), 131-33. 
  • Sahhab,  Salim,  "Dalalat  al-ramz fi riwaya al-ard al-muhtalla," Al-`Arabi 334 (Sept. 1986), 109-113. 
  • Salih, Fakhri, Fi al-riwayah al-Filastiniyyah, Beirut:  Dar al-kitab al-hadith,  1985. 
  • Siddiq,  Muhammad,  Man is a cause:  political consciousness and the fiction of Ghassan Kanafani, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984. 
  • Samara,  Munya,  "Hiwar  ma`a  al-qass  Yusuf  Damra," Afaq `Arabiyya 8 (August 1985), 122-23.
  • Sbait, Dirgham H., "Poetic and Musical Structure in the Improvised-sung Qasidih of the Palestinian Poet-Singers," Al-`Arabiyya 19 nos. 1 & 2 (1986), 75-108. 
  • Shteir, Rachel B., "Al-Hakawati:  Chameleon with a Voice," Theater Three no.  6 (1989), 47-52. 
  • Slyomovics,  Susan,  "To  put one's fingers in the bleeding wound:  Palestinian Theatre under Israeli Censorship," The Drama Review 35 no.  2  (Summer  1991): 18-38. 
  • Sulayman, Khalid A., Palestine and Modern Arab Poetry, London: Zed Books, 1984. 
  • Taha, Ibrahim, "The Palestinians in Israel: Towards a Minority Literature," Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 3 no. 2 (July 2000): 219-234.
  • Tibawi,  A.L.,  "Visions  of the Return:  The Palestine Arab Refugees in Arabic Poetry and Art," The Middle East Journal 17 no. 5, 507-
  • Al-`Uwaydat, Ya`qub, `Alam al-fikr wa-al-adab fi Filastin, Amman, 1976. 
  • Wadi, Faruq, Thalath `allamat fi 'l-riwayah al-Filastiniyyah: Ghassan Kanafani, Emile Habibi, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, `Akka: Dar al-Aswar, 1981. 
  • Yaghi,  `Abd  al-Rahman,  Fi  'l-adab  al-Filastini qabla 'l-nakbah wa-ba`daha, Kuwait: Sharikat Kazimah li-'l-nashr wa-'l-tawzi` wa-'l-tarjama, 1983. 
  • ---------------------,  Hayat al-adab al-Filastini  al-hadith  awwal al-nahdah hatta 'l-nakbah, Beirut: Al-Maktab al-Tijari, 1968. 
  • Yaghi,  Hasim,  Al-Qissa  al-qasira  fi  Filastin  wa-al-Urdunn,  Beirut:   Al-Mu`assassa al-`Arabiyya li-al-dirasat wa-al-nashr, 1980. 
  • Al-Yusuf, Yusuf, "Ghassan kanafani riwa'iyyan," Al-Ma`rifah 173, 1976. 

SA`UDI ARABIA

  • Saudi novel, in Banipal 20 (Summer 2004).

  • Arebi, Saddeka,  Women & Words in Saudi Arabia,  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1994.

  • Sa`d  al-Bazi`i.Thaqafah  al-sahra':  dirasah fi adab al-jazirah al-`Arabiyyah al-mu`asir.  Al-Riyad: Sharikat al-`Aykan li-al-tiba`ah wa-al-nashr, 1991. pp. 206.
  • ---------------, " Tension in the House: The contemporary poetry of Saudi Arabia," World Literature Today, Spring 2001: 267-74. 
  • The Literature of Modern Arabia ed.  Salma Khadra Jayyusi,  London:  Kegan Paul International, 1988.
  • Short Fiction by Saudi Arabian Women Writers, ed. Aman Attieh, Literature East  & West, Austin, Texas, 1999. 
  • Strika,  Vincenzo,  "Note sulla qissah e riwayah saudiana," Oriente Moderno LIX  (1979), 677-683. 
  • Voices of Change:  Short Stories by Saudi Arabic  Women  Writers  ed.  Abubaker  Bagader,  Ava M.  Heinrichsdorff,  Deborah S.  Akers, Colorado Springs:  Lynne  Riner Publishers, 1998. 

SPAIN, see ANDALUS                                

 

SUDAN

  • Isma`il,  `Izz al-din, "Al-Masrah al-shi`ri fi al-Sudan:  "Al-Malik Nimr"," Al- Masrah 66 (Oct. 1969), 2-10; "Kharab Suba," Al-Masrah 67 (Nov. 1969), 28-35. 
  • Karim,  Samih,  "Mulahazat hawla al-masrah al-shi`ri fi al-Sudan," Al-Masrah 68 (Dec. 1969), 93-95. 
  • El-Nour, Eiman, "The Development of Contemporary Literature in Sudan," Research in African Literatures Vol. 28 no. 3 (Fall 1997): 141-149. 
  • Salih,  Nidal,  "Bayn  shi`riyyat al-nass wa-dalalat al-khatab," Akhbar al-adab 194 (30 Mar. 1997): 14-15. [about Amir Taj al-Sirr]
  • Sallam, Muhammad Zaghlul, Al-Qissa fi al-adab al-Sudani al-hadith, Cairo, 1970. 
  • al-Sawi, Mustafa, "Sawt jadid fi al-qissah al-qasirah al-Sudaniyyah [Ahmad Hamd al-Malik]," Akhbar al-adab 204 (8 Jun. 1997): 15. 
  • ----------------,  "Al-Riwayah al-Sudaniyyah al-tarkh wa-al-waqi`," Akhbar  al- adab 232 (21 Dec. 1997): 12-13.
  • Al-Shush, Muhammad Ibrahim, Adab wa-Udaba', Khartum:  Jami`at Khartum,  Dar al- Tiba`a, 1973.
  • --------------------------,  Al-Mu'aththarat al-sha`biyya al-qawmiyyya fi al-fann al-qasasi al-riwa'i fi al-Sudan, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1988. 
  • --------------------------,  Al-Shi`r al-hadith fi al-Sudan Khartum:  Qism  al- ta'lif wa-al-nashr, Univ. of Khartoum, 1962 & 1971. 
  • --------------------------,  Some  Background  Notes on Modern Sudanese Poetry, Khartoum: The National Coiuncil for Letters and Arts, n.d. 
  • --------------------------,  "Al-Tayyib Salih wa-usturat Bandar Shah," Al-Naqid 1 November 1988. 

SYRIA

  • Short Story in Syria, Al-Mawqif al-adabi 197-9 (Sept.-Nov. 1987)
  • Short Story in Syria, Akhbar al-adab 112 (3 Sept. 1995): 18-25.
  • Drama in Syria: Al-Mawqif al-adabi 134 (June 1982); 178-9 (Feb.- Mar. 1986); 189 (June 1987)
  • Literature of the 1970s in Syria, al-Ma`rifah 296-7 (Octo. Nov.  1986). 
  • Abu  Shanab,  `Adil,  Safahat  majhulah  fi  ta'tirkh  al-qissah  al-suriyyah, Damascus, 1974. 
  • Alexan, John, "Nazra ila al-masrah al-qawmi fi Suriya 1959-1969," Al-Masrah 70 (Feb. 1970), 38-42.
  • Baldissera,  Eros,  "La formation du recit moderne en Syrie," Quaderni di studi arabi 5-6 (1987-88), 83-90.
  • ----------------,  "Al primordi del racconto siriano  moderno:  `Ali  Khuluqi," Quaderni di Studi Arabi (Seminario di Letteratura arab-Universita di Venezia), I, 1983, 41-52. 
  • --------------,  "Fu'ad  as-Sayeb e la nascita del racconto siriano moderno,  "Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 44 (1984), 451-482.
  • --------------,  "La  lega  degli  scrittori siriani," in Scritti in memoria di Paolo Minganti (Annali della Facolta di Scienze  Politiche,  Universita  degli studi di Cagliari, Vol. IX (1983), 55-69. 
  • -------------,  "La narrativa femminile in Siria," Quaderni di studi  arabi  2 (1984), 87-106. 
  • Ceccato, Rosella Dorigo, " Il teatro contemporaneo in Siria:  L'impegno di Sa`d Allah Wannus,' Quaderni di studi arabi 1 (1983), 53-65. 
  • -----------------------, "Il teatro d'ombre a Damasco," Quaderni di studi arabi 2 (1984), 127-154. 
  • --------------------,  Pagine di teatro siriano,  Venice:  Quaderni di studi arabi, Studi e testi, 1983.
  • Cooke, Miriam, "Living in Truth," in Tradition, Modernity, and Post-Modernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000, pp. 203-21.
  • -------------, "Ghassan al-Jaba`I: prison literature in Syria after 190," World Literature Today, Spring 2001: 237-45.
  • Mardini, `Adnan, "Al-Ma'sat al-mutafa'il `ala al-masrah al-Suri," Al-Masrah wa-al-sinama 52 (Apl. 1968), 10-12. 
  • Rosella Dorigo, Quaderni di studi arabi, Venezia, 1983, 107-112. 
  • Al-Faysal,  Samar Ruhi, Malamih fi al-riwayah al-Suriyyah, Damascus:  Manshurat ittihad kuttab al-`Arab, 1979.
  • Gouryh,  Admer,  "The fictional world of Walid Ikhlasi,  World Literature Today Vol. 58 (1964), 23-7. 
  • -------------, "Recent Trends in Syrian Drama," World Literature Today Vol.  60 no. 2 (Spring 1986), 216-221. 
  • Ibn Dhurayl, `Adnan, Adab al-qissah fi Suriyya, Damascus: Manshurat Dar al-Fann al-hadith al-`alami, n.d.
  • -------------------, Al-Riwayah al-`Arabiyyah al-Suriyyah, Damascus, 1973. 
  • `Ismat,  Riyad,  "Buq`at daw':  dirasat tatbiqiyya fi al-masrah al-`arabi:  al-masrah al-Suri," tr.  "Istifta'  hawla  waqi`  al-harakat  al-masrahiyya  fi Suriyya," Al-Mawqif al-adabi, May 1972, 57-88. 
  • Kahf, Mohja, "The Silences of Contemporary Syrian Literature," , World Literature Today, Spring 2001: 225-36.
  • Al-Kassan,  Jean,  "Mahrajan Dimashq li-al-funun al-Masrahiyya," Al-Mawqif  al-adabi, May 1972, 259- .
  • Al-Kayali, Sami, Al-Adab al-`Arabi 'l-mu`asir fi Suriyya 1850-1950, Cairo:  Dar al-Ma`arif, 1968.
  • Al-Khatib,  Husam,  "Al-naz`a al-insaniyya fi al-shi`r al-Suriyya  al-mu`asir," Al-Mawqif al-adabi Oct.-Nov.1972, 217-223. 
  • -----------------,  Al-riwayah al-Suriyyah fi marhalat al-nuhud, Cairo:  Ma`had al-buhuth wa-'l-dirasat al-`Arabiyyah, 1975.
  • ----------------, Riwayat taht al-majhar:  dirasat nuhud al-riwayah fi Suriyya: Damascus: Manshurat ittihad al-kuttab al-`Arab, 1983. 
  • ----------------, Subul al-mu'aththirat al-ajnabiyyah wa-ashkaluha  fi 'l-qissah al-Suriyyah, Cairo, 1972.
  • Luqa,  Iskandar, Al-Harakah al-adabiyyah fi Dimashq 1800-1917, Damascus:  n.p., 1976. 
  • "Masrah al-shawk," "Masrah al-sha`b bi-Halab," "Al-Masrah al-qawmi," "Al-Masrah al-jawwal," "Li-madha firqat alpmasrah`" "Masrah al-qahwa," Al-Mawqif al-adabi  May 1972, 227-254. 
  • Moosa,  Matti,  "Naqqash and the Rise of the Native  Arab  Theatre  in  Syria," Journal of Arabic Literature III (1972), 106-117. 
  • Mustafa,  Shakir,  Al-qissa  fi Suriyya hatta al-harb al-`alamiyya al-thaniyya,  Cairo, 1957. 
  • Ramadan,  Khalid `Abd al-Latif,  Masrah Sa`dallah Wannus, Kuwait:  Sharikat al- Manabir li-al-nashr, 1984. 
  • Raihanova. Bayan, "The Contemporary Syurian Novel," in Philosophy and Arts in the Islamic World, Proceedings of the 18th Congress of Union europeene des arabisants et islamisants, Leuven (1998),:165-74.
  • ----------------,  "On the Question of  Tradition  in  Modern  Syurian  Prose," Proceedings  of  the  14th  Congress  of the Union europeene des arabisants et islamisants ed. A. Fodor, Budapest (1995): 195-202. 
  • ----------------,  "Some Tendencies in the development of Syrian novel  of  the fifties  and sixties," Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Union europeene des arabisants et islamisants, St. Petersburg (1997):219-28. 
  • al-Riyahi, Muhammad, "Al-Riwayah al-Suriyyah fi itar `alaqah al-tab`iyyah," al- Ma`rifah 285 (Nov. 1985): 52-69. 
  • al-Sa`afin,  Ibrahim,  Tatawwur al-riwaya al-`arabiyya al-haditha fi bilad  al- Sham, Baghdad: Manshurat Wizarat al-Thaqafa wa-al-i`lam, 1980. 
  • Sadgrove, Philip C., "The Syrian Arab Theatre after Marun al-Naqqash (the 1850s and the 1860s), Archiv Orientalni 55 (1987), 271-83. 
  • Sa`i,  Ahmad Bassam,  Harakat al-shi`r al-hadith min khilal a`lamihi fi Suriya, Damascus: Dar al-Ma'mun, 1978. 
  • Salih, Fakhri, "Al-Qissa al-qasira fi bilad al-Sham:  tahawwulat naw`iyya," Al-`Arabi 377 (Apl. 1990), 116-21. 
  • Sammaq,  Faysal,  Al-Riwaya al-Suriyya:  nash'atuha,  tatawwuruha, mahdahibuha, Damascus: Matabi` al-Idara al-Siyasiyya, 1984.
  • Stehli,  Ulrike,  Die Darstellung des Oktoberkrieges von 1973 in der  syrischen Erzahlliteratur, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988. 
  • Subhi, Muhyi al-din, "Nusus `Arabiyya min al-sittinat," Al-Mawqif al-adabi, May 1972), 17-28. 
  • `Ursan,  `Ali `Aqla,  "Qissat mahrajan Dimashq li-al-funun al-masrahiyya,"  Al-Mawqif al-adabi 2 (June 1971), 135-146. 
  • `Urudki, Badr al-din, "Hawla mahrajanat Dimashq li-al-funun al-masrahiyya," Al-Mawqif al-adabi 2 (June 1971), 135-146. 
  • -------------------,  "Al-Tajriba  al-masrahiyya  fi  Suriyya,"  Al-Mawqif al-adabi, May 1972), 5-16. 
  • `Uways, Salah, "Hawla al-masrah al-Suri, " Al-Masrah 38 (Feb,.  1967), 36-40. 

TUNISIA

  • Tunisian novel:  Al-Mawqif al-adabi 173-4 (Sept.-Oct.  1985):  17-33. 
  • Tunisian novel:  Akhbar al-adab 158 (21 July 1996):  14-15. 
  • Tunisian literature: Akhbar al-adab 278 (8 Nov.  1998)
  • Arabic literature in North Africa, Cambridge, Mass.: Dar Mahjar,   1982
  • Short Story in Tunisia, Al-Ma`rifah 332 (May 1991), 64-92.
  • Muqaddimat/Prologues, "Le renouveau du roman maghrebin," 13-14 (Aut. 1998).  
  • Abu  Ghanima,  "Muliff kamil `an mahrajan Qartaj," Al-Mawqif al-adabi Feb.-Mar. 1973, 211-216.
  • Amri, Mekki, Dir politische Lyrik des Abu'l Qasim as-Sabbi  1909-1934: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der modernen tunesischen  Literatur, Kiel diss., 1984. 
  • `Ashur,  Muhammad  al-Fadil,  Al-Haraka  al-fikriyya  wa-al-adabiyya  fi Tunis,  Tunis, 1972. 
  • `Ashur,  Muhammad  al-Fadil,  Al-Harakah al-fikriyyah wa-'l-adabiyyah fi Tunis, Tunis, 1972. 
  • Bin Bilqasim,  N.  "Muhammad al-Marzuqi the novelist," Al-Fikr 29  no.  6  (May 1984), 92-97. 
  • Bin Diyaf, M.  "A look at the novel `A'isha and its characters," Al-fikr 29 no. 6 (May 1984), 81-90.
  • R.Y. Ebeid & M.J.L.  Young, "Two Short Stories from Tunisia," Journal of Arabic Literature VII (1976), 45-52. 
  • Al-Fayturi,  Al-Shadhli,  "Al-Izdiwajiyya  al-lughawiyya  wa-al-izdiwajiyya al- thaqafiyya fi al-watan al-`Arabi," Afaq `Arabiyya 7 (July 1990), 68-75. 
  • Fontaine, Jean, Aspects de la litterature tunisienne 1975-1983, Tunis: Editions RASM, 1985. 
  • --------------, Ecrivaines tunisiennes, Tunis: Le gai savoir, 1990.
  • --------------,  "The Tunisian Literary Scene,  Research on African LIteratures Vol. 28 no. 3 (Fall 1997): 73-84. 
  • --------------,  Vingt ans de litterature tunisienne 1956-1975,  Tunis:  Maison  Tunisienne de l`edition, 1977. 
  • Granara,  William,  "On  Being Colonized in Early Modern Tunisian Fiction:  Two Stories," Al-`Arabiyya Vol. 29 (1996): 23-43. 
  • Ghazi, Ferid, Le roman et la nouvelle en Tunisie,  Tunis:  Maison Tunisienne de l'edition, 1970. 
  • Ibn Salama,  al-Bashi`,  "Al-Adab al-Tunisi wa-al-thawra al-technologiyya," Al-Mawqif al-adabi April 1973, 95-102. 
  • Ibrahim,  Radwan, Al-Ta`rif bi-'l-adab al-Tunisi, Tunis:  Dar al-`Arabiyyah li- 'l-kitab, 1977
  • Al-Jabiri,  Muhammad Salih,  Al-Qissah al-Tunisiyyah;  nash'atuha wa-ruwwaduha, Tunis, 1975. 
  • Al-Jabiri,  Muhammad  Salih,  Al-qissa  al-tunisiyya,  nash'atuha wa-ruwwaduha,  Tunis: Mu'assassat `Abd al-Karim ibn `Abdallah, 1975. 
  • -------------,  "Tunisia in the view of the Algerian poets," Al-Fikr 29  no.  6 (May 1984), 123-129. 
  • "Jil al-thamaninat fi al-qissa al-tunisiyya," Afaq `Arabiyya  Vol.  11  no.  10 (Dec. 1986), 130-31.
  • Omri, Mohamed-Salah, “History, Literature, and Settler Colonialism in North Africa,” Modern    Language Quarterly Vol. 66,no. 3 (Sept. 2005): 273-298.
  • Ostle,  Robin,  "Mahmud al-Mas`adi and Tunisia's `Lost Generation'," Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 8 (1977), 153-66. 
  • Sellin, Eric, "Obsession with the White Page, the Inability to Communicate, and Surface  Aestetics in the development of Contemporary Maghrebian Fiction;  The Mal de la Page blanche in Khatibi,  Fares,  and Meddeb," International Journal of Middle East Studies 20 no. 2 (May 1988), 165-173. 
  • Shiri, Sonia, "Voices of the Marginalized in Tunisian Literature," Research on African LIteratures Vol. 28 no. 3 (Fall 1997): 56-72.
  • Skarzynska-Bochenska,  Krystyna,  "La poesie contemporaine del la Tunisie entre la tradition et la modernite," Rocznik Orientalistyczny XLIII (!984): 139-46. 
  • --------------------------,   "Le  reflet  de  l-Islam  dans   la   poesie tunisienne contemporaine," Die Welt des Islams NS XXIII/XXIV (1984): 182-97.
  • Stasolla,  Maria Giovanna, "Una rassegna della letteratura tunisina dal 1956 al 1975," Oriente Moderno LVIII (1978), 597-601. 
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

  • The Literature of Modern Arabia ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, London: Kegan Paul International, 1988.
  • Husayn, Kamil Yusuf, "Udaba' al-Imarat: limadha yaktubuna`"Afaq `Arabiyya 9 (Sept. 1085), 124-25.
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YEMEN

  • `Abdallah, Ahmad Yasin, Yemeni literature, Akhbar al-adab 164 (1  Sept. 1996): 15.
  •  Al-Saaidi, "Salma and Eveline: a comparative study,"   pp. 193-205.
  • (about `Abd al-Wali, Muhammad]