Description: The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions encompasses the genesis of the Arabic novel in the second half of the nineteenth century and its development to the present in every Arab country, as well as Arab immigrant writing in many languages around the world.
Review Quotes: "[T]he Handbook provides valuable insights into an issue that is undoubtedly one of the most challenging to deal with in the history of Arab/ic literature." -- Francesca Bellino, Annali, Sezione Orientale
"Waïl Hassan's Oxford Handbook of Arabic Novelistic Traditions is a great addition to the fields of Arabic and comparative literatures. It will be a useful reference for students and more advanced scholars alike... [it] arrives to solicitously build a new, more inclusive, and more global perspective on Arabic novels. This move is more than welcome." --Journal of Arabic Literature