Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of the most recent research trends and directions in the humanities
This issue of Alif is dedicated to efforts to redefine and reorient the humanities in light of global institutional and intellectual realities. "Mapping" is construed in several ways: the more literal meaning of geographical "reorientation" in the sense of efforts to redefine the relationship between global north and south, and between Western and non-Western intellectual traditions. It also refers to the remapping of the modern university by interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in the humanities that brings it to new shores such as the digital humanities and medical humanities. Essays map out ways for the humanities to better engage the extra-academic pressures shaping the modern university as it remains true to its own best long-standing goals and values. Editorial Board (alphabetically by last name):- Omaima Abou Bakr (Cairo University)
Saad Albazei (King Saud University)
Gaber Asfour (Cairo University)
Mohammed Berrada (University of Mohamed V) Ira Dworkin (Texas A&M University)
Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London)
Sabry Hafez (SOAS, University of London)
Richard Jacquemond (Aix Marseille University)
Céza Kassem-Draz (AUC and Cairo University)
As'ad Khairallah (American University of Beirut)
Andrew N. Rubin (University of Texas at Dallas)
Randa Sabry (Cairo University)
Doris Enright-Clark Shoukri (AUC)
Hoda Wasfi (Ain Shams University)
- Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University, Egypt
Tamer Amin, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Brian James Baer, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
Abdesslam Benabdelali, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Claire Gallien, University Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
Nadia Hashish, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Naglaa Saad Hassan, Fayoum University, Egypt
Hassan Hilmy, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco
Samia Al Hodathy, Paris Nanterre University, France
Hala Kamal, Cairo University, Egypt
David Konstan, New York University, USA
Hossam Nayel, the Academy of Arts, Cairo, Egypt
Antonio Pacifico, Oriental University Institute, Naples, Italy
Yasmine Sweed, MSA University, Cairo, Egypt
Levi Thompson, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Youssef Yacoubi, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
Brief description: Ferial Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo and editor of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. She has translated modern Arabic poetry and fiction to English and critical theory from English and French to Arabic.