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A forum for the academic study of all Middle Eastern Literatures (broadly conceived) from Late Antiquity until the present. Critical work welcome!

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🎺deadline approaching (15 September)🎺: submit abstracts for special issue on Translating and Publishing Turkish Literature in the Anglosphere @MELiteratures
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Hannah Scott Deuchar reviews Rana Issa's _The modern arabic bible_ from @EdinburghUP and finds its "extensive work in Christian missionary archives [offers] enjoyable and often highly original readings" of key Arabic literary figures doi.org/10.1080/147526…
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We are pleased to present issue 26.2, our first regular issue since the start of what we now call the Gaza Genocide began. The issue is dedicated to all of the authors, the university teachers and researchers, and journalists we have lost since 7 Oct 2023. doi.org/10.1080/147526…
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Pleased to 📣 MEL 26.1, on the Middle East's _Fragile Ecologies_ edited by #CharisOlszok Articles explore texts that "have long haunted the tales of energy-driven progress...as stark reminders that the burden of responsibility for anthropogenic climate change is uneven" 🧵
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In "Climate change & the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq" Teresa Pepe reads the "representation of the climate crisis in post-2011 Arabic SF, [as an intersection] with 🌍 climate fiction" doi.org/10.1080/147526…
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In her "Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction" @MerveTabur7 reads how myth and legend "overlap in Turkish climate fiction to address the multiscalar complexities of climate change" doi.org/10.1080/147526…
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In "Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film"@MayaAghasi explores texts that show "Rather than war, conflict, or sectarian belonging, the texts assert that it is ecological degradation that is a threat to Lebanon" doi.org/10.1080/147526…
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