Mara Naaman

“Teaching New Egyptian Writing: Experimental Style and the Undergraduate Reader,” Teaching Arabic Literature Through Translation, ed. Michelle Hartman (Modern Language Association, 2018).

“Landscapes of Iraqi Poetry: Reconfiguring the Image of Iraq in the Arabic (and American) Lyric Canon,” Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 43, No. 2-3 (Brill 2012).

“Invisible Ethnic: The Arab American Novels of Mona Simpson,” The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English, ed. Nouri Gana (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

“Disciplinary Divergences: Problematizing the Field of Arabic Literature,” Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Penn State Press, 2011).

“The Anti-Romance Antidote: Revisiting Allegories of the Nation,” Transforming Loss into Beauty: Collected Works in Memory of Magda al-Nowaihi, eds. Marle Hammond and Dana Sajdi (Cairo: AUC Press, 2008).

“Sonallah Ibrahim’s Amrikanli: Intra-Imperial Investigations,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, Wanderlust: Travel Literature, Vol. 26 (AUC Press, Spring 2006).

Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive by Hala Halim, Reviewed in The International Journal of Middle East Studies (Spring 2015).

Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora by Syrine Hout, Reviewed in Postcolonial Text (Winter 2014).

Cultural Criticism in Egyptian Women’s Writing by Caroline Seymour-Jorn, Reviewed in Review of Middle East Studies 46:2 (Winter 2012).

Remaking the Modern: Space. Relocation, and the Politics of Identity by Farha Ghannam, Reviewed in Arab Studies Journal (ASJ), Special Issue dealing with Space and the Middle East, (Fall 2006).

Post-Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing, edited by Munir Akash and Khaled Mattawa, Reviewed in The Journal of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. (MELUS), Special Issue on Arab Americans (Winter 2006).

Scheherazade’s Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing, edited by Susan M. Darraj, Reviewed in The Journal of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. (MELUS), Special Issue on Arab Americans (Winter 2006).