Love and sexuality in modern Arabic literature/ edited by Roger Allen, Hilary Kilpatrick and Ed de Moor

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-256) and index.

Introduction: On love and sexuality in modern Arabic literature / Hilary Kilpatrick -- Love and the birth of modern Arabic literature / Boutros Hallaq -- The figure of the lover in popular Arabic drama of the early twentieth century / Rosella Dorigo Ceccato -- The Romantic imagination and the female ideal / Robin Ostle -- Love and beyond in Mahjar literature / Cornelis Nijland -- The four ages of Ḥusayn Tawfīq : love and sexuality in the novels of Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm / Paul Starkey -- Erotic awareness in the early Egyptian short story / Ed de Moor The Arabic short story and the status of women / Roger Allen -- Love and the mechanisms of power : Kamāl ʻAbd al-Jawwād and Saʻīd al-Juhaynī / Richard van Leeuwen -- Fathers and husbands : tyrants and victims in some autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works from the Arab World / Hartmut Fähndrich -- The foreign woman in the Francophone North African novel / Susanne Enderwitz -- The function of sexual passages in some Egyptian novels of the 1980s / Stephan Guth -- Distant echoes of love in the narrative work of Fuʾād al-Tikirlī / Wiebke Walther -- Sexuality in Jabra's novel, The Search for Walid Masud / Mattityahu Peled -- Women's narrative in modern Arabic literature : a typology / Sabry Hafez -- The development of women's political consciousness in the short stories of the Kuwaiti author Laylā al-ʻUthmān / Angelika Rahmer -- Death and desire in Iraqi war literature / Miriam Cooke -- Nizar Qabbanis autobiography : images of sexuality, death and poetry / Stefan Wild -- Love and the body in modern Arabic poetry / Asʻad E. Khairallah.