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Illustrations courtesy of International Commitee of the Red Cross
"Folk drawings and tales", Cairo, 1996
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Poetics of hyphenation
Qabr Ibn 'Arabi. Aya': Mawaqif Yale a-tis'a wal-tis'un (The Tomb of Ibn 'Arabi. Aya': The 99 Stations of Yale) Abdelwahab Meddeb, Trans. Mohamed Bennis. Cairo: Supreme Council of Culture, 1999. pp127
Tombeau d'Ibn Arabi, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Paris: No‘l Blandin, 1987/1990. pp91
Les 99 stations de Yale, Abdelwahab Meddeb, dessins de Mehdi Qotbi. Paris: Fata Morgana, 1995. pp50
A farewell to the intellectuals
Intellectuals, Paul Johnson, London: Phoenix Press 2000. pp385
Le Débat, No. 110, May -- August 2000. Paris: Gallimard.
L'Esprit, Splendeurs et misères de la vie intellectuelle, No. 3 -- 4, March -- April 2000; No. 5, May 2000, Paris.
Arab women going public
Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating female public space in Islamic/ate Societies, Ed. Asma Afsaruddin, Boston: Harvard
University Press, 1999. pp222
At a glance
A shorthand guide to the month compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani
To the editor
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A useful summary
