Cairo fieldwork: magical dualisms
Entre scribes et écrivains : Le Champ littéraire dans l'Egypte contemporaine (Between Scribes and Writers: The Literary Field in Contemporary Egypt), Richard Jacquemond, Paris: Actes sud, 2003 pp345

Empire against Iraq
L'Empire contra l'Irak (The Empire against Iraq), Paris: Le Monde diplomatique Manière de voir 67, January -- February 2003

Retrospect and prospects
Conclusion to Richard Jacquemond, Entre scribes et écrivains: Le Champ littéraire dans l'Egypte contemporaine, translated by David Tresilian

The past, and future, of Iraq
A History of Iraq, Charles Tripp, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. pp311

Close encounters
Egyptian Encounters, Cairo Papers in Social Science, Cairo: AUC Press, Volume 23, Number 3, 2003. pp171

A life in writing
Walking through Fire: A Life of Nawal El-Saadawi, Nawal El-Saadawi, Trans. Sherif Hetata, Cape Town: David Philip & London and New York: Zed Books, 2002. pp251

At a glance
A shorthand guide to recent publications compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani