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  • Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Colonists, Imperialism, Propaganda, Cold War (1945-1989), Middle East, Area studies, Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Palestine, Ghassan Kanafani, Arthur Koestler, Afro-Asian Writers, Arabic, Settler colonialism, Cold War, Middle Eastern studies, Faulkner

  • Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ's Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Arabic literature, African literature, Cold War (1945-1989), Arabian nights
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Magazine, novel, Surveillance, CIA, Cold War, Literatures of empire, 1001 Nights, Modernism

  • "In a Language That Was Not His Own": On Ahlām Mustaghānamī's Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2008
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Arabic literature, French literature, French-speaking countries, Algeria, Translating and interpreting, Imperialism, Nationalism, Colonists
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Albert Memmi, metropole, Arab women writers, Francophone literature, Translation, Colonialism, Settler colonialism

  • “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67) (complete)

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Cold War (1945-1989), Spying, Area studies, Arabic literature, Little magazines, Italy--Rome, Rome (Empire)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Beirut, cairo, Empire, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Cold War, Surveillance studies, Global modernism, Rome

  • From Gardens of Knowledge to Ezbekiyya after Midnight: The Novel and the Arabic Press from Beirut to Cairo, 1870-1892

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Arabic literature, Gardens, History, Fiction, Mediterranean Region, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    encyclopedias, Beirut, cairo, Eden, Nile, Garden history, History of the novel, Migration, Mediterranean studies

  • Cartography and Clandestinité in Leïla Sebbar’s Shérazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2006
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    French-speaking countries, Area studies, Spying, Cartography, Literature, Postcolonialism, Algeria, Geography, France--Paris
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    production of space, Francophone studies, Surveillance studies, Cartography and literature, Migration, Paris

  • "In a Language That Was Not His Own": On Ahlām Mustaghānamī's Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2008
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    French literature, French-speaking countries, Arabic literature, Colonists, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Translating and interpreting, Algeria
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Beur, Francophone literature, Settler colonialism, Postcolonial French literature, Translation

  • "Narrating the Nahda: The Syrian Protestant College, al-Muqtataf, and the Rise of Jurji Zaydan," AUB: 150 Years

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Arabic literature, Social history, Mediterranean Region, Area studies, Atlantic Ocean Region, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    salons, cairo, Beirut, Migration, Mediterranean studies, Atlantic history

  • "The Story of Zahra and Its Critics: Feminism and Agency at War," Arabic Literature for the Classroom

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Arabic literature, Feminism, Subjectivity, Critical pedagogy
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Rape, Lebanese civil war, Theories of subjectivity, Agency

  • "'A Fabrication in Fabrication': Ya'qub Sarruf's *Fatat Misr* and the Fiction of Finance in Colonial Egypt"

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Arabic literature, Imperialism, Finance, Sociology, Capitalism, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    cairo, Suez, indian ocean, stock market, Colonialism, Sociology of finance, History of capitalism, Maritime history

  • Narrative and the Reading Public in 1870s Beirut

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2009
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Arabic literature, Capitalism, History, Fiction, Mediterranean Region, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Beirut, Nahda, seriality, port cities, shipping, History of capitalism, History of the novel, Long 19th century, Mediterranean studies

  • "Cairo and the Cultural Cold War for Afro-Asia," Routledge Handbook to the Global Sixties

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Cold War (1945-1989), Arabic literature, Spying, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    cairo, Bandung, Cold War, Surveillance studies, Afro-Asia, Global modernism

  • Cold War in the Arabic Press: Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962–67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Cold War (1945-1989), Arabic literature, Capitalism, History, Spying, Area studies, Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Beirut, Cold War, History of capitalism, Surveillance studies, Modern Arabic literature

  • “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67)

    Author(s):
    Elizabeth M. Holt
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention
    Subject(s):
    Cold War (1945-1989), Arabic literature, Literature, Modern, Capitalism, History, Capitalism--Social aspects, Culture--Economic aspects
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Arabic press history, Beirut, Cold War, Modern Arabic literature, History of capitalism, Culture and capitalism

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