Middle East and North Africa
A guide to resources available through the LCC Library and online for research on the modern Middle East and North Africa.
Resources at LCC Library
The Routledge encyclopedia of Arabic literatureCall Number: REF PJ7510 .R76 2010
Beirut 39 by Call Number: PJ7694.E1 B45 2010
Night and horses and the desert: an anthology of classical Arabic literatureCall Number: PJ7694.E1 N54 2000
Liberating Shahrazad: feminism, postcolonialism, and Islam by Call Number: PJ7519.W66 G384 2007
Words without borders: the world through the eyes of writers by Call Number: PN6019 .W67 2007
Arab women's lives retold: exploring identity through writing by Call Number: CT3748 .A73 2007
Inclined to speak: contemporary Arab American poetry by Call Number: PS591.A7 I53 2008 (also ebook)
Subject Headings
Use these links to search in the LCC Library catalog by Subject Heading:
Arabic fiction
Arabic literature -- History and criticism
Arabic poetry
Middle East in literature
Short stories, Arabic
Arab Poetry
The Iraqi Nights by Call Number: PJ7846.I392 L3913 2014
Abundance from the Desert by Call Number: PJ7543 .F48 2011
Online Resources
Below are two websites with information about contemporary Arab writers. There are also many excellent biographical articles on Wikipedia.
Al-Bab on Arab literature An overview of Arab literature with examples from classical, folk, and modern genres.
Radius of Arab-American Writers A literary organization dedicated to supporting creative and scholarly writing by Arab-Americans.
Cairo bookstore
Multivolume sets of books in Arabic in Cairo bookstore. Flickr Commons, Photo by martynsmith500.