Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 26 Product design

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 26 Product designThis issue of Alif is devoted to travel and travel writing in the broadest cross cultural sense and focuses on what Mahmoud Manzalauoui has termed indigenes, visitants, sojourners, and habitants or metics, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East. It is a tribute to Middle East scholar and acclaimed travel writer John Rodenbeck. Essays in this issue take a variety of approaches, ranging from the historical to the analytical and philosophical.

and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of  'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time

Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Sohag region of Upper Egypt from as early as the fourth century until the present day

extensive studies have been conducted over the past decades to extract these products and to determine their biological functions

The Guide presents the rich

Ernest Hemingway

and the struggle to build the 'Godly Nation'

After a short summary of the soil health concern

the authors describe invasive species as a ‘wicked problem’

poems which preoccupied him throughout his scholarly life

They can become building blocks for the microbial cells or enter different catabolic pathways

First in a series designed to situate and explain the films of French directors

Spain and Italy – framed by an inclusive overview of the ‘noir phenomenon’