Alif 40: Mapping New Directions in the Humanities

An interdisciplinary exploration of the most recent research trends and directions in the humanitiesThis issue of Alif is dedicated to efforts to redefine and reorient the humanities in light of global institutional and intellectual realities. "Mapping" is construed in several ways: the more literal meaning of geographical "reorientation" in the sense of efforts to redefine the relationship between global north and south, and between Western and non-Western intellectual traditions. It also refers to the remapping of the modern university by interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in the humanities that brings it to new shores such as the digital humanities and medical humanities. Essays map out ways for the humanities to better engage the extra-academic pressures shaping the modern university as it remains true to its own best long-standing goals and values.Editorial Board (alphabetically by last name): Omaima Abou Bakr (Cairo University)Saad Albazei (King Saud University)Gaber Asfour (Cairo University)Mohammed Berrada (University of Mohamed V) Ira Dworkin (Texas A&M University)Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London) Sabry Hafez (SOAS, University of London) Richard Jacquemond (Aix Marseille University) Céza Kassem-Draz (AUC and Cairo University) As'ad Khairallah (American University of Beirut) Andrew N. Rubin (University of Texas at Dallas) Randa Sabry (Cairo University)Doris Enright-Clark Shoukri (AUC)Hoda Wasfi (Ain Shams University)Contributors (alphabetically by last name): Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University, EgyptTamer Amin, American University of Beirut, LebanonBrian James Baer, Kent State University, Ohio, USAAbdesslam Benabdelali, Mohammed V University, Rabat, MoroccoClaire Gallien, University Paul Valéry, Montpellier, FranceNadia Hashish, Ain Shams University, Cairo, EgyptNaglaa Saad Hassan, Fayoum University, EgyptHassan Hilmy, Hassan II University, Casablanca, MoroccoSamia Al Hodathy, Paris Nanterre University, FranceHala Kamal, Cairo University, EgyptDavid Konstan, New York University, USAHossam Nayel, the Academy of Arts, Cairo, EgyptAntonio Pacifico, Oriental University Institute, Naples, ItalyYasmine Sweed, MSA University, Cairo, EgyptLevi Thompson, University of Colorado-Boulder, USAYoussef Yacoubi, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, USA