Table of Contents:
  • Biography as history : the exemplary life of Khayr al-Din al-Ramli / Judith E. Tucker
  • The transmission of knowledge and the education of the ʻulama in late sixteenth Maghrib : a study of the biographical dictionary of Muhammad ibn Maryam / Osama Abi-Mershed
  • Biography, autobiography, and identity in early modern Damascus / Steve Tamari
  • Infamous women and famous wombs : biography, gender, and Islamist concepts of community in contemporary Egypt / Marilyn Booth
  • Ideology, identity, and commitment in the autobiography of Khalid Mohieddin / Didier Monciaud
  • Shawikar Qadin : woman of power and influence in Ottoman Cairo / Mary Ann Fay
  • Looking for the modern : a biography of an Iraqi modernist / Dina Rizk Khoury
  • The worlds of George Antonius : identity, culture, and the making of an Anglo-Arab in the pre-World War II Middle East/ William L. Cleveland
  • Kulthum Auda : the forgotten Palestinian ethnographer / Garay Menicucci
  • Between political epochs and personal lives : formative experiences of Egyptian women activists / Nadje S. Al-Ali
  • Ambiguous borders, ambivalent subjects : being Sudanese in twentieth-century Egypt / Anita Häusermann Fábos
  • The question of writing premodern biographies of the Middle East / Virginia Aksan
  • Writing culture, writing lives : fictional boundaries / Cynthia Nelson
  • "To create and in creating to be created:" reflections on the mixing of fiction and memoir in Lina : a portrait of Damascene girl and the house on Arnus Square / Samar Attar.