Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Terri DeYoung, "Disguises of the Mind: Recent Palestinian Memoirs" REVIEW OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, (April 2017): 5-21. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Arabic, Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Nationalism, Nonfiction Prose
Terri DeYoung, "Ibn: Hazm: Friendship, Love and the Quest for Justice," Muhsin J. Musawi (ed.), ARABIC LITERATURE FOR THE CLASSROOM, Routledge, 2017: 237-253. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Arabic, Islamic Studies, Literary Criticism, Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy
Aria Fani, “Poet as Citizen in a Contested Nation: Rewriting the Poetry of Soviet-occupied Afghanistan.” In Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis. Edited by David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, Wayne Bowman, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 392-414. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Central Asian, Persian, Poetry and Poetics
“Linguistic and cultural needs of Arabic heritage learners,” in M. al-Qada’, and F. al-cUmari, eds., Dawr al-Maharat al-Lughwiyya fi Taclim al-Lugha. [Role of the language skills in the teaching of Arabic.] Amman, Jordan:  Dar Kunuuz al-Macarifa, 2015, pp. 509-528. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Language, Linguistics
Samad Alavi, "Living in Lyric: The Task of Translating a Modernist Ghazal" in Persian Language, Literature and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks, ed. Kamran Talattof, Routledge, 2015. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Iranian Studies, Persian, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation
Samad Alavi, "Living in Lyric: The Task of Translating a Modernist Ghazal" in Persian Language, Literature and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks  ed. Kamran Talattof, Routledge, 2015 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Literary Criticism, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation
Naomi Sokoloff, "Rereading David Grossman’s See Under : Love,"  Prooftexts 35:1 (2015): 1-12. Publications, Books, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Literary Criticism
“Israel in Jewish American Literature.” In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Jewish American Literature. Ed. Hannah Wirth. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Comparative Literature, History, Jewish Studies, Literary Criticism
Aria Fani, “Narratives of Literary Commitment in the Poetry of Afghan Resistance: The Cases of Khalilollah Khalili and Parwin Pazhwâk,” Iran Nameh, 29:1, 2014, pp. 108-120 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Aesthetics, Literary Criticism, Literature, Persian
“Muhammad as Ethical Role Model,” Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God (2 volumes). Ed Coeli Fitzpatrick. & Adam Walker (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio Press, 2014): 169-173.  Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Arabic, Islamic Studies, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Textual Studies
Williams, Michael A. "Introduction to "Gnosticism."Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds." Church History & Religious Culture 94, no. 1 (March 2014): 77-80. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Ancient, Religion
Andrews, Walter G. "William M. Reddy. The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900–1200 CE." American Historical Review 118, no. 4 (October 2013): 1147-1148 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Culture, History, Sexuality
Terri DeYoung, "Mahfouz's Novels and the Nation," Wail S. Hassan (ed.) and Susan Mu'addi Darraj (ed.), APPROACHES TO TEACHING THE WORKS OF NAGUIB MAHFOUZ, The Modern Language Association of America, 2012 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies, Novel/Prose Fiction
Williams, Michael A. "The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity." Journal Of Early Christian Studies 19, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 479-480. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Religion
“An Exploration of Listening Strategies:  A Descriptive Study of Arabic Learners". Al-cArabiyya 40 (2008), 71-86. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Arabic, Language, Language Pedagogy
Williams, Michael A. "The Secret Revelation of John." Journal Of The American Academy Of Religion 76, no. 1 (March 2008): 243-246. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Bible Studies, Religion
Williams, Michael A. "Why This New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity." Journal Of Religion 87, no. 2 (April 2007): 271-272. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Culture, Early Christianity, Ethnography, Race and Ethnicity, Religion
Kuru, Selim S. "Sex in the Text: Deli Birader's Dâfi'ü 'l-gumûm ve Râfi'ü 'l-humûm and the Ottoman Literary Canon." Middle Eastern Literatures 10, no. 2 (August 2007): 157-174. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Literary Criticism, Literature, Ottoman Turkish, Sexuality
Andrews, Walter. "Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800." Journal Of Religion 87, no. 2 (April 2007): 312-313. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Islamic Studies, Religion, Sexuality
2006    *“Professional standards for Arabic teachers,” in T. Wahba, and England L., eds., Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century. With Mahdi Alosh, and Salah Hammoud .  New Jersey:  Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Inc., 2006, pp. 409-417. Equal responsibility for authorship. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Language, Language Pedagogy
Volokhine, Youri, David Frankfurter, and Michael A. Williams. "Book Reviews." Numen: International Review For The History Of Religions 53, no. 3 (July 2006): 385-401. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters History, Religion
2005  *“Listening Comprehension and Anxiety in the Arabic Language Classroom," The Modern Language Journal 89 (2005), 206-220. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Arabic, Language, Language Pedagogy
2005 “The Effect of Prelistening Activities on Listening Comprehension in Arabic  Learners," Foreign Language Annals. 38 (2005), 505-513. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Arabic, Language, Language Pedagogy
Naomi Sokoloff, The Jewish Presence in Children's Literature. Edited, with an introduction, with Suzanne Rahn. A special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn 27, 3 (September 2003 - Johns Hopkins University Press)  Publications, Books, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children's Literature, Jewish Studies, Literary Criticism
2002  “Language Planning in the Age of Globalization:  The Case of Arabic, “Proceedings of the Machad al-Dirāsāt wa al-Abhāth lil-Tacrīb bi-al-Rabāt: As'ilat al-Lughah.” Ed. A. Al-Fassi Fehri, A. Tourabi, and A. Berissoul (2002), 93-114. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Arabic, Bilingualism, Language, Linguistics, Multilingualism