English and French Section
Caroline Rooney: Shakespeare’s Hermetic Lampedusa: From Colonial Fantasies to the Afterlife in The Tempest
Andrea Maria Negri: Representations of Death in al-Maqāmāt al-Hindiyya
Shaimaa El-Ateek: Thanatogenos: Photographing Death and Writing Mourning in Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Mourning Diary
Elliott Colla: Elegy and Mobilization: Poetry, Mourning, and the Student Uprising of January 1972
Marwa Ramadan: On the Threshold of Death: Liminality and Transformation in Margaret Edson’s Wit
Tania Al Saadi: La mort dans la littérature irakienne de l’exil : L’exemple d’Inaam Kachachi
Shaimaa Gohar: Taming the Terror of Death in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo
Hala Amin: Frankenstein’s Monster, Past and Present: Writing Against Death in Frankenstein in Baghdad

Arabic Section
Saeed Elmasry: Cultural Approaches to Mortality: A Critical Overview of the Anthropology of Death
Mohamed Birairi: Confronting Annihilation: Readings in Pre-Islamic Poetry
Karam AbuSehly: Literature as Archive of Mortality: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Trauerspie
lMay Telmissany: Death and the Annihilation of History in Egyptian Surrealism
Hajjaj Abu Jabr: Death of God Theology: The Holocaust of Paul Celan and Mahmoud Darwish
Shahla Ujayli: ‘Abd al-Salām al-‘Ujaylī’s Stories of Illness between Culture and the Medical Institution
Walid El Khachab: Mystic Annihilation in Sufi Art: Death as a Form of Life
Dani Nassif: Traumatic Past and Fantasy: Testimonies of the Undead in Rabī‘ Jābir’s Bīrītūs
Yasmine Motawy: “Normal Grief”: Death in Children’s Picturebooks

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 42

Literature Confronting Mortality