Introduction : the making of the Arab intellectual (1880-1960) : empire, public sphere and the colonial coordinates of selfhood / Dyala Hamzah
Pharaoh's revenge : translation, literary history and colonial ambivalence / Samah Selim
Public deliberations of the self in fin-de-siècle Egypt / Michael Gasper
Inscribing socialism into the nahãa : al-Muqtạtaf, al-Hilāl, and the construction of a leftist reformist worldview, 1880-1914 / Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
From ʻIlm to Sihafa or the politics of the public interest (maṣlaḥa) : Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā and his journal al-Manār (1898-1935) / Dyala Hamzah
Partitioned pasts : Arab Jewish intellectuals and the case of Esther Azhar/Moyal (1873-1948) / Lital Levy
The mahjar as literary and political territory in the first decades of the twentieth century : the example of Amīn Rīḥānī (1876-1940) / Leyla Dakhli
The generation of broad expectations : nationalism, education, and autobiography in Syria and Lebanon, 1930-1958 / Christoph Schumann
Waiting for the superman : a new generation of Arab nationalists in 1930s Iraq / Peter Wien.