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-siecle Egypt / Michael Gasper -- Inscribing socialism into the nahaa : al-Muqtataf, al-Hilal, and the construction of a leftist reformist worldview, 1880-1914 / Ilham Khuri-Makdisi -- From Ilm to Sihafa or the politics of the public interest (maslaha) : Muhammad Rashid Rida and his journal al-Manar (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 Amin Rihani (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.
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