Abstract

Books
After Lives: legacies of revolutionary writing (New York: Verso Books, 1996)
Barred: women, writing, and political detention (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1992)
Resistance Literature (London: Methuen Publishing, 1987)
Translations
Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine’s Children (London and Washington, DC: Heinemann/Three Continents Press, 1984). Reprinted (with Karen Riley as co-translator and new introduction) (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000)
Jacques Derrida, Spurs (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1979)
Edited collections
From the East India Company to the Suez Canal (Vol. I), Archives of Empire, edited with Mia Carter (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003)
The Scramble for Africa (Vol. II), Archives of Empire, edited with Mia Carter (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003)
Palavers of African Literature (Vol. 1) and African Writers and Their Readers (Vol. 2), Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors, with Toyin Falola (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002)
Imperialism and Orientalism: a documentary sourcebook, edited with Mia Carter (Blackwell, 1999)
The View from Within: writers and critics on contemporary Arabic literature, edited with Ferial Ghazoul (American University in Cairo Press, 1994)
Introductions
Introduction to Leila Abouzeid’s Year of the Elephant: a Moroccan woman’s journey toward independence, 2nd Edition, xi–xv (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009)
Introduction to Salwa Bakr’s The Wiles of Men and Other Stories, xiii–xxii (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993)
Introduction to Liyana Badr’s A Balcony over the Fakihani, xi–xiv (Northampton: Interlink Books, 1992)
Introduction to ‘Gender and Political Change’, Special Issue of Middle East Report on Gender and Politics 173 (1991), pp. 4–8. With Julie Peteet
Introduction to Kanafani’s ‘Thoughts on Change and the Blind Language’, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 10 (1990), pp. 132–36.
Introduction to ‘Modern Arab Writers and the Politics of the Middle East’, Special Issue of Arab Studies Quarterly 82 (1986), pp. 101–03
Introduction to Malek Alloula The Colonial Harem, translated by Myrna and Wlad Godzich, ix–xxi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986)
Introduction to ‘Third World Theorizing’, Special Issue of the Journal of the Society for Critical Exchange (Fall 1986)
Introduction to Palestine’s Children, iv–xviii (Portsmouth: Heinemann/Three Continents Press, 1984)
Articles and review articles
‘Gaza 2014 and the “duty to investigate”: a review article’, Race & Class 57, no. 4 (2016), pp. 104–10
‘Curricular change: outside the classroom, under occupation’, SCTIW Review (January 2016)
‘“Be it resolved…”: referenda on recent scholarship in the Israel-Palestine conflict’, Critical Critique 91 (Fall 2015), pp. 190–205
Review article of The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela; Claim No Easy Victories: the legacy of Amilcar Cabral; Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid, Race & Class 57, no. 1 (2015), pp. 95–100
‘What the holy see saw – and didn’t see’, Humanity (2015), pp. 421–27
‘Interventioneers: humanitarian, military, and otherwise’, SCTIW Review (June 2015), pp. 1–8
‘Whence? Whither? The modern Arabic literary narrative: some hazarded speculations’, IJMES 46 (2014), pp. 175–84
‘My name is Caterpillar: Corrie et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc’, Biography 37, no. 1 (2014), pp. 225–45
Review article of The General: the ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo; Sketching Guantanamo: court sketches of the military tribunals 2006-2013, Race & Class 56, no. 3 (2014), pp. 119–22
‘“Today is human rights day”: Ruth First, human rights and the United Nations’, Review of African Political Economy 41, no. 139 (2014), pp. 125–33
‘Apartheid or not Apartheid? The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, South Africa Session, November 2011’, Law, Culture and the Humanities 9, no. 3 (2013), pp. 412–20
Review article of Translating Egypt’s Revolution: the language of Tahrir, Race & Class 55, no. 2 (2013), pp. 109–12
Review article of We Are All Zimbabweans Now: a novel; Freedom Never Rests: a novel of democracy in South Africa, Race & Class 54, no. 3 (2013), pp. 107–09
Review article of Britain’s Empire: resistance, repression and revolt, Race & Class 54, no. 2 (2012), pp. 113–15
‘Child soldiers as “high-profile legal subjects”’, English Language Notes 50, no. 1 (2012), pp. 135–39
‘From flying carpets to no-fly zones: Libya’s elusive revolution(s), according to Ruth First, Hisham Matar, and the International Criminal Court’, Journal of Arabic Literature 2–3, no. 43 (2012), pp. 431–57
‘“The geography and the event”: questions of Palestine and their eventual jurisdiction’, Interventions 14, no. 1 (2012), pp. 13–23
‘Resistance literature revisited: from Basra to Guantánamo’, ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics 32 (2012), pp. 10–29
Review article of Edward Said: a legacy of emancipation and representation; Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: modernity and the politics of exclusion since Ibn Khaldun, Race & Class 53, no. 3 (2011), pp. 111–14
‘“Extraordinary renditions”: tales of Guantánamo, a review article’, Race & Class 52, no. 4 (2011), pp. 1–29
‘United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (2011): Libya in the dock’, Rapoport Center Human Rights Working Paper Series (December 2011). With Daniel Kahozi, Lucas Lixinski, and Caroline Carter. <http://blogs.utexas.edu/rapoportcenterwps/working-papers/62011-barbara-harlow-daniel-kahozi-lucas-lixinski-and-caroline-carter-united-nations-security-council-resolution-1973-2011-libya-in-the-dock/>
‘Child and/or soldier? From resistance movements to human rights regiments’, CR: The New Centennial Review 10, no. 1 (2010), pp. 195–215
‘“Flushed with elation”: Ruth First at the University of Dar es Salaam’, Chemchem: Bulletin of the Mwalimu Professorial Chair in Pan-African Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam (inaugural issue, 2009)
‘Public spheres, personal papers, pedagogical practices: Ruth First’s academic postings to/from Dar es Salaam and Maputo’, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 20 (2009), pp. 171–94
‘Resistance in writing: Ghassan Kanafani and the “question of Palestine”’, The Middle East Institute Viewpoints: The State of the Arts in the Middle East (2009), pp. 20–22. <www.mei.org>
‘Tortured thoughts: from Marshall Square to Guantánamo Bay’, Biography 32, no. 1 (2009), pp. 26–42
‘Mismar Guha: al-Tahadda al-Arabi li-l-Tatbia al Thaqafia’, Fusul 72 (2008), pp. 20–32. Translation of ‘Mismar Guha: the Arab challenge to cultural dependency’, South Atlantic Quarterly 87, no. 1 (1988)
‘Red lines and green books: Ruth First in Libya’, Current Writing 16, no. 1 (2008), pp. 15–32
‘Landmines, HIV/Aids, and Africa’s new generation’, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 9, no. 1 (2007)
‘From Basra to Guantanamo: resistance literature revisited’, Al-Ahram Weekly 891 (9–15 November 2006)
‘Crossroads Guantánamo’, New Formations 59 (Autumn 2006), pp. 158–65
Review article of Into the Quick of Life: the Rwandan genocide – the survivors speak; A Time for Machetes: the Rwandan genocide – the killers speak’, Race & Class 48, no. 1 (2006), pp. 99–103
‘Alibis in the archives: Betty Joseph’s Reading the East India Company’, H-Gender-MidEast (November 2004)
‘No short cuts: Henning Mankell’s Secrets in the Fire and Playing With Fire’, St. John’s University Humanities Review 2, no. 2 (2004), pp. 62–67
‘Remember the solidarity here and everywhere’, Middle East Report 229 (2003), pp. 4–7
‘The ‘Kimberley Process’: literary gems, civil wars, and historical resources’, CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 2 (2003), pp. 219–40
‘ “If truth be told…”’, Bill Rolston’s Unfinished Business; Henk Van Woerden’s A Mouthful of Glass; Richard J. Goldstone’s For Humanity, Race & Class special issue on ‘Truth?’ 44, no. 1 (2002), pp. 119–24
‘Looked class, talked red: sketches of Ruth First and redlined Africa’, Meridians 3, no. 1 (2002), pp. 226–51
‘Redlined Africa: Ruth First’s Barrel of a Gun’, Biography 25, no. 1 (2002), pp. 151–70
‘A chapter in South African verse: interview with Jeremy Cronin’, ALIF, no. 21 (2001), pp. 252–70
‘Where are the women?’, Maryann G. Valinks and Mary O’Down, eds, Women and Irish History; Megan Sullivan, Women in Northern Ireland, Irish Journal of Feminist Studies 4, no. 1 (2000), pp. 104–08.
‘Prisons’, Program #64 of What’s the Word? Produced by the MLA for NPR, 2000
‘Boers and bores: international delegations and internal debates’, Kunapipi 21, no. 3 (1999), pp. 90–102
‘Mine magnates and mine snakes: diamond and gold stories from Southern Africa’, Voices from South Africa, Middfest International Foundation (1999), pp. 7–11
‘Sappers in the stacks: colonial archives, land mines and truth commissions’, boundary 2 25, no. 2 (1998), pp. 179–204
‘Palestine: Kan Wa Ma Kan’, Rosemary Sayigh’s Too Many Enemies; Bassma Kodmani-Darwish’s La diaspora palestinienne; Susan Slyomovics’s The Object of Memory, Diaspora 7, no. 1 (1998), pp. 75–85
‘Writers and assassinations’, Suitcase II 1–2 (1997), pp. 116–22
Frank Rosengarten, ed., Antonio Gramsci: letters from prison, Socialism and Democracy 9, no. 1 (1995), pp. 198–206
Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism, Design Book Review 29–30 (1993), pp. 23–26
‘Speaking from the dock’, Callaloo 16, no. 4 (1993), pp. 874–90
‘Drawing the line: cultural politics and the legacy of partition’, Polygraph 5 (1992), pp. 84–111
‘Min Warrah: interview with Edward Said’, Harbour 5 (1992)
‘Travel restrictions’, Harbour 5 (1992), pp. 45–49
‘Adab al-mar’a al-muqawama’, Al-Hadaf 1053 (19 May 1991). Translation into Arabic of a section of Resistance Literature
‘Afro-Caribbean liberations’, Patrick Taylor’s The Narrative of Liberation: perspectives on Afro-Caribbean literature, Novel 24, no. 3 (1991), pp. 319–22
‘“Linkages”: Gramsci and the “Gulf Crisis”’, Socialism and Democracy 7, no. 3 (1991), pp. 107–23
‘Multiculturalism as it really is’, Against the Current 35 (1991), pp. 5–10. With Brian Bremen, Ann Cvetkovich, Michael Hanchard, Anne Norton, Gretchen Ritter and Ramón Saldívar.
‘Testimonio and survival: Roque Dalton’s Miguel Marmol’, Latin American Perspectives 18, no. 4 (1991), pp. 9–12
‘Travel documents: redelegating representation’, Social Text 27 (1991), pp. 72–87
Interview on Ghassan Kanafani and the politics of culture, Al-Adab 6–7 (1990), pp. 27–51
‘Political detention: countering the university’, October 53 (1990), pp. 41–61
‘Prison culture: countering the occupation’, Border/Lines 19 (1990), pp. 18–25
‘Prison text, resistance culture’, Adil Amr’s Al-Zafirun bi-l-ar, Middle East Report 164–5 (1990), pp. 67–69
‘Re-imagining the penitentiary’, John Bender’s Imagining the Penitentiary, Novel 23, no. 2 (1990), pp. 209–11
‘An al-rijal wa-l banadiq’, Al Hadaf 968 (7 July 1989), pp. 42–44. Translation into Arabic of a section from Resistance Literature
‘Narrative in prison: stories from the Palestinian Intifada’, Modern Fiction Studies 35, no. 1 (1989)
Timothy Mitchell’s Colonizing Egypt, Middle East Report 159 (1989), pp. 40–43
Yusuf Idris’s The Sinner; Emily Nasrallah’s Flight Against Time; Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s The Ship, Al-Arabiyya 22 (1989), pp. 177–79
‘Mismar Guha: the Arab challenge to cultural dependency’, South Atlantic Quarterly 87, no. 1 (1988), pp. 109–29
‘Creativity behind bars’, Samedoon 1, no. 1 (1987), pp. 1 and 5
‘Frantz Fanon and narratives of resistance’ New Formations 1, no. 1 (1987), pp. 131–35
‘The future belongs to the children: Dar al-Fata al-Arabi and Arabic children’s literature’, Il Giiornale dei Genitori (1987), pp. 34–37. In Italian
‘Cultural resistance’, Kofi Natambu, ed., Nostalgia for the Present: an anthology of writings (from Detroit), Black American Literature Forum 20, no. 3 (1986), pp. 317–26
‘Egyptian intellectuals and the debate on the “normalization of cultural relations”’, Cultural Critique 4 (1986), pp. 33–59
‘From the women’s prison: Third World women’s narratives of prison’, Feminist Studies 12, no. 3 (1986), pp. 501–24
‘History and endings: Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun and Tawfiq Salih’s The Duped’, minnesota review 25 (1986), pp. 279–86
‘Return to Haifa: opening the borders in Palestinian literature’, Social Text 12–14 (1986), pp. 2–23
‘Twelve stories for Arab children’, Arab Studies Quarterly 8, no. 1 (1986), pp. 21–28
‘About Cairo: E.W. Lane’s Account and Ahmad Amin’s Dictionary’, Journal of the History of Ideas 46, no. 2 (1985), pp. 279–86
‘The amazing road’, A. M. Elmessiri’s The Palestinian Wedding: a bilingual anthology of contemporary Palestinian resistance poetry, MERIP Reports 131 (1985), pp. 26–28
‘Short stories in Heinemann’s Arab authors series’, Arab Studies Quarterly 2, no. 1 (1980), pp. 101–10
Salma K. Jayyusi’s Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry, Arab Studies Quarterly 2, no. 4 (1980), pp. 375–84
‘Camus and Algeria: 1985’, CELFAN Review 4, no. 3 (1985), pp. 31–35
‘An introduction to Balach Khan’, Seneca Review 2, no. 14 (1984), pp. 42–47
‘Palestine or Andalusia: the literary response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon’, Race & Class 26, no. 2 (1984), pp. 33–43
‘The Maghrib and The Stranger’, ALIF 3 (1983), pp. 38–55
‘Othello’s season of migration’, Edebiyat 4, no. 2 (1979), pp. 157–75
‘Realignment: Alois Riegl’s image of Late Roman art industry’, Glyph 3 (1978), pp. 118–36
‘Ecce Homo: a questionable epigraph’, Nuova Corrente 68–69 (1975–76), pp. 585–613
‘Sur la lecture’, MLN 90 (1975), pp. 849–71
Sections of books
‘Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): an essay in bibliography’, in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights, edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 289–98
‘Hamida’s options: Egyptian futures versus British interests in Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley’, in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz, edited by Wail S. Hassan and Susan Muaddi Darraj (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2012), pp. 118–29
‘Diamonds, IDBism, and De Beers’, in Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation, edited by Purnima Bose and Laura E. Lyons (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), pp. 128–50
‘Protest and resistance’, in The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel, edited by F. Abiola Irele (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 51–68
‘Berlin Conference’, in A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, edited by Prem Poddar and David Johnson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008), pp. 63–64
‘Nelio and Suleiman as tattle-tales: literature, human rights and storytelling’, in The First Centenary of Cairo University International Symposium, edited by Ahmed Etman (Cairo: Cairo University, 2008), pp. 442–47
‘“No short cuts”: landmines, HIV/Aids and Africa’s new generation’, in Health Knowledge and Belief Systems in Africa, edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2008), pp. 461–67
‘Sanctions against South Africa: historical example or historic exception?’, in The Post-Colonial and the Global, edited by Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp. 191–99
‘Berlin Conference’, in A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literature in English, edited by Prem Poddar and David Johnson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
‘Durban works’, in Urbanization and African Cultures, edited by Toyin Falola and Steven S. Salm (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005), pp. 235–45
‘Ruth First and Olive Schreiner’, in The Dark Webs: perspectives on colonialism in Africa, edited by Toyin Falola (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005), pp. 329–53
‘From Haifa to Camden Town – and back again’, in Between the Archival Forest and the Anecdotal Trees: a multidisciplinary approach to Palestinian social history, edited by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (Birzeit: Birzeit University Press, 2004), pp. 47–62
‘John Buchan’, ‘H. Rider Haggard’, ‘Elspeth Huxley’, ‘Missionaries’, ‘Pacification’, in The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia, edited by M. Keith Booker (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003)
‘“Good men in Africa?”: from missionaries to mercenaries’, in Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies across the disciplines, edited by Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002), pp. 251–61
‘Partitions and precedents: Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian political geography’, in Intersections: gender, nation and community in Arab women’s novels, edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman and Terese Saliba (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002), pp. 113–31
‘Structurally adjusted amnesia: South Africa’s long march and longer walk to freedom’, in Reading Global Socialist Cultures After the Cold War: the reassessment of a tradition, edited by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002), pp. 149–64
‘Barrios de Chungara, Domitila’, in Encyclopedia of Life Writing: autobiographical and biographical forms (2 Vols), edited by Margaretta Jolly (London and Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), pp. 92–93
‘What was she doing there? Women as “legitimate targets”’, in Women, Gender and Human Rights: a global perspective, edited by Marjorie Agosín (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001), pp. 267–82
‘Carceles clandestinas: Interrogación, Debate y Dialogo en El Salvador’, translated by Luis Marentes and Raquel Medina, in La Literatura Centroamericana como Arma Cultural, edited by Jorge Roman Lagunas and Rick McCallister (Guatemala: Editorial Oscar de León Placios, 1999) (Translation of a chapter from Barred)
‘From the women’s prison: Third World women’s narratives of prison’, in Women, Autobiography, Theory, edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998), pp. 453–60
‘Ruth First and the politics of dissent’, in AUETSA 96: Conference Proceedings (Bellville: University of Western Cape Press, 1997), pp. 196–200
‘From the civilizing mission to humanitarian interventionism: postmodernism, writing and human rights’, in Text and Narration, edited by Peter C. Pfeiffer and Laura García-Moreno (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 1996), pp. 31–47
‘Testimonio and survival’, in The Real Thing: testimonial discourse and Latin America, edited by George M. Gugelberger (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996), pp. 70–83
‘The novels of Ghassan Kanafani’, in Great Literature of the Eastern World, edited by Ian P. McGreal (New York: Harper Collins, 1996), pp. 547–50
‘The writing on the wall’, in Theory Rules, edited by Jody Berland, Will Straw and David Tomas (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996), pp. 115–28
‘Gayatri Spivak’, in The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing, edited by Cathy Davidson and Linda-Wagner Davidson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 843–44
‘Gender and colonialism in an age called “postcolonial”’, in Gender and Colonialism, edited by T. P. Foley, L. Pilkington, S. Ryder and E. Tilley (Galway: Galway University Press, 1995), pp. 282–96
‘“Political status”: writing gender in resistance’, in Discourse and Palestine: power, text and context, edited by Annelies Moors, Toine van Teeffelen, Sharif Kanaana and Ilham Abu Ghazaleh (The Hague: Het Spinhuis, 1995), pp. 207–19
‘Writers and assassinations’, in Imagining Home: class, culture and nationalism in the African diaspora, edited by Sidney J. Lemelle and Robin D. G. Kelley (New York: Verso, 1994), pp. 167–84
‘Law and order in A Passage to India’, in Approaches to A Passage to India, edited by Tony Davies and Nigel Wood (Berkshire: Open University Press, 1994), pp. 65–89
‘Negotiating treaties: Maastricht and NAFTA’, in Marxism in the Postmodern Age: confronting the New World Order, edited by Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg and Carole Biewener (New York: Guilford Press, 1994), pp. 506–17
‘Readings of national identity in the Palestinian novel’, in The Arabic Novel Since 1950: critical essays, interviews and bibliography, edited by Issa J. Boullata (Dar al-Mahjar: Mundus Arabicus 5, 1992), pp. 89–108
‘The Palestinian intellectual and the liberation of the academy’, in Edward Said: a critical reader, edited by Michael Sprinker (Blackwell, 1992), pp. 173–93
‘Sites of struggle: immigration, deportation, prison and exile’, in Criticism in the Borderlands: studies in Chicano literature, culture and ideology, edited by Hector Calderon and José Saldîvar (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991), pp. 149–63
‘“The tortoise and the birds”: strategies of resistance in Things Fall Apart’, in Approaches to Teaching Things Fall Apart, edited by Bernth Lindfors (Modern Language Association, 1991), pp. 74–79
‘Memory and historical record: the literature and literary criticism of Beirut 1982’, in Left Politics and the Literary Profession, edited by Lennard J. Davis and M. Bella Mirabella (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. 186–208
‘Arabic bibliography’, in International Bibliography of Literary Theory 1984–85, edited by Ralph Cohen and Jeffrey Peck (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), pp. 1–4. With Muhammad Siddiq.
‘Arab women writers’, Introduction to section on Arab women’s writing, Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women 1875–1975, edited by Marian Arkin and Barbara Shollar (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 1163–71
‘Commentary: “all that is inside is not center”: responses to the discourses of domination’, in Coming to Terms: feminism, theory, politics, edited by Elizabeth Weed (Abingdon: Routledge, 1989), pp. 162–70
‘Sentimental orientalism’, in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North: a casebook, edited by Mona Takieddine Amyuni (Beirut: American University in Beirut, 1985), pp. 75–79
Reviews
Tiffany Willoughby-Gerard’s Waste of a White Skin: the Carnegie Corporation and the racial logic of white vulnerability, Race & Class 58, no. 3 (2017), pp. 98–101
Stuart Schaar’s Eqbal Ahmad: critical outsider in a turbulent Age, Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 2 (2016), pp. 551–52
Ahmed Errachidi’s (with Gillian Slovo) The General and Janet Hamlin, Sketching Guantanamo, Race & Class 56, no. 3 (2015), pp. 119–22
Rita Barnard, ed., Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela; Firoze Manji and Bill Fletcher Jr, eds, Claim no Easy Victories; Alan Wieder’s Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid, Race & Class 57, no. 1 (2015), pp. 95–100
Stephen Morton’s States of Emergency: colonialism, literature and law, Research in African Literatures 46, no. 1 (2015), pp. 190–93
Samia Mehrez, ed., Translating Egypt’s Revolution: the language of Tahrir, Race & Class 55 (October 2013), pp. 109–12
James Kilgore’s We Are All Zimbabweans Now: a novel and Freedom Never Rests: a novel of democracy in South Africa, Race & Class 54, no. 3 (2012), pp. 107–09
Richard Gott’s Britain’s Empire: resistance, repression and revolt, Race & Class 54, no. 2 (2012), pp. 113–15
Adania Shibli’s Touch (Trans. Paula Haydar), Journal of Palestine Studies 40, no. 3 (2011), pp. 119–20
Adel Iskander and Hakem Rustom, eds, Edward Said: a legacy of emancipation and representation and Mohammad R., Salama, Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History, Race & Class 53, no. 3 (2011), pp. 111–14
‘Angel of Palestine’, Race & Class 52, no. 3 (2011), pp. 92–113
Moustafa Bayoumi, ed., Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and how it changed the course of the Israel/Palestine conflict, E3W Review of Books 11 (2011)
Francis Nyamjoh’s The Travail of Dieudonné and Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamjoh and Inge Brinkman’s Mobile Phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa, Race & Class 51, no. 3 (2010), pp. 99–101
Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories: report of the United Nations fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict (The Goldstone Report), Race & Class 52, no. 3 (2010), pp. 104–07
Ketu Katrak’s Politics of the Female Body: postcolonial women writers of the Third World, Modern Philology (February 2010)
Carole Boyce Davies’s Left of Karl Marx: the political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, Race & Class 50, no. 4 (2009), pp. 103–06
Haifa Zangana’s Women on a Journey: between Baghdad and London (Trans. Judy Cumberbatch), International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies 3, no. 3 (2009), pp. 340–43
Mahmood Mamdani’s Scholars in the Marketplace: the dilemmas of neo-liberal reform at Makerere University and Issa G. Shivji’s Let the People Speak: Tanzania down the road to neo-liberalism, Race & Class 50, no. 4 (2009), pp. 110–13
Clive Stafford-Smith’s Bad Men: Guantánamo Bay and the secret prisons, E3W Review of Books (Spring 2008), pp. 24–25
Rita Barnard’s Apartheid and Beyond: South African writers and the politics of place, Modern Fiction Studies 54, no. 4 (2008), pp. 915–18
Henning Mankell’s Chronicler of the Winds and Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men, Race & Class 50, no. 1 (2008), pp. 108–10
Frank T. Kryza’s The Race for Timbuktu: in search of Africa’s city of gold, The Historian 69, no. 3 (2007), pp. 515–16
Denis Herbstein’s White Lies: Canon Collins and the secret war against apartheid and Roger Fieldhouse’s Anti-Apartheid: a history of the movement in Britain, Race & Class 47, no. 3 (2006), pp. 93–98
Jean Hatzfeld’s Into the Quick of Life: the Rwandan genocide – the survivors speak and A Time for Machetes: the Rwandan genocide – the killers speak, Race & Class 48, no. 1 (2006), pp. 99–103
M. J. Daymond et al., eds, Women Writing Africa; Njabulo Ndebele, The Cry of Winnie Mandela; Miriam Tlali, Between Two Worlds; Amma Kyerewaa, Kimberlite Flame, Race & Class 47, no. 1 (2005), pp. 100–03
Neil Lazarus, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, Race & Class 46, no. 4 (2005), pp. 90–93
Horace Engdahl, ed., Witness Literature, World Literature Today (2004), p. 96
Joe Cleary’s Literature, Partition and the Nation-State; Kristen Guest, ed., Eating Their Words; Ann Blake et al., eds, England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth Century Fiction, Race & Class 45, no. 2 (2003), pp. 93–97
Mark Saunders’s Complicities, Research in African Literatures 34, no. 4 (2003), pp. 181–82
Al Gedicks’s Resource Rebels, Race & Class 44, no. 2 (2002), pp. 86–89
Anne-Emmanuelle Berg, ed., Algeria in Others’ Languages, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3, no. 2 (2002)
Elleke Boehmer, Bloodlines; H. Rider Haggard, Diary of an African Journey; Laura Chrisman, Rereading the Imperial Romance, Race & Class 43, no. 1 (2001), pp. 90–95
Jabra I. Jabra’s In Search of Walid Masoud, Middle East Journal 55, no. 2 (2001), pp. 338–39
Joy James, ed., States of Confinement: policing, detention, and prisons, Race & Class 43, no. 4 (2001), pp. 98–102
George Bizos, No One to Blame?; Sindiwe Magona, Mother to Mother, Race & Class 41, no. 3 (2000), pp. 91–95
Neil Lazarus’s Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World; Deborah Marsden, ed., Post-Colonial Literatures; Franco Moretti’s Atlas of the European Novel 1800–1900, Race & Class 42, no. 1 (2000), pp. 83–86
Inderpal Grewal’s Home and Harem, Passages 1, no. 1 (1999), pp. 117–19
Matthew Carr, My Father’s House, Race & Class 40, no. 4 (1999), pp. 91–94
Jeremy Cronin’s Even the Dead: poems, parables and a Jeremiad, Race & Class 40, no. 1 (1998), pp. 93–96
José David Saldívar’s Border Matters: remapping American Culture Studies, Novel 12, no. 1 (1998), pp. 136–37
Gillian Slovo’s Every Secret Thing, Race & Class 39, no. 2 (1997), pp. 95–98
Kali Tal’s Worlds of Hurt, American Literary History (1997), pp. 433–34
Fedwa Malti-Douglas’s Men, Women and God(s), Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 2 (1997), pp. 528–30
Julie Newman’s The Ballistic Bard; Rosemary Jolly’s Colonization, Violence and Narration in White South African Writing, Novel 30, no. 2 (1997), pp. 259–61
Alan M. Wald’s Writing from the Left: new essays on radical culture and politics, Modern Fiction Studies 42, no. 1 (1996), pp. 219–21
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Footnotes
Mehdia Mrabet is a Barbara Harlow Intern in Human Rights & Social Justice (Summer 2018), Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice and Bridging Disciplines Program.
