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Catherine Cobham is a lecturer of Arabic language and literature at the University of St Andrews.

Her works include:

(with Fabio Caiani) “The Other Shore: Dialogue and Difference in Mahdi `Isa al-Saqr's al-Shati' al-thani”, Middle Eastern Literatures (forthcoming) (2008)

“Enchanted to a stone: heroes and leaders in The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz” in Identities Remembered, Discovered, Invented: Hero and Character in Modern Arabic Narrative, Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2 (2006).

“Khazin al-la-mar'iyyat: Heroes For Our Time, or ‘He not busy being born is busy dying’ ” in Identities Remembered, Discovered, Invented: Hero and Character in Modern Arabic Narrative, Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2 (2006).

“Reading and Writing in al-Masarrat wa'l-awja' ”by Fu'ad al-Takarli, Journal of Arabic Literature, vol. 35, no. 1 (2004)

"The Long Way Back: Possibilities for Survival and Renewal in al-Raj' al-ba'id by Fu'ad al-Takarli", Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2 (2002)

"The Poetics of Space in Two Stories by Hanan al-Shaykh" in B. Hallaq et al (eds.), La poétique de l'espace dans la littérature arabe moderne (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2002)

Only in London, translation of Innaha Lundun, ya 'azizi by Hanan al-Shaykh(Bloomsbury, London and Pantheon, New York, 2001)

The Long Way Back, translation of al-Raj' al-ba'id by Fu'ad al-Takarli (American University in Cairo Press, 2001)

"Sufism and Irony in Al-Taslim by Abdelilah al-Hamdouchi”, Oriente Moderno, vol. 2-3 (1997)

The Harafish, translation of al-Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz (American University of Cairo Press and Doubleday, New York, 1994) (edited with Sabry Hafez) A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories, (Saqi, London, 1988)