Martina Censi Editor

Martina Censi is Research Associate of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Bergamo (Italy). She is member of the Équipe de Recherche Interlangue (ERIMIT) at the University of Rennes 2 (France). In her research she deals with literary representations of the body, processes of construction of masculinity and femininity and on migration with a special focus on contemporary Arabic novel. She published the book Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines: Dire, écrire, inscrire la différence (Leiden: Brill, 2016) and other articles about modern and contemporary Arabic literature.

Maria Elena Paniconi is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Macerata. She co-authored with Lorenzo Casini and Lucia Sorbera Modernità Arabe. Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano (Mesogea 2013). She is interested to the rise of the Arab novel and to the dialectics among literary genres during the Arab Nahḍa. She wrote articles and essays in Journal of Arabic Literature, Oriente Moderno on nahḍawī authors and co-edited with Jolanda Guardi the special issue of Oriente Moderno “Nahḍa Narratives”. She wrote the entries on Ṭāhā Ḥusayn and Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal for the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam. Her book Bildungsroman and the Arab Novel: Egyptian intersections is forthcoming for Routledge.