The Joke: Summer 2022
Issue 15 from magazine ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
'Imad al-Din al-Isfahani
Alaa Murad
Ibn Al-Jawzi
Nawal Nasrallah
Jurji Zaydan
Lily Sadowski
Hussein Fawzy
Nathaniel E. Miller
Sarah Aldawood
Nema Alaraby
Abu al-Salt Umayya
Muhammad Zafzaf
Haci Osman Gündüz
Zeena Faulk
Emily Selove
Anonymous
Tony Crawford
Nadiya Abdullatif
Brian Powell
Zuher Karim
Anam Jafar
Basma Alnsour
Abu al-Shamaqmaq
The Summer 2022 issue of ArabLit Quarterly looks at both the light and darker sides of THE JOKE in an issue dedicated to the art of making people laugh. We have excerpts from medieval joke books, humorous classic poetry, and profiles of classic jokesters, as well as jokes all the way through history, down to those that have challenged power in Egypt and Morocco in recent decades. One essay looks at songs and humor in contemporary Egypt, while another -- by Sanaa Al Ali, translated by Leonie Rau -- asks what makes Moroccans laugh.
