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The Joke

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.

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