Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 36

David Konstan: Loyalty: The Missing Virtue in Classical Thought
Héba Machhour: L’amitié pour Montaigne: L’ami — le livre
Suha Kudsieh: Beyond Colonial Binaries: Amicable Ties among Egyptian and European Scholars, 1820-1850
Sara Nimis: “As if with him in bed”: Intimacy and Authority in Early Modern Arab Biographies
Ahmed Elnimeiri: Thoreau and Emerson: An Anatomy of a Friendship
Doaa Embabi: Friendship and Solidarity in Prison: Mandela and Habashi
Annemarie Pabel: “I want the diary to be my friend”: The Imagined Friend in Anne Frank’s Diary
Marwa Ramadan: Friendship without Boundaries: Spirituality and Sufi Wisdom in Schmitt’s Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur’an
Hala Amin: The Politics of Friendship in Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman
Mohamad Malas: Portrait of a Friend: Sonallah Ibrahim (Translated by Margaret Litvin)