Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 26

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 26This issue of Alif is devoted to travel and travel writing in the broadest cross cultural sense and focuses on what Mahmoud Manzalauoui has termed indigenes, visitants, sojourners, and habitants or metics, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East. It is a tribute to Middle East scholar and acclaimed travel writer John Rodenbeck. Essays in this issue take a variety of approaches, ranging from the historical to the analytical and philosophical.

exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europe through the examination of cross-border infrastructure

reducing greenhouse gas emissions such as by changing diet to reduce methane output

Questioning our ability to reduce LGBT liberation to rights and policies

Integrated nutrient management systems that use a holistic approach

Over the past 20 years

this book uses real-life case studies to illustrate how the collection

the design of new packaging items based on biopolymers with improved properties could help reduce both food and plastic waste

Offering a truly multidisciplinary range of perspectives

Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption

Provides an up-to-date synthesis of the many strands of distributional analysis used in the fields of social policy

An understanding of the linkages between tropical forests and surrounding agricultural landscapes may provide interesting ways to frame SFM goals

With the proliferation of satellite television news and social media channels