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Ferial Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo and has written extensively on gender issues in modern and medieval literature.

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