Introduction--Mary Ann Fay
Part I: Early Modern Period
Biography and Arab History--Judith Tucker
Forgotten Appellations: Notorious Individuals in Seventeenth-Century Biographical Dictionaries--Ibraham Ali
Biography, Autobiography and Identity in Early Modern Damascus--Steve Tamari
The Transmission of Knowledge in Religious Instruction: An Examination of Biographical Notices from the Late Sixteenth Century Maghrib--Osama Abi-Mershed
On the Writing of Biography--Virginia Aksan
Part II: Colonial Period
Kulthum Auda, Palestinian Ethnographer: Gendering the Palestinian Landscape--Garay Menicucci
The Judge: Abd al-Wahid Khammash and the Transformation of Nablus in the Ninetenth-Century--Beshara Doumani
Jamal Sidqi al-Zahhawi, the Iraqi Ottoman-Era Intellectual and Poet--Dina Khoury
Biography as a Window to the Social and Cultural History of the Middle East--William Cleveland
Feminist Women of Egypt: Late Nineteenth to Twentieth-Century--Sana Abed-Kottob
Part III: Post-Colonial Period
Ethno/Biography: Writing Culture, Writing Lives--Cynthia Nelson
Ambiguous Voices: Sudanese Immigrant and Exile Narratives in Egypt--Anita Fabos
Generation and Self: Blending Histories of Egyptian Women Activists--Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
Self-Voice and Individual Trajectory: Ideology, Identity and Commitment in Khaled Mohieddin's Autobiography--Didier Monciaud
Famous Wombs: Gendered Biography and Constructions of an Islamic State in Egypt Now--Marilyn Booth
"To Create and In Creating to be Created": Reflections on the Mixing of Fiction and Memoir in Lina: A Portrait of a Damascene Girl and the House on Arnus Square--Samar Attar