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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 26: Wanderlust: Travel Literature of Egypt and the Middle East Arabic language immersion Zan GojcicFerial GhazoulThis 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