By Rana Issa. In this essay, Rana Issa proposes a look at the carnal as a libidial force that permeates Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq’s understanding of the literary. She argues that for al-Shidyaq the carnal is a method for a critical approach on literary history and literary composition.
By Ezgi Sarıtaş. In this essay, the author explores how the illustrations in the Istanbul Ansiklopedisi (encyclopedia) bring together scattered pieces of a visual archive of the urban poor and their marginal labour, while concurrently adopting a voyeuristic interpretation of physical labour and young male bodies as objects of homoerotic desire.
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