Articles
MAXAMED DAAHIR AFRAX	Rural Imagery in Contemporary Somali Urban Poetry: A Debilitating Carryover in Transitional Verbal Art
ANDERS BREIDLID	Resistance and Reaction in Alex La Guma’s And a Threefold Cord
ANSHUMAN MONDAL	Naguib Mahfouz and his Women: The Cairo Trilogy
Fieldwork
MUNIZHA AHMAD	Notes on Fieldwork
Translations
AMINA YAQIN	Issues of Translation: Three Contemporary Urdu Poems
Book Review
RUTH WHITEHOUSE	Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet by Saime Göksu and Edward Timms (preface by Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
Media Review
KAI EASTON	John M. Coetzee: Passages