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 | | ASJ’s modest beginning, its high rotation of intensely committed but volunteer staff of graduate students, and a lack of consistent or substantial funding have posed several challenges. |
 | | Without prejudicing strategies that aim to challenge and/or confront such a difficult situation, we at ASJ present this issue as one in a series of ongoing efforts to publish sound scholarship on the Middle East. |
 | | As her friend and colleague Samia Mehrez writes in her eulogy (this issue), Magda was not only a leading scholar in the field of Arabic and comparative literature, an active professor and mentor extraordinaire, she was also a personal beacon for many. |
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