MESAAS FACULTY

PUBLICATIONS

Aftab Ahmad translates Maai, by Geetanjali Shree

by mesaas | Jul 16, 2026 | Publications |

Maai (The Mother) Translated by Aftab Ahmad Published in 1993, Maai (The Mother) is Geetanjali Shree’s first novel. Set in the deorhi (ancestral mansion) of an upper-middle-class family in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, the novel is narrated by a modern, highly... Read more

Post-Orientalism by Hamid Dabashi translated into Japanese

by mesaas | May 18, 2026 | Publications |

Japanese publishing company Sakuhinsha is releasing this July a new edition of the Japanese translation of Post-Orientalism:  Knowledge and Power in Time of... Read more

Catalogue of “Adabistan Library” published with introduction by Timsal Masud

by mesaas | Mar 4, 2026 | Publications |

Catalogue of “Adabistan Library” in Two Volumes Syed Masud Hasan Rizvi (1893–1975), a distinguished scholar of Persian and Urdu literature, was associated with Lucknow University as the Head of the Department of Persian. Masud Hasan Rizvi also collected rare... Read more

My Father, the Messiah by Gil Hochberg published by Duke University Press

by mesaas | Feb 19, 2026 | Publications |

In her memoir My Father, the Messiah, Gil Hochberg traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades—from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg’s father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. After... Read more

The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow by Timothy Mitchell published by Verso

by mesaas | Feb 17, 2026 | Publications |

Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the... Read more

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast by Naama Harel published by Rutgers University Press

by mesaas | Jan 12, 2026 | Publications |

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and therefore parallel. The trope of the womanized Jewish man has been widely recognized as a staple in otherizing portrayals of European Jews, as well as... Read more