Mediterranean Contaminations

The Mediterranean is a sea that has experienced extraordinary contacts, conflicts, encounters and exchanges through the centuries. This complexity is analysed in the present volume through the eyes of twelve scholars specialised in Middle Eastern and North African studies. Arabic and Semitic linguistics and dialectology, Arab literature and popular music and culture are some of the broad range of subjects included in this volume which engages different geographical areas of the so-called Mare Nostrum and various historical periods, from the medieval to the contemporary era.