The Editors: Philip F. Kennedy is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry (1997) and of Abu Nuwas: A Genius of Poetry (2005). He has edited two volumes of essays on aspects of medieval Arabic literature, and he is completing a monograph on anagnorisis in the Arabic and Islamic narrative tradition. Marilyn Lawrence writes on literature and the performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. Her publications include Performing Medieval Narrative (with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Nancy Freeman Regalado, 2005). She holds a B.A. from Princeton and a Ph.D. from New York University, where she is Visiting Scholar in the French Department.