Maurice A. Pomerantz, Ph. D. 2010 (University of Chicago) is Associate Prof. of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi and Program Head for Arab Crossroads. His first book, entitled Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib b. ‘Abbād is a study of a vizier’s use arts of epistolary arabic prose in tenth-century Iran. He is currently finishing a co-authored monograph with Dr. Bilal Orfali, entitled Badī’ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī and the Maqāmāt: Author, Text and Commentary which will be appearing later this year with Reichert Verlag. Prof. Pomerantz serves on the editorial board of the Library of Arabic Literature, a series of facing-page translations of major works of Arabic literature published by NYU Press.