Guidelines for Submission
Al-Wafaa News, which celebrated its eleventh anniversary in January, 2001, is an independent quarterly newsletter. Since January, 1990, articles on a variety of subjects were published on technology, history, politics, religion, art, music and poetry as well as a series of articles on Arab professional personalities (focusing on women) and minority religions within the Middle East.
In the Fall, 1994, Al-Wafaa News became the quarterly newsletter of the Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS). This arrangement continued all through the Summer of 1997 when INEAS started its own quarterly newsletter (INEAS News) and Al-Wafaa News became an independent entity. Wafaa' Salman is the editor of both quarterly newsletters.
Al-Wafaa News included reports from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Washington DC, Illinois, California, Michigan, Virginia, England, France, Jordan, Tunisia and Iraq and will continue to report from abroad whenever possible.
We are committed to expanding and enhancing the newsletter's contents and contacts with diverse communities and writers locally, nationally and internationally and to improving our coverage on Arabic language, literature, poetry, art and music as well as featuring Arab, Middle Eastern and Muslim personalities in the above fields.
Submissions of articles should be typed and double-spaced. We also accept work on disks (see computer guidelines). Viewpoints and reviews should be four pages or fewer; reports and interviews, five pages or less; scholarly research, up to six pages including a list of sources used; letters, no more than a page and a half. Please submit up to three poems at a time.
We prefer no footnotes (except for scholarly research); put short citations in the text. For book reviews, please include publisher, year and price.
All material should be signed and should include your address and phone number. Articles with anonymous names are not published. Please include a SASE with sufficient postage if you wish your work returned. Also, please include a biographical statement of up to 50 words or four lines.
Articles are due by January 31, April 20, July 10, and October 10. However, we cannot guarantee acceptance of any article until we have seen it. Articles are subject to editing due to space and/or other reasons. Please allow at least two weeks for response to submissions.
Payment effective January 1, 2001: $25, two free copies of the issue in which your article appears, and a one-year subscription.
Computer Guidelines
General Guidelines: Manuscript should be double-spaced, with 12-point type. Use Italics for book titles and foreign words. Don not underline. Leave one space between sentences. Hit return only at the end of a paragraph, and only once. Please do not indent the beginning of paragraphs
Dashes: Use two hyphens with no spaces. On the Mac, use option/shift/hyphen for a one dash.
Ellipses: Use three periods, with a space before and after each period. Use four periods when the ellipses ends the sentence.
Heads and titles: Capitalize all words except articles and prepositions, unless these are first or last words.
Pagination: Number all pages from the beginning.
Spell check: Use the spell checker if you have it.
Back-up: Always keep a back-up disk of your article. Also, please send a hard copy of your article with your disk.
Auxiliary material: Please include a list of artwork, etc., that you submit with the disk.
E-mail Address: AlwafaNews@aol.com If you are sending your manuscript electronically, please attach the file to your email message either as a Mac-formatted file or as a text.
Thank you for your interest in Al-Wafaa News.
Al-Wafaa News
P.O. Box 425125
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
Tel. (617) 323-6666
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E-mail: AlwafaNews@aol.com