Although not nearly a complete list of Jamila’s research library, the following list provides a good start to begin researching the same materials to which Jamila had access when writing the articles for Habibi magazine selected for this volume.
- The Academy, Arts news Annual XXXIII.
- Alexander, Arsene. The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1970.
- Alexandru, Tiberiu. The Folk Music of Egypt: An Anthology. Made in Collaboration with Emile Azer Wahba. United Arab Republic Ministry of Culture EST, c1967.
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Directed by Arthur Lubin. Universal Pictures, 1944.
- An Antiquary. The Dance: Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, Ltd, 1911.
- Arabian Nights. Directed by John Rawlins. Universal Pictures, 1942.
- Around the World in 2,000 Pictures. Doubleday, 1959.
- Asbury, Herbert. The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1933.
- Ashrev, Aly. “Navels that Shake the Men on Top”. Sketch 2 (Aug 1974).
- Bakst, Leon. Bakst. New York: Rizzoli Press, 1977.
- Basserman, Lujo. The Oldest Profession: A History of Prostitution. New York: Stein & Day, 1968.
- Belgiojoso, Princess. Oriental Harems and Scenery. New York: Carleton, 1862.
- Berger, Morroe. “The Arab danse de ventre”, Dance Perspectives 10 (1961).
- Bida, Alexandre and E. Barbot. Souvenirs d’Egypte. Lithographs. Paris: Lemercier, Paris, 1851.
- Bloom, Sol. The Autobiography of Sol Bloom. New York: Putnam, 1948.
- Bonanni, Filippo. Gabinetto Armonico. Engravings. 1723.
- Bonanni, Filippo. The Showcase of Musical Instruments: All 152 Illustrations from the 1723 “Gabinetto Armoico”. New York: Dover Publications, 1964.
- Bourguignon, Erika. “Trance Dance”. Dance Perspectives 35 (Autumn 1968).
- Butler, Phyllis. “Man of a Thousand Myths”. San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle (23 Sep 1979).
- Campbell, Joseph. The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology. Viking Press, 1959.
- Cardashian, Vahan. Actual Life in the Turkish Harem. 1914.
- Chicago Times Portfolio of the Midway Types. Chicago: The American Engraving Company, 1895.
- The Columbian Gallery: A Portfolio of Photographs from the World’s Fair. Werner Company, Chicago, 1894.
- Coxe, A. Cleveland, ed. The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 2: Fathers of the Second Century. T. & T. Clark, 1896.
- Coulson, Thomas. Mata Hari: Courtesan and Spy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930.
- Dieulafoy, Madame Jane. At Susa: the Ancient Capita of the Kings of Persian. Narrative of Travel through Western Persian and Excavations made at the Site of the Lost City of the Lilies 1884-1886. Translated from French to English by Frank Linstow White. Philadephia: Gebbie & Co., 1890.
- Ebers, Georg. Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque. Vol. 1. New York: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1878.
- “Egypt’s National Dancer Gets American”. Life (22 Oct 1951): 46.
- “Egypt’s New Charmer: A Young Friend Dances for Vacationing Farouk”, Life (4 Sep 1950) 28.
- Emmanuel, Maurice. The Antique Greek Dance after Sculptured and Painted Figures. Translated by Harriet Jean Beauley. New York: John Lane Company, 1916.
- Field, Michael and Frances Field. “An Exploration of the Exotic”. In Foods of the World: A Quintet of Cuisines. New York: Time-Life Books, 1970.
- France, Anatole (Francois-Anatole Thibault). Thais Part the Second The Papyrus. Translated to English by Robert B. Douglas. London: John Lane The Bodle Head, 1928.
- Fraser, Lilly Grove and other writers. Dancing. London: Longmans, Geen, and Co., 1907.
- Gobineau, Arthur, combe de. The Dancing Girl of Shamakha and Other Asiatic Tales. Translated by Helen Morgenthau Fox. London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd, 1926.
- Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey. Scenes from Every Land. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1907.
- Hammerton, Sir John Alexander. Peoples of All Nations: Their Life To-day and the Story of Their Past. Vol. 7. The Fleetway House,1924.
- Herm, Gerhard. The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient World. Translated from German to English by Caroline Hillier. London: Book Club Associates, 1975.
- Hofmann, Wilfried. “Algeria”, The Dancing World, Ballet Today (c1965):16-18.
- Home, Charles Frances. The World and Its People: or a Comprehensive Tour of all Lands Vol. 1. New York: I. R. Hiller, c1924-5.
- Housman, Laurence. Stories from the Arabian Nights. With drawings by Edmund Dulac. New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.
- Howe, Russell Warren. Mata Hari: The True Story. New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1986.
- Humphrey, Doris. “New Dance: An Unfinished Autobiography”, Dance Perspectives 25 (1966).
- Hunter, James, A.M. The Golden Treasury of the History, Topography, Literature Science, Art and Religion of the Various Countries of the Globe. Philadelphia: Thayer, Merriam & Co., Ltd., 1891.
- Hutchinson, H. N., J. W. Gregory and R. Lydekker. The Living Races of Mankind. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1902.
- James, Edwin Oliver. The Cult of the Mother-Goddess: An Archaeological and Documentary Study. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1959.
- Julian, Philippe. The Orientalists: European Painters of Eastern Scenes. Translated by Helga and Dinah Harrison. Phaidon Oxford, 1977.
- Justine. Directed by George Cukor. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 1969.
- Lane, Edward William. Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1908.
- Levinson, Andre. Bakst: The Story of the Artist’s Life. New York: Benjamin Blom,1971.
- Lewis, Raphaela. Everyday Life in Ottoman Turkey. London: Batsford, 1971.
- Lynch, Jeremiah. Egyptian Sketches. London: Edward Arnold, 1890.
- Martin, Dahris Butterworth. I Know Tunisia. I. Washburn, Inc., 1943.
- Matteo. “Woods that Dance”, Dance Perspectives 33 (1968).
- “Mazda Motion: In U.S. Samia and Flashlight Reveal Secrets of Ancient Art”, Life (24 Mar 1952): 45-46.
- McCullagh, Francis. The Fall of Abd-Ul-Hamid. London: Metheun & Co, 1910.
- Meri, La. “Learning the Dance du Ventre”, Dance Perspectives 10 (1961).
- Moore, Thomas. Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1884.
- Morier, James. Hajji Baba of Ispahan. New York: Random House, 1937.
- Neumann, Erich. The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.
- The New Oxford History of Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1957.
- Ossendowski, Ferdinand. Oasis and Simoon: The Breath of the Desert; The Account of a Journey through Algeria and Tunisia. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1927.
- Ostrovsky, Erika. Eye of Dawn: The Rise and Fall of Mata Hari. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1978.
- “On the fringe of the great desert”, National Geographic Magazine, Feb 1928.
- “Over the roof of the world”, National Geographic Magazine (1932).
- “People and Places of Northern Africa: 16 Full-page Engravings. National Geographic Vol. 42/4 (October 1922).
- Powell, Thomas, ed. Illustrated Home Book of the World’s Great Nations. New York: The Werner Company, 1898.
- Racinet, August. Le Costume Historique. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1876-88.
- Raffe, Walter George. Dictionary of the Dance. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1965.
- Raffe, Walter George. Dictionary of the Dance. London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1975.
- Renault, Mary. The Persian Boy. London: Pantheon Books, 1972.
- Robinson, James Harvey. The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1921.
- Runyon, Milton and Vilma F Bergane (eds). Around the World in 2000 Pictures. New York: Doubleday, 1959.
- Sachs, Curt. The History of Musical Instruments. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1940.
- Sachs, Curt. The Rise of Music in the Ancient World. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1943.
- Salome. Directed by Charles Bryant. Nazimova Productions, 1923.
- Sanger, W. W. History of Prostitution. New York: Eugenics Publishing Co, 1937.
- Schlundt, Christena. “Into the Mystic with Miss Ruth”, Dance Perspectives 46 (1971).
- Seidl, A. Music of the Modern World. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1895.
- Simpich, Frederick. “Along the Nile, Through Egypt and the Sudan with 29 Illustrations from Photographs”. National Geographic Vol. 42/4 October (1922).
- Slave Girl. Directed by Lamont Charles. Universal Pictures, 1947.
- Smith, Frances. Eastern Costumes (engravings). 1763.
- Smith, Robertson W. Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia. Cambridge: University Press, 1885.
- Smith, William. A Dictionary of the Bible 4 volumes. New York: John Winston, 1884.
- The Son of the Sheik. Directed by George Fitzmaurice. United Artists, 1926.
- Spencer, Charles. Leon Bakst. London: Academy Editions, 1973.
- St. John, James Augustus. Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. Lithographs. James Madden, 1848.
- Steegmuller, Francis, ed. “Experiment in Sensuality: New Glimpses into a Great Writer’s Travel Diary”, Vogue (Feb 1973): 169, 197-99.
- Sudan. Directed by John Rawlins. Universal Pictures, 1945.
- Swanson, Vern G. Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977.
- Tupper, Allen H. Around the World with Eyes Wide Open. New York: The Christian Herald, Loius Klopsch, 1898.
- Trachtman, Paul. “An Epic Showdown at the O.K. Corral” in The Gunfighters (The Old West Vol. 8). New York: Time-Life Books, 1974.
- Waagenaar, Sam. Mata Hari: A Biography. New York: Appleton Century, 1965.
- Wall, O. A. Sex and Sex Worship. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, 1922.
- Wilkerson, John Gardner. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854.
- Wilkerson, John Gardner. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians Vol. 2. London: John Murray, 1890.
- Yaggy, Levi W. and T. L. Haines. Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life. New York: Standard Publishing House, 1882.
- Zaimi, Nexhmie. Daughter of the Eagle: The Autobiography of an Albanian Girl. New York: I Washburn, 1937.
