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  • Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures

    Literature, Cinema and Music

    Edited by Karima Laachir, Saeed Talajooy ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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    The Secrets of the Selfby Muhammad Iqbal, tr. by Reynold A. NicholsonA philosophical poem by the intellectual founder of the nation of Pakistan.Asrar I Khudi. The form of existence is an effect of the Self. Whatsoever thou seest is a secret of the Self.The Asrár-i Khudí was first published at Lahore in 1915. I read it soon afterwards and thought so highly of it that I wrote to Iqbal, whom I had ... Read more

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  • Jasmine and Stars

    Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran

    by Fatemeh Keshavarz ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy. Her fresh perspective on present-day Iran provides a rare insight into this rich culture alive with artistic expression but virtually unknown to most Americans.Keshavarz introduces readers to two ... Read more

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  • Art & War

    Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction

    by Lavie Tidhar, Shimon Adaf ...
    Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel’s most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum – Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot – the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous ... Read more

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  • The Dune's Twisted Edge

    Journeys in the Levant

    by Gabriel Levin ...
    “How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures . . . trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once known with mingled affection and wariness as Levantine?” So begins poet Gabriel Levin in his journeys in the Levant, the exotic land that stands at ... Read more

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  • Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

    A Postcolonial Outlook

    Edited by Walid El Hamamsy, Mounira Soliman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the ... Read more

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  • The World in a Book

    Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

    by Elias Muhanna ...
    A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—al-Nuwayri’s The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. A storehouse of ... Read more

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  • Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

    New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘?mmiyya

    by N. Radwan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry. ... Read more

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  • Proust among the Nations

    From Dreyfus to the Middle East

    by Jacqueline Rose ...
    Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In Proust among the Nations, she takes the development of her thought on this crisis a stage further, revealing it as a distinctly Western problem.In ... Read more

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  • Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema

    Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination

    by Florian Stadtler ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’, ‘Mythological’ and ‘Historical’, Stadtler examines how Rushdie’s writing foregrounds the epic, the ... Read more

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  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

    by Jeffrey Sacks ...
    In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El ... Read more

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  • Arabs in the Mirror

    Images and Self-Images from Pre-Islamic to Modern Times

    by Nissim Rejwan ...
    What is an Arab? Though many in the West would answer that question with simplistic stereotypes, the reality is far more complex and interesting. Arabs themselves have been debating Arab identity since pre-Islamic times, coming to a variety of conclusions about the nature and extent of their “Arabness.” Likewise, Westerners and others have attempted to analyze Arab identity, reaching mostly ... Read more

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