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  • America in An Arab Mirror

    Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology

    de K. Abdel-Malek ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • Night & Horses & The Desert

    An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature

    Edición de Robert Irwin ...
    This collection of Arabic literature is "a joy to read. . . . a journey through eleven centuries of a lost world, with a surprise on almost every page" ( Financial Times).Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject of classical Arabic ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Summary and Analysis of The Kite Runner

    Based on the Book by Khaled Hosseini

    de Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Kite Runner tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Khaled Hosseini's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

    New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘?mmiyya

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Wedded to the Land?

    Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis

    de Mary N. Layoun, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study: Greek refugees’ displacement from Asia Minor into Greece in 1922, the 1974 right-wing Cypriot coup ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Arabic Literature

    An Overview

    de Pierre Cachia ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually treated separately, are presented together. Cachia's observations are not subordinated to any pre-formed literary theory, but describe and ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Homoerotics of Orientalism

    de Joseph Boone ...
    One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • DAVID OF SASSUN

    NATIONAL EPOS OF ARMENIA

    de F.B. Collins (Translator) ...
    This volume is an essential reading for all who love literature, especially for those who would like to familiar themselves with the essence of the Armenian literature. The David of Sassoun (Sasountsi David - Սասունցի Դավիթ) heroic tail will bring back the nostalgic feelings associated with revisiting the Armenian classic literature. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Arabs in the Mirror

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • When Heroes Love

    The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

    de Susan Ackerman ...
    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, along with other ambiguous erotic and sexual language found in the Gilgamesh epic and the biblical David ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Classical Arabic Stories

    An Anthology

    Edición de Salma Khadra Jayyusi ...
    Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These works also speak to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam, mirroring the bustling life of the Muslim Arabs and Islamized Persians and reflecting the sure stamp of an urbanity that had settled ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas

    A Brief Romance

    de Yaron Peleg ...
    Over the past two decades, profound changes in Israel opened its society to powerful outside forces and the dominance of global capitalism. As a result, the centrality of Zionism as an organizing ideology waned, prompting expressions of anxiety in Israel about the coming of a post-Zionist age. The fears about the end of Zionism were quelled, however, by the Palestinian uprising in 2000, which ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD