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Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story

Author : Alessandro Columbu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755644115
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story written by Alessandro Columbu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zakariyya Tamir is Syria's foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In this, the first English language monograph on Tamir's entire oeuvre, Alessandro Columbu examines Tamir's literary development in the context of changing political contexts, from his beginnings as a short story writer on local magazines in the late 1950s until the Syrian revolution of 2011. Thus, the movements from independence and Western-inspired modernisation to the rise of nationalism and socialism; war, defeat, occupation in the 1960s; the emergence of authoritarianism and the cult of personality of Hafiz al-Assad in the 1970s are charted in the context of Tamir's works. Therein, the significance of masculinity and patriarchy and its changing nature in relation to nationalism and authoritarianism are revealed as Tamir's foremost vehicles for social and political critique. The role of female sexuality and its disrupting/empowering nature vis-à-vis patriarchal institutions is also explored, as is the question of literary commitment and the relationship between authors and the authoritarian regime of Syria; homosexuality and representations of unconventional sexualities in general.

Generations of Dissent

Author : Alexa Firat
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654944
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Generations of Dissent written by Alexa Firat and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements, and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa. Born of the contributors’ research on dissidence and state co-option in a variety of artistic and creative fields, the volume’s core themes reflect the notion that the recent Arab uprisings did not appear in a cultural, political, or historical vacuum. Rather than focus on how protestors "finally" broke the walls of fear created by authoritarian regimes in the region, these essays show that the uprisings were rooted in multiple generations and various acts of resistance decades prior to 2010–11. Firat and Taleghani’s volume maps the complicated trajectories of artistic and creative dissent across time and space, showing how artists have challenged institutions and governments over the past six decades.

Mansi

Author : Tayeb Salih
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995636989
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Mansi written by Tayeb Salih and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif Bastawrous, sometimes known as Michael Joseph and sometimes as Ahmed Mansi Yousif. Playing Hardy to Salih's Laurel Mansi takes centre stage among memorable 20th-century arts and political figures, including Samuel Beckett, Margot Fonteyn, Omar Sharif, Arnold Toynbee, Richard Crossman and even the Queen, but always with Salih's poet "Master" al-Mutanabbi ready with an adroit comment. "Mansi casts fresh light on the experiences and attitudes of a key generation of emigré and exiled Arab writers, thinkers and activists in the West" - Boyd Tonkin

Ancient Mesopotamia

Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617767X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mesopotamia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.

The Crocodiles

Author : Youssef Rakha
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609805720
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Crocodiles written by Youssef Rakha and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, prose poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amid a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex, clumsy but determined intellectual bravado, and retranslations of the Beat poets. Youssef Rakha’s provocative, brutally intelligent novel of growth and change begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, forcefully capturing thirty years in the life of a living, breathing, daring, burning, and culturally incestuous Cairo.

The British Museum’s Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855

Author : Geoffrey Turner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435379
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The British Museum’s Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855 written by Geoffrey Turner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Turner's definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations by the British Museum at the Assyrian site of Nineveh documents the complete history of these excavations and provides detailed reconstructions of the architecture and sculpture in the palace of Sennacherib.

Banipal 53 Summer 2015

Author : Zakarīyā Tāmir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957442450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Banipal 53 Summer 2015 written by Zakarīyā Tāmir and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banipal of Summer 2015 has its main focus on the great Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer and his short stories. This time, when the Arab world is in major upheaval and turmoil (though some of us wonder if it has ever been otherwise), is indeed the time to turn to an author, Zakaria Tamer, who has given so much in pursuit of freedom of expression, human rights and liberty through his inspiring and inimitable writings.

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

Author : Etgar Keret
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN 13 : 159463324X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories written by Etgar Keret and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2004 by Toby Press.

Ancient Knowledge Networks

Author : Eleanor Robson
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787355942
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Knowledge Networks written by Eleanor Robson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria in the north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia to the south of modern-day Baghdad. She investigates how networks of knowledge enabled cuneiform intellectual culture to endure and adapt over the course of five world empires until its eventual demise in the mid-first century BC. In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment in writing about ‘Mesopotamian science’, as it has often been known, using geographical and social approaches to bring new insights into the intellectual history of the world’s first empires.

Arabic Short Stories

Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520089440
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Short Stories written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-12-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects twenty-four short stories by Arabic authors such as Bahaa Taher, Alifa Rifaat, and Edward El-Kharrat, which explore such themes as prostitution, adultery, and arranged marriage.

حديقة الخطاط

Author : Hassan Massoudy
Publisher : Saqi Books - Saqi Books
ISBN 13 : 9780863566196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book حديقة الخطاط written by Hassan Massoudy and published by Saqi Books - Saqi Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A feast for the eyes and balm for the soul."--Tlrama Hassan Massoudy's elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter to delicate spring growth, and from the dazzling sunshine and blooms of summer through the fading hues of autumn, he captures in calligraphy what countless poets have crafted with words. The proverb or quotation that inspired each artwork is handwritten in Arabic by Massoudy alongside the English texts on the facing page. Hassan Massoudy was born in Najaf, Iraq. He moved to France in 1969, where he studied at L'cole des Beaux-Arts. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Blood Feast

Author : Malika Moustadraf
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 195217709X
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Blood Feast written by Malika Moustadraf and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cult classic by Morocco’s foremost writer of life on the margins. Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) is a feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her stark interrogation of gender and sexuality in North Africa. Blood Feast is the complete collection of Moustadraf’s published short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. A teenage girl suffers through a dystopian rite of passage, a man with kidney disease makes desperate attempts to secure treatment, and a mother schemes to ensure her daughter passes a virginity test. Delighting in vibrant sensory detail and rich slang, Moustadraf takes an unflinching look at the gendered body, social class, illness, double standards, and desire, as lived by a diverse cast of characters. Blood Feast is a sharp provocation to patriarchal power and a celebration of the life and genius of one of Morocco’s preeminent writers.

Operational Risk

Author : Andreas Jobst
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451868030
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Operational Risk written by Andreas Jobst and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the generalized parametric measurement methods of aggregate operational risk in compliance with the regulatory capital standards for operational risk in the New Basel Capital Accord ("Basel II"). Operational risk is commonly defined as the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes and information systems, from misconduct by people or from unforeseen external events. Our analysis informs an integrated assessment of the quantification of operational risk exposure and the consistency of current capital rules on operational risk based on generalized parametric estimation.

Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period

Author : Kamal-Aldin Niknami
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303041776X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period written by Kamal-Aldin Niknami and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty-eight essays presents an up-to-date survey of pre-Islamic Iran, from the earliest dynasty of Illam to the end of Sasanian empire, encompassing a rich diversity of peoples and cultures. Historically, Iran served as a bridge between the earlier Near Eastern cultures and the later classical world of the Mediterranean, and had a profound influence on political, military, economic, and cultural aspects of the ancient world. Written by international scholars and drawing mainly on the field of practical archaeology, which traditionally has shared little in the way of theories and methods, the book provides crucial pieces to the puzzle of the national identity of Iranian cultures from a historical perspective. Revealing the wealth and splendor of ancient Iranian society – its rich archaeological data and sophisticated artistic craftsmanship – most of which has never before been presented outside of Iran, this beautifully illustrated book presents a range of studies addressing specific aspects of Iranian archaeology to show why the artistic masterpieces of ancient Iranians rank among the finest ever produced. Together, the authors analyze how archaeology can inform us about our cultural past, and what remains to still be discovered in this important region.

The Things We Don't Do

Author : Andrés Neuman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940953182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book The Things We Don't Do written by Andrés Neuman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature, the kind written by real poets, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes open no matter what . . . . The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers."--Roberto Bolaño Playful, philosophizing, and gloriously unpredictable, Andrés Neuman's short stories consider love, lechery, history, mortality, family secrets, therapy, Borges, mysterious underwear, translators, and storytelling itself. Here a relationship turns on a line drawn in the s∧ an analyst treats a patient who believeshe'sthe real analyst; a discovery in a secondhand shop takes on a cruel significance; a man decides to go to work naked one day. In these small scenes and brief moments Neuman confounds our expectations with dazzling sleight of hand. With a variety of forms and styles, Neuman opens up the possibilities for fiction, calling to mind other greats of Latin American letters, such as Cortázar, Bolaño, and Bioy Casares. Intellectually stimulating and told with a voice that is wry, questioning, sometimes mordantly funny, yet always generously humane,The Things We Don't Doconfirms Neuman's place as one of the most dynamic authors writing today. Andrés Neuman was born in Buenos Aires, and grew up and lives in Spain. He was included inGranta's "Young Spanish-language Novelists" issue and is the author of almost twenty works, two of which--Traveler of the Century andTalking to Ourselves-- have been translated into English.Traveler of the Century won the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, and was longlisted for the 2013 Best Translated book award, and shortlisted for the 2013Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Nick Caistoris a prolific British translator and journalist, best known for his translations of Spanish and Portuguese literature. He is a past winner of the Valle-Inclán Prize for translation and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4,Times Literary Supplement, and theGuardian. Lorenza Garcia has lived for extended periods in Spain, France, and Iceland. Since 2007, she has translated over a dozen novels and works of non-fiction from French and Spanish.

Nona's Room

Author : Cristina Cubas
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720619548
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Nona's Room written by Cristina Cubas and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner:Premio Nacional de Narrativa (2016)Premio de la Critica Española (2016)Premio Dulce Chacón (2016) Book of the Year 2015:La Vanguardia, El Cultural, Babelia and ABC An award-winning collection of Gothic and uncanny stories from one of Europe's most celebrated contemporary writers of short fiction. In Nona's Room the everyday fantasies of women slowly turn into nightmare, delusion and paranoia. A young girl who is envious of the attention given to her sister has a brutal awakening. A young woman, facing eviction, misplaces her trust in an old lady who invites her into her home. A mature woman spends the night in a hotel in Madrid and falls into a time warp... Cubas's stories are suffused with the chilling tones of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the psychological intensity of Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train.

A Boat to Lesbos

Author : Nouri Al-Jarrah
Publisher : Banipal Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780995636941
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book A Boat to Lesbos written by Nouri Al-Jarrah and published by Banipal Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boat to Lesbos, by Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah, was written as Syrian refugees endured frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages they suffered, seen through the eye of history, the poetry of Sappho and the travels of Odysseus.