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Book Synopsis Folktales of Iraq by : E. S. Stevens
Download or read book Folktales of Iraq written by E. S. Stevens and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language collection of Iraqi fairy tales, this enchanting book includes "The Fish That Laughed," "The Blind Sultan," and 46 other adventures, which will captivate readers of all ages.
Book Synopsis Drower's Folk-tales of Iraq by : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Download or read book Drower's Folk-tales of Iraq written by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folktales from Iraq, dating from the 1930s, found in the archives of the famous English Lady E. S. Drower (1879-1972), who was novelist, folklorist, specialist on the Mandaeans, and writer of travel accounts. New tales edited by Jorunn Buckley form a second volume of Drower's Folktales. The stories-carrying recognizable Near Eastern folk-tale features-feature monsters and heroes, maidens and fairies and they give a vivid picture of a now extinct oral folktale tradition. This Gorgias Press edition includes previously unpublished tales in addition to those of the 1931 edition.
Book Synopsis Folk-tales of Iraq by : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Download or read book Folk-tales of Iraq written by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Folk-Tales of Iraq by : Ethel Drower
Download or read book Folk-Tales of Iraq written by Ethel Drower and published by . This book was released on 1980-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Fistful of Pearls and Other Tales from Iraq by : Elizabeth Laird
Download or read book A Fistful of Pearls and Other Tales from Iraq written by Elizabeth Laird and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret serpents, devilish demons, mysterious magicians - the folk tales of Iraq teem with otherworldly creatures, magic and earthy humour. Award-winning novelist Elizabeth Laird has gathered together the very best Iraqi stories during her time in the Middle East - stories ranging from thieving porcupines who get their come-uppance to the hilarious tale of the chaos caused by a handsome stranger who knocks at a house inside which lurks a marriageable daughter. Meticulously researched and elegantly retold, the stories reveal the true, traditional heart of Iraq, far removed from today's news headlines.
Book Synopsis Folk-tales of ʻIraq by : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Download or read book Folk-tales of ʻIraq written by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Corpse Exhibition by : Hassan Blasim
Download or read book The Corpse Exhibition written by Hassan Blasim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s Redeployment does for the American perspective “[A] wonderful collection.” —George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The Guardian)—The Corpse Exhibition shows us the war as we have never seen it before. Here is a world not only of soldiers and assassins, hostages and car bombers, refugees and terrorists, but also of madmen and prophets, angels and djinni, sorcerers and spirits. Blending shocking realism with flights of fantasy, The Corpse Exhibition offers us a pageant of horrors, as haunting as the photos of Abu Ghraib and as difficult to look away from, but shot through with a gallows humor that yields an unflinching comedy of the macabre. Gripping and hallucinatory, this is a new kind of storytelling forged in the crucible of war.
Book Synopsis Folktales from Iraq by : C. G. Campbell
Download or read book Folktales from Iraq written by C. G. Campbell and published by Pine Street Books. This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sixteen Arabic stories from the Shia tribes of southern Iraq gathered in the late 1940s.
Book Synopsis Folktales from Iraq by : C. G. Campbell
Download or read book Folktales from Iraq written by C. G. Campbell and published by Pine Street Books. This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sixteen Arabic stories from the Shia tribes of southern Iraq gathered in the late 1940s.
Book Synopsis Sisters in War by : Christina Asquith
Download or read book Sisters in War written by Christina Asquith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist Christina Asquith explores one of the great untold sagas of the Iraq war: the attempt to bring women’s rights to Iraq, and the consequences for all those involved. On the heels of the invasion, twenty-two-year-old Zia accepts a job inside the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad, trusting that democracy will shield her burgeoning romance with an American contractor from the disapproval of her fellow Iraqis. But as resistance to the U.S. occupation intensifies, Zia and her sister, Nunu, a university student, are targeted by Islamic insurgents and find themselves trapped between their hopes for a new country and the violent reality of a misguided war. Asquith sets their struggle against the broader U.S. efforts to bring women’s rights to Iraq, weaving the sisters’ story with those of Manal, a Palestinian American women’s rights activist, and Heather, a U.S. army reservist, who work together to found Iraq’s first women’s center. After one of their female colleagues is gunned down on a highway, Manal and Heather must decide whether they can keep fighting for Iraqi women if it means risking their own lives. In Sisters in War, Christina Asquith introduces the reader to four women who dare to stand up for their rights in the most desperate circumstances. With compassion and grace, she vividly reveals the plight of women living and serving in Iraq and offers us a vision of how women’s rights and Islam might be reconciled.
Download or read book Arab Folktales written by Inea Bushnaq and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iraqi Women written by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2007-02-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play a seminal role in reshaping their country's future for the twenty-first century. Nadje Al-Ali challenges the myths and misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much needed gender perspective to bear on the central political issue of our time. Based on life stories and oral histories of Iraqi women, she traces the history of Iraq from post-colonial independence, to the emergence of a women's movement in the 1950s, Saddam Hussein's early policy of state feminism to the turn towards greater social conservatism triggered by war and sanctions. Yet, the book also shows that, far from being passive victims, Iraqi women have been, and continue to be, key social and political actors. Following the invasion, Al-Ali analyses the impact of occupation and Islamist movements on women's lives and argues that US-led calls for liberation has led to a greater backlash against Iraqi women.
Book Synopsis A Fistful of Pearls and Other Tales from Iraq by :
Download or read book A Fistful of Pearls and Other Tales from Iraq written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mythical creatures, enchanted encounters, strange serpents, and wise magicians are brought together in a rich compilation of Iraqi folk tales.
Download or read book Iraq + 100 written by Hassan Blasim and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Best Books of 2017! A groundbreaking anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be “The Other” “History is a hostage, but it will bite through the gag you tie around its mouth, bite through and still be heard.”—Operation Daniel In a calm and serene world, one has the luxury of imagining what the future might look like. Now try to imagine that future when your way of life has been devastated by forces beyond your control. Iraq + 100 poses a question to Iraqi writers (those who still live in that nation, and those who have joined the worldwide diaspora): What might your home country look like in the year 2103, a century after a disastrous foreign invasion? Using science fiction, allegory, and magical realism to challenge the perception of what it means to be “The Other”, this groundbreaking anthology edited by Hassan Blasim contains stories that are heartbreakingly surreal, and yet utterly recognizable to the human experience. Though born out of exhaustion, fear, and despair, these stories are also fueled by themes of love, family, and endurance, and woven through with a delicate thread of hope for the future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Folk Tales of 'Iraq by : Ethel Stefana Stevens
Download or read book Folk Tales of 'Iraq written by Ethel Stefana Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk-tales from Iraq written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A Collection Of The Folk Tales From Iraq Which Are From The Vernacular.
Download or read book The Iraqi Christ written by Hassan Blasim and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** WINNER OF THE ENGLISH PEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION AWARD ** **LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2013 FRANK O'CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD** **BOOK OF THE MONTH IN THE SKINNY** A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds himself blackmailed by an insurgent into the ultimate act of terror… A deviser of crosswords survives a car-bomb attack, only to discover he is now haunted by one of its victims… Fleeing a robbery, a Baghdad shopkeeper falls into a deep hole, at the bottom of which sits a djinni and the corpse of a soldier from a completely different war… From legends of the desert to horrors of the forest, Blasim’s stories blend the fantastic with the everyday, the surreal with the all-too-real. Taking his cues from Kafka, his prose shines a dazzling light into the dark absurdities of Iraq’s recent past and the torments of its countless refugees. The subject of this, his second collection, is primarily trauma and the curious strategies human beings adopt to process it (including, of course, fiction). The result is a masterclass in metaphor – a new kind of story-telling, forged in the crucible of war, and just as shocking. 'At first, you receive Blasim with the kind of shocked applause you’d award a fairly transgressive stand-up. You’re quite elated. Then you stop reading it at bedtime. At his best, Blasim produces a corrosive mixture of broken lyricism, bitter irony and hyper-realism which topples into the fantastic and the quotidian in the same reading moment.' – M John Harrison 'Perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive...' – The Guardian. 'Bolaño-esque in its visceral exuberance, and also Borgesian in its gnomic complexity... a master of metaphor.' – The Guardian.
