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Author : Khalid Bekkaoui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789981829602
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Tales of Fez written by Khalid Bekkaoui and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Hamilton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857720155
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Last Storytellers written by Richard Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences. But this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The competing distractions of television, movies and the internet have drawn the crowds away from the storytellers and few have the desire to learn the stories and continue their legacy. Richard Hamilton has witnessed at first hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition and, in the labyrinth of the Marrakech medina, has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb.
Author : Eleanor Hoffmann
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781481865081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Mischief in Fez written by Eleanor Hoffmann and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " This is a tale of djinns, - of their mischief and their magic in the Moroccan city of Fez." The 14th century city of Fez entertains and informs young readers through action set in the palace, mosque, and market place in a tale of adventure and delicious danger to the household of Mohammed Ali and his son Mousa. First published in 1943, this extraordinary story blends the exotic traditions of a Moroccan household with ancient legends of spirits, both good and bad. Who is the mysterious bride with her pet gazelle? When the fountain stops, the orange tree is bare, and scorpions appear, the household in Fez is unsettled. More mischief is on its way....
Author : Suzanna Clarke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416545859
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book A House in Fez written by Suzanna Clarke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and Arab-style houses, gorgeous with intricate, if often shabby, mosaic work. While vacationing in Morocco, Suzanna Clarke and her husband, Sandy, are inspired to buy a dilapidated, centuries-old riad in Fez with the aim of restoring it to its original splendor, using only traditional craftsmen and handmade materials. So begins a remarkable adventure that is bewildering, at times hilarious, and ultimately immensely rewarding. A House in Fez chronicles their meticulous restoration, but it is also a journey into Moroccan customs and lore and a window into the lives of its people as friendships blossom. When the riad is finally returned to its former glory, Suzanna finds she has not just restored an old house, but also her soul.
Author : Fez Inkwright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781454956716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Botanical Curses and Poisons written by Fez Inkwright and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poison has caused some of history's most dramatic deaths--yet a fine line separates healing from killing: the difference lies in the dosage! Folklorist Fez Inkwright returns to the archives to reveal fascinating stories behind a variety of lethal plants, witching herbs, and funghi. Going from A to Z, she covers everything from apple to oleander, beautifully illustrating each plant herself. This enthralling treasury is packed with insight and lore on the mysteries of everyday flora.
Author : H. Lebbady
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230100732
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Feminist Traditions in Andalusi-Moroccan Oral Narratives written by H. Lebbady and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Lebbady has compiled and translated seven Andalusi women's tales from the north of Morocco, and analyzes them from a postcolonial theoretical perspective, finding in the women far more wit and agency than western stereotypes would suggest.
Author : Shakeela Z Hassan MD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781677424085
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book A Starry Crown written by Shakeela Z Hassan MD and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FEZ is complicated in origin, beautiful on the head, unpopular in modern times, but has seen more glorious days. Worn by the Moroccans during protests against French invasion to the period when men in Libya and Egypt were jailed for wearing them, the FEZ has moved with revolutions and has become popular or unpopular, in relation to those in power. Well, history has its place. Journey with me as I take you back 60 years to a special moment where me and my husband Zia created our own brand of history.Is there any way to predict how a dining table conversation would materialize into designing a FEZ, "A Starry Crown"? The head gear referred to as a FEZ, became a historic iconic symbol and personal defining mark of distinction for The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the leader of The Nation of Islam. Not only was this a mark of distinction, it personified his message. In hindsight, Brother Muhammad wanted to refresh his image and that's exactly what happened.After all, every iconic image has its beginning. In 1961, he contemplated adding a special touch to his appearance. As the story unfolds, we learned the value of communication, forthright interactions and volunteer participation. These traits were instrumental as a precursor for teamwork and the realization of a dream. A vision, an answer to questions, producing results, all because of a man who desired change. Amazing grace!I gratefully refer to it as "God's Will," the fruition of a purposeful encounter and the result of working together to formulate and produce results. The noteworthy simplicity, unpredicted chance encounters, and human interactions complement and set the stage for a FEZ in the making. Perhaps, it is fair to say, "Yes, it was meant to be!"Writing about the beginning stages of development of the FEZ, drew my attention to how swift and serene this journey has been for me. With all due respect and rationale, the term "FEZ" will be used in sharing my story. Brother Elijah flashed his signature smile every time he called it a FEZ, and each time he wore it, doing what he loved to do, leading his community to faith and righteousness for common good, faith and responsibility.The FEZ, as Brother Muhammad wished to call it, is a story about a hat that was created as a result of a chance encounter that took place between my husband, Dr. Zia Hassan and myself at the dinner table of Brother Elijah Muhammad and Sister Clara Muhammad.He wore the FEZ on regular and special occasions while meeting and greeting dignitaries, local, national and international leaders and visitors. It was specially a part of his presence on stage while addressing his audience. The annual Savior's Day convention, which was held each February, attracted massive amounts of Nation of Islam followers, eager to meet the Leader and pay him respect. There he was, wearing the specially designed FEZ, an embroidered embellished velvet cap. Remarkably, it was not commissioned, requested or even discussed in any prior conversation or interaction. Until, of course, I came along.The cap - the FEZ, reached its historic and iconic presence over the past fifty years, as a hallmark of the leadership brand of the Nation of Islam's leader, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. In my recollection, to the best of my knowledge, a spontaneous, unexpected turn of events defined a chance encounter and an inadvertent conversation from the heart turned an ordinary moment into an extraordinary historic milestone. This is etched in my memory. It gives me a sense of humbling pride and blessed joy to say, Zia and I became part and parcel of the evolving strength, and Mark of Distinction of the Leadership of Honorable Elijah Muhammad for six decades. All Praise Be to God!I did not dwell on how and why these events occurred. I am convinced, whatever happens, happens for a reason. It's God's Will after all. In life, we must capture each moment, listen attentively and do the best with what we have.
Author : Rachel Newcomb
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812241242
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Women of Fes written by Rachel Newcomb and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive fieldwork, Women of Fes shows how Moroccan women create their own forms of identity through work, family, and society. The book also examines how women's lives are positioned vis-à-vis globalization, human rights, and the construction of national identity.
Author : Walter Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Morocco that was written by Walter Harris and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Twenty-nine Tales from the French written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Priestley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599906988
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror written by Chris Priestley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spine-tingling novel has more than enough fear factor for the most ardent fan of scary stories. Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house, but regular visits from his nephew, Edgar, give him the opportunity to recount some of the frightening stories he knows. As each tale unfolds, an eerie pattern emerges of young lives gone awry in the most terrifying of ways. Young Edgar begins to wonder just how Uncle Montague knows all these ghastly tales. This clever collection of stories-within-a-story is perfectly matched with darkly witty illustrations by David Roberts. Look for the other spine-tingling book in Chris Priestley's Tales of Terror series, Tales of Terror from the Black Ship!
Author : Abdellah Taïa
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1584351942
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Another Morocco written by Abdellah Taïa and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of life in North Africa that flirt with strategies of revelation and concealment, by the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. —from Another Morocco In 2006, Abdellah Taïa returned to his native Morocco to promote the Moroccan release of his second book, Le rouge du tarbouche (The Red of the Fez). During this book tour, he was interviewed by a reporter for the French-Arab journal Tel Quel, who was intrigued by the themes of homosexuality she saw in his writing. Taïa, who had not publically come out and feared the repercussions for himself and his family of doing so in a country where homosexuality continues to be outlawed, nevertheless consented to the interview and subsequent profile, “Homosexuel envers et contre tous” (“Homosexual against All Odds”). This interview made him the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. Another Morocco collects short stories from Taïa's first two books, Mon Maroc (My Morocco) and Le rouge du tarbouche, both published before this pivotal moment. In these stories, we see a young writer testing the porousness of boundaries, flirting with strategies of revelation and concealment. These are tales of life in a working-class Moroccan family, of a maturing writer's fraught relationship with language and community, and of the many cities and works that have inspired him. With a reverence for the subaltern—for the strength of women and the disenfranchised—these stories speak of humanity and the construction of the self against forces that would invalidate its very existence. Taïa's work is, necessarily, a political gesture.
Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466829303
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Trickster Travels written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.
Author : Fatima Mernissi
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780201489378
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Dreams Of Trespass written by Fatima Mernissi and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1995-09-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "wonderful and enchanting" memoir tells the revelatory true story of one Muslim girl's life in her family's French Moroccan harem, set against the backdrop of World War II (The New York Times Book Review). "I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this illuminating narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth -- women who, without access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. A beautifully written account of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex, Dreams of Trespass illuminates what it was like to be a modern Muslim woman in a place steeped in tradition.
Author : Becky L. Schulthies
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823289737
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Channeling Moroccanness written by Becky L. Schulthies and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2022 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies What does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez. Over the last decade, laments of language and media failure in Fez have focused not just on social relations that used to be and have been lost but also on what ought to be and had yet to be realized. Such laments have transpired in a range of communication channels, from objects such as devotional prayer beads and remote controls; to interactional forms such as storytelling, dress styles, and orthography; to media platforms like television news, religious stations, or WhatsApp group chats. Channeling Moroccanness examines these laments as ways of speaking that created Moroccanness, the feeling of participating in the ongoing formations of Moroccan relationality. Rather than furthering the discourse about Morocco’s conflict between liberal secularists and religious conservatives, this ethnography shows the subtle range of ideologies and practices evoked in Fassi homes to calibrate Moroccan sociality and political consciousness.
Author : Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317548221
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The City in the Muslim World written by Mohammad Gharipour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a critical, yet innovative, perspective on the cultural interactions between the "East" and the "West", this book questions the role of travel in the production of knowledge and in the construction of the idea of the "Islamic city". This volume brings together authors from various disciplines, questioning the role of Western travel writing in the production of knowledge about the East, particularly focusing on the cities of the Muslim world. Instead of concentrating on a specific era, chapters span the Medieval and Modern eras in order to present the transformation of both the idea of the "Islamic city" and also the act of traveling and travel writing. Missions to the East, whether initiated by military, religious, economic, scientific, diplomatic or touristic purposes, resulted in a continuous construction, de-construction and re-construction of the "self" and the "other". Including travel accounts, which depicted cities, extending from Europe to Asia and from Africa to Arabia, chapters epitomize the construction of the "Orient" via textual or visual representations. By examining various tools of representation such as drawings, paintings, cartography, and photography in depicting the urban landscape in constant flux, the book emphasizes the role of the mobile individual in defining city space and producing urban culture. Scrutinising the role of travellers in producing the image of the world we know today, this book is recommended for researchers, scholars and students of Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Architecture and Urbanism.
Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801864407
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (644 download)
Download or read book The Sand Child written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.
