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Download or read book Broken Mirrors written by Elias Khoury and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nassim, now married to his former love Hind, and old friends from the leftist political circles within which he once roamed under the nom de guerre Sinalcol. By the end of his six-month stay, he has been reintroduced to the chaos of cultural, religious and political battles that continue to rage in Lebanon. Overwhelmed by the experiences of his return, Karim is forced to contemplate his identity and his place in Lebanon's history. The story of Karim and his family is born of other stories that intertwine to form an imposing fresco of Lebanese society over the past fifty years. Broken Mirrors examines the roots of an endemic civil war and a country's unsettled past.
Book Synopsis The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol by : Elias Khoury
Download or read book The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol written by Elias Khoury and published by . This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from war? It was not to answer his brother Naseem's call and raise a hospital out the ashes; it was not to pursue past sweethearts and father the son his wife never gave him. It was to find a man, or the ghost of a man, a man known only as Sinalcol, legendary hero of the civil war, and a broken mirror of himself. In Beirut Karim will confront the fate of old comrades, the truth about his father's death and a brother who is all but a twin in appearance but shares nothing of his soul. And he will learn that peace is only ever fleeting in a war without end.
Book Synopsis A Gathering of Broken Mirrors: Memories of New York Survivors by : Anthony E. Shaw
Download or read book A Gathering of Broken Mirrors: Memories of New York Survivors written by Anthony E. Shaw and published by Atmosphere Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I search for answers to questions that, I suspect, are as old as human time itself." This collection presents memories, from a variety of New Yorkers, in different places and times. These are the lessons of life in the city: - Can people whose lives are filled with wicked acts also be loving and kind? - Why do only some people suffer cruel and unexplained tragic events? - Who will help when someone is slipping blindly into harm? - Must we pass through darkness to find light? - Does committing a sin irrevocably scar the sinner? - Who is pursuing whom: the person chasing the future, or the future luring the person? - Does forgiveness exist? - How does one solitary life fit in the force of history? - Are people ultimately punished for their misdeeds or rewarded for their kindnesses? - What is fate? - How does a person live a fulfilled life knowing death is to come? - Who answers unspoken questions? - Who is the savior? A Gathering of Broken Mirrors tells twenty-four New York stories that are jagged pieces of a broken mirror. These distinct voices of the famous, the infamous, and the anonymous, through the shards of their memories, open the hard road to what's next.
Download or read book Posthumous Images written by Chad Elias and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost two decades of its history (1975-90), Lebanon was besieged by sectarian fighting, foreign invasions, and complicated proxy wars. In Posthumous Images, Chad Elias analyzes a generation of contemporary artists who have sought, in different ways, to interrogate the contested memory of those years of civil strife and political upheaval. In their films, photography, architectural projects, and multimedia performances, these artists appropriate existing images to challenge divisive and violent political discourses. They also create new images that make visible individuals and communities that have been effectively silenced, rendered invisible, or denied political representation. As Elias demonstrates, these practices serve to productively unsettle the distinctions between past and present, the dead and the living, official history and popular memory. In Lebanon, the field of contemporary art is shown to be critical to remembering the past and reimagining the future in a nation haunted by a violent and unresolved war.
Book Synopsis Contexts of Violence in Comics by : Ian Hague
Download or read book Contexts of Violence in Comics written by Ian Hague and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Contexts of Violence in Comics asks the reader to consider the ways in which violence and its representations may be enabled or restricted by the contexts in which they take place. It analyzes how structures and organising principles, be they cultural, historical, legal, political or spatial, might encourage, demand or prevent violence. It deals with the issue of scale: violence in the context of war versus violence in the context of an individual murder, and provides insights into the context of war and peace, ethnic and identity-based violence, as well as examining issues of justice and memory. This will be a key text and essential reference for scholars and students at all levels in Comics Studies, and Cultural and Media Studies more generally.
Book Synopsis The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous by : Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
Download or read book The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous written by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new perspectives on Sa'dallah Wannous' significance as a playwright and public intellectual in the Arab world and world theatre.
Book Synopsis Sectarianism, De-Sectarianization and Regional Politics in the Middle East by : Samira Nasirzadeh
Download or read book Sectarianism, De-Sectarianization and Regional Politics in the Middle East written by Samira Nasirzadeh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Arab Uprisings, new ways of understanding sectarianism and sect-based differences emerged. But these perspectives, while useful, reduced sectarian identities to a consequence of either primordial tensions or instrumentalised identities. While more recently 'third way' approaches addressed the problems with these two positions, the complexity of secatarian identities within and across states remains unexplored. This book fills the gap in the literature to offer a more nuanced reading of both sectarian identities and also de-sectarianization across the Middle East. To do so, the volume provides a comparative account, looking at Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. It examines the ways in which sect-based difference shapes regional politics and vice versa. The book also contributes to burgeoning debates on the role of protest movements in sectarianism. Chapters are split across three main sections: the first looks at sects and states; the second traces the relationship between sects and regional dynamics; and the third examines de-sectarianization, that is, the contestation and destablization of sectarian identities in socio-political life. Each section provides a more holistic understanding of the role of sectarian identities in the contemporary Middle East and shows how sectarian groups operate within and across state borders, and why this has serious implications for the ordering of life across the Middle East.
Book Synopsis Witnessing the Witness of War Crimes, Mass Murder, and Genocide by : Manuela Consonni
Download or read book Witnessing the Witness of War Crimes, Mass Murder, and Genocide written by Manuela Consonni and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the concepts of "witnessing" and "witness" is highly relevant to the study of war crimes, mass murder and genocide. Through multiple readings, the volume shows the meanings and functions of witnessing in a political and historical context marked by the emergence of multiculturalism. The ultimate goal is the exploration of divergent and intersectional positions of the witness and witnessing as both concrete and hermeneutical categories. As a result, the mechanisms of social, political, and psychological oppression, murder and genocide will become tangible and understandable with greater precision and finesse.
Book Synopsis Embodying Xuanzang by : Benjamin Brose
Download or read book Embodying Xuanzang written by Benjamin Brose and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xuanzang (600/602–664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his transmission and translation of hundreds of Buddhist texts, and his training of a generation of masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Xuanzang’s life and legacy are the stuff of legend. In the centuries after his death, stories of his epic adventures and extraordinary accomplishments circulated in texts, images, songs, and plays. These mythic accounts recast the erudite pilgrim, translator, and court cleric as a magical monk who traveled not between China and India but between heaven and earth. Beset by bloodthirsty demons, this deified version of Xuanzang navigates the perilous paths of the netherworld to reach a pure land in the west. His purpose is to acquire a cache of sacred scriptures with the power to safeguard the living and deliver the dead. Along the way, he is guided and protected by a mischievous monkey, a lazy pig, a demonic monk, and a dragon horse. This imaginative and compelling tale received its fullest and most influential treatment in the famous sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West. In this engaging exploration of the confluence of myth, narrative, and ritual, Benjamin Brose uncovers the hidden histories of Xuanzang’s many afterlives. Beginning in the eleventh century and continuing to the present day, devotees have summoned Xuanzang and his band of misfit pilgrims to perform exorcisms, guide the spirits of the dead, and possess the bodies of insurgents. Embodying Xuanzang traces the postmortem travels of China’s greatest pilgrim and reveals the narrative and performative roots of China’s best-known novel.
Download or read book The Broken Mirror written by Kirk Douglas and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Nazis destroy his family, twelve-year-old Moishe gives up his Jewish faith, calls himself Danny, and is taken to New York where he tries to make the best of his life in a Catholic orphanage.
Book Synopsis Broken Mirrors by : Rachel Eovacious
Download or read book Broken Mirrors written by Rachel Eovacious and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet November, a girl who's always loved life. Well, it's complicated. November, born as a male, has a hard time adjusting into the lifestyle as a transgender teen. In fact, she's having such a hard time, she turns to the only solution she sees fit: suicide. When the last moment comes in her life, she is alerted. Literally. Her phone beeps, telling her that the semi-predicted terrorist attack is in full swing. And some of November's closest friends and her mother are missing. Transgender people are made for amazing things. Ages 12+ recommended
Download or read book The Broken Mirror written by Ben and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom and Cynthia's divorce saw an end a once-upon-a-time happy family and the beginning of discord in the lives of their identical twin daughters---Sophia and Cindy. Having been raised separated by the estranged parents living far apart, Cindy, who would always take sides with her mom, before and after the divorce, ended up hating Sophia, Tom's favourite. The cancer they carried affected their friends, particularly Daniel, who would live long enough to write the account---The Broken Mirror.
Download or read book A Broken Mirror written by Merc_ Rodoreda and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merc_ Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, which tells its story in brilliant fragments, a vision reflected and refracted and finally coming together in a richly articulated mosaic of life. Through this Broken Mirror, the reader sees events and characters spanning three generations and composing a kaleidoscopic family history ranging over six decades and turning upon events both intimate and historic?most notably the Spanish Civil War. Opening with Teresa Goday, the lovely young fishmonger?s daughter married to a wealthy old man, the story shifts from one perspective to another, reflecting from myriad angles the founding of a matriarchal dynasty?and its eventual, seemingly inevitable disintegration. A family saga extending from the prosperous Barcelona of the 1870s to the advent of the Franco dictatorship, A Broken Mirror is finally also a novel about the inexorable passing of time.
Download or read book BROKEN MIRRORS written by John Smale and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHY METAPHORS HELP? They work on a different path to logic; they stimulate emotional understanding.
