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The Mountain Of green Tea and other Stories

Author : Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774242670
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain Of green Tea and other Stories written by Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yahya Taher Abdullah writes with a poetic vividness that is unblurred by outside influences. His raw material is the harsh life of the peasants of Upper Egypt, or of Cairo seen through the eyes of peasants who have migrated there in search of work. Few writers delve so subtly into a society that is strictly bounded by religious and social mores and rigid codes of behavior. It is a society without sophistication, whose members concern themselves with such basic matters as money and personal honor, and where death is ever-present to put an end to their futile endeavors. Abdullah deals with a psychological world that has no equivalent in Western life or literature. Unfamiliar though it may be, it is made real and significant by his sensitivity and artistry.

The Mountain of Green Tea and Other Stories

Author : Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain of Green Tea and Other Stories written by Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mountain of Green Tea and Other Stories

Author : Yahya Taher Abdulla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain of Green Tea and Other Stories written by Yahya Taher Abdulla and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mountain of Green Tea

Author : Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain of Green Tea written by Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In The Shoes of the Other

Author : Samia Mehrez
Publisher : Al Kotob Khan for Publishing and Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9778031134
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book In The Shoes of the Other written by Samia Mehrez and published by Al Kotob Khan for Publishing and Distribution. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Shoes of the Other Interdisciplinary Essays in Translation Studies from Cairo “This anthology continues a tradition that is intended to give impetus to the development of Egyptian and Arab discourses on translation both within and beyond the American University in Cairo. It is a welcome and important contribution to raising the profile of translation, in all its forms, and of translators in the region.” Mona Baker, University of Manchester “Since its founding, the Center for Translation Studies has hosted an astonishing number of academic events that are among the most intellectually serious and internationally prominent of AUC’s activities in the humanities; this has been noted by universities across the world. Indeed, the “In Translation” lecture series is, without any exaggeration, the most impressive public lecture series of its kind anywhere, and far beyond anything comparable in Africa or the Middle East.” Adam Talib, Durham University “AUC’s Center for Translation Studies has proved itself a vital interpreter of texts and events generated by Egypt’s turbulent political history and fervent artistic culture. I know of no other group of scholars with equal competence in these matters and with an equivalent respect in the field.” Anthony Cordingley, Université Paris VIII

The Lamp of Umm Hashim and other stories

Author :
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774249709
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book The Lamp of Umm Hashim and other stories written by and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures Together with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and--of course--Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the influence of Western literature, began to practice genres of creative writing that were new to the traditions of classical Arabic. In the first story in this volume, the very short ''Story in the Form of a Petition, '' Yahya Hakki demonstrates his ease with gentle humor, a form rare in Arabic writing. In the following two stories, ''Mother of the Destitute'' and ''A Story from Prison, '' he describes with typical sympathy individuals who, less privileged than others, somehow manage to scrape through life's hardships. The latter story deals with the people of Upper Egypt, for whom the writer had a special understanding and affection. It is, however, for the title story (in fact, more of a novella) of this collection that the writer is best known. Recounting the difficulties faced by a young man who is sent to England to study medicine and who then returns to Egypt to pit his new ideals against tradition, ''The Lamp of Umm Hashim'' was the first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures.

Ten Again and Other Stories

Author : William M. Hutchins
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 161797188X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Ten Again and Other Stories written by William M. Hutchins and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some of al-Mazini's best short fiction, including two novellas: Midu and His Accomplices and Ten Again. Midu is an engaging, well-liked army officer who assisted by almost every other character in the story arranges a faux heist from his uncle's library in order to allow young love to run its course. In Ten Again, a man awakes to find that he has returned to childhood, on the day of his tenth birthday: his wife, who is being wooed by a most obnoxious suitor, is now his mother, and his two sons torment him mercilessly at his birthday party. In al-Mazini's skillful hands, the short stories included here illuminate a lively fictional world: from a drunken encounter with a parrot to an undertaker's attempt to provide a cadaver with a believer's contented smile. An unmarried woman dreams of her unborn daughter, who is impatient to be born; and a reclusive author who has chosen to disappear from Cairo's literary scene is tracked down to his obvious disgust by an intrepid researcher. Rich in insight, imagination, and humor, these stories are a splendid introduction to a major figure in the early generation of Egyptian writers.

ten again : and other stories

Author : Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Qādir Māzinī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774249471
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book ten again : and other stories written by Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Qādir Māzinī and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some of al-Mazini's best short fiction, including two novellas: Midu and His Accomplices and Ten Again. Midu is an engaging, well-liked army officer who--assisted by almost every other character in the story--arranges a faux heist from his uncle's library in order to allow young love to run its course. In Ten Again, a man awakes to find that he has returned to childhood, on the day of his tenth birthday: his wife, who is being wooed by a most obnoxious suitor, is now his mother, and his two sons torment him mercilessly at his birthday party. In al-Mazini's skillful hands, the short stories included here illuminate a lively fictional world: from a drunken encounter with a parrot to an undertaker's attempt to provide a cadaver with a believer's contented smile. An unmarried woman dreams of her unborn daughter, who is impatient to be born; and a reclusive author who has chosen to disappear from Cairo's literary scene is tracked down--to his obvious disgust--by an intrepid researcher. Rich in insight, imagination, and humor, these stories are a splendid introduction to a major figure in the early generation of Egyptian writers.

Memories In Translation

Author : Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972436
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Memories In Translation written by Denys Johnson-Davies and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic English translator of our time." With more than twenty-five volumes of translated Arabic novels, short stories, plays, and poetry to his name, and a career spanning some sixty years, he has brought the works of a host of writers from across the Arab world to an ever-widening English readership. Here he tells the story of a life in translation, and gives intimate glimpses of many of the Arab writers who are becoming increasingly known in the west. In the 1940s, while teaching at Cairo University, he came to know such iconic figures as Yahya Hakki, Tewfik al-Hakim, Yusuf Idris, and of course Naguib Mahfouz. Later when he lived in Beirut, that other great literary center of the Arab world, he spent time with such poets as Tawfic Sayigh, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, and Boland al-Haydari. He was already a close friend of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra from his college days at Cambridge, and later of another well-known Palestinian writer, Ghassan Kanafani. In the 1960s he started an influential Arabic literary magazine, Aswat, which published the leading avant-garde writers of the time, and in 1967 he put together the first representative volume of short stories from the Arab world. Then he really put Arabic writing on the international literary map with the establishment of the Heinemann Arab Authors series. Since then he has continued to select and translate the best of Arabic fiction, most recently the classic novella by Yahya Hakki, The Lamp of Umm Hashim (AUC Press 2004). He has also translated three books of Islamic Hadith (with Ezzeddin Ibrahim) and other books of Islamic thought, and has written a large number of children's books of Middle Eastern history and folktales.

A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

Author : Henry Schwarz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998334
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Postcolonial Studies written by Henry Schwarz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale

Conscience of the Nation

Author : Richard Jacquemond
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774161018
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Conscience of the Nation written by Richard Jacquemond and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artfully combining social and literary history, this unique study explores the dual loyalties of contemporary Egyptian authors from the 1952 Revolution to the present day. Egypt's writers have long had an elevated idea of their social mission, considering themselves 'the conscience of the nation.' At the same time, modern Egyptian writers work under the liberal conception of the writer borrowed from the European model. As a result, each Egyptian writer treads the tightrope between authority and freedom, social commitment and artistic license, loyalty to the state and to personal expression, in an ongoing quest for an elusive literary ideal. With these fundamentals in mind, Conscience of the Nation examines Egyptian literary production over the past fifty years, surveying works by established writers, as well as those of dozens of other authors who are celebrated in Egypt but whose writings are largely unknown to the foreign reader. Novelists and poets, scriptwriters and playwrights, critics and journalists all have battled with and tried to resolve the tensions inherent in the conflicting forces of self and society.

Randolph Gordon and Other Stories

Author : Ouida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Randolph Gordon and Other Stories written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cairo Today

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Cairo Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Arabic Literature

Author : Paul Starkey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748696539
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Literature written by Paul Starkey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present

List of Novels and Tales in the English Language

Author : Los Angeles Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book List of Novels and Tales in the English Language written by Los Angeles Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Human Needs and Other Stories

Author : G.P. Huffman
Publisher : G
ISBN 13 : 0984575340
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Human Needs and Other Stories written by G.P. Huffman and published by G. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four stories in this collection explore the vagaries of intimate human relationships. The subjects—a freshly retired couple with a no-longer-young daughter whose behavior still vexes them, two stoic men working adjacent farms in the American Midwest, a pair on the cusp of middle age facing a terminal illness, and a man and woman leaving youthful wandering behind for the grim reality of workaday existence—struggle to find meaning and fulfillment in a world governed by measurement and monetization.

Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction

Author : Yasmine Ramadan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474427669
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction written by Yasmine Ramadan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960s Egypt a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape. Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction explores how this literary generation presents a marked shift in the representation of rural, urban and exilic space, reflecting a disappointment with the project of the postcolonial nation-state in Egypt. Combining a sociological approach to literature with detailed close readings, Yasmine Ramadan explores the spatial representations that embodied this shift within the Egyptian literary scene and the disappearance of an idealized nation in the Egyptian novel. This study provides a robust examination of the emergence and establishment of some of the most significant writers in modern Egyptian literature, and their influence across six decades, while also tracing the social, economic, political and aesthetic changes that marked this period in Egypt's contemporary history.