Zakariyya Tamir And The Politics Of The Syrian Short Story

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Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story

Author : Alessandro Columbu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755644123
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.

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.

Breaking Knees

Author : Zakaria TAMER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902932453
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Knees written by Zakaria TAMER and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsentimental and brilliantly compressed, these sixty-three stories are the work of a virtuoso.

A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories

Author : Sabry Hafez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories written by Sabry Hafez and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a key study text for students of Arabic language and literature.

Breaking Knees

Author : Zakarīyā Tāmir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902932460
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Knees written by Zakarīyā Tāmir and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Arabic Short Stories

Author : Ronak Husni
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863568866
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Short Stories written by Ronak Husni and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already wellknown in the West, such as Idwar al-Kharrat, Fu'ad al-Takarli and Nobel Prize winner Najib Mahfuz, the collection includes stories by key authors whose fame has hitherto been restricted to the Middle East. This bilingual reader is ideal for students of Arabic as well as lovers of literature who wish to broaden their appreciation of the work of Middle Eastern writers. The collection features stories in the original Arabic, accompanied by an English translation and a brief author biography, as well as a discussion of context and background. Each story is followed by a glossary and discussion of problematic language points. 'Recommended' CHOICE

Breaking Knees

Author : Zakarīyā Tāmir
Publisher : Garnet Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Knees written by Zakarīyā Tāmir and published by Garnet Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with taboo subjects like religion and sexuality and expresses an urgently felt need for change. This book covers the topic of repression: of the individual by the institutions of state and religion and of individuals by each other, particularly women by men.

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.

Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World

Author : Pernilla Myrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838605037
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World written by Pernilla Myrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily written by male authors, the erotic publications from this era often emphasised the sexual needs of women and the importance of female romantic fulfilment. Pernilla Myrne here explores this phenomenon, examining a range of Arabic literature to shed fresh light onto the complexities of female sexuality under the Abbasids and the Buyids. Based on an impressive array of neglected medical, religious-legal, literary and entertainment sources, Myrne elucidates the tension between depictions of women's strong sexual agency and their subordinated social role in various contexts. In the process she uncovers a great diversity of approaches from the 9th to the 11th century, including the sexual handbook the Encyclopedia of Pleasure (Jawami' al-ladhdha), which portrayed the diversity of female desires, asserting the importance of mutual satisfaction through lively poems and stories. This is the first in-depth, comprehensive analysis of female sexuality in the early Islamic world and is essential reading for all scholars of Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature.

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.

Persian Historiography

Author : Charles Melville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736574
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Persian Historiography written by Charles Melville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves. "A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic. In this volume the Editors offer an indispensable overview of Persian literature's long and rich historiography. Highlighting the central themes and ideas which inform historical writing, "Persian Historiography" will be an indispensable source for the historiographical traditions of Iran and the essential guide to the subject.

Tablet and Pen

Author : Reza Aslan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393065855
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tablet and Pen written by Reza Aslan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates the magnificent achievement of 20th-century Middle Eastern literature that has been neglected in the English-speaking world.

Arabic Minimalist Story

Author : Ibrāhīm Ṭāhā
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Minimalist Story written by Ibrāhīm Ṭāhā and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study aims at characterizing the Arabic minimalist story as a new genre of narrative fiction that exploits many austere devices of post-modern strategies to exhibit a variety of socio-political and ideological matters that affect the fundamental needs of the common people in all Arab states. One of the major aims of this study is to expose the reader to the particularity of the Arabic minimalist story on both levels, thematic and aesthetic. On the thematic level, political, national and citizenship questions are at the top of the genre's agenda. Other topics, such as feminism and economic conditions, also attract significant interest among minimalist writers in all Arab countries. However, Arab minimalist writers are mostly preoccupied by national and political issues related to their quest for freedom, free speech, and proper interrelations between common people and rulers. In reading Arabic minimalist fiction, we come to recognize that the political crisis in Arab states has been among the uppermost concerns of Arab minimalist writers for the last three decades. On the aesthetic/poetic level, Arabic minimalist story is mostly applied to identify texts that are pared down to their most essential features and fundamental components. One of the departure points of the minimalist story in modern Arabic fiction is 'blurring transparency', which challenges the reader and his ability to go beyond the surface, namely to cross the verbal text to unseen texts. Since the minimalist story goes immediately to the point of the text, implicitly or explicitly, it generates a deep sense of powerful product. This is apparently the very reason why the minimalist story is particularly apt for devices that forcefully move the reader, such as satire, sarcasm, the absurd, irony, the grotesque, caricature, paradox, and the like. Unlike long genres of narrative fiction, which narrate a piece of reality or history, the minimalist story touches directly the core of the experience that the writer wishes to portray. Unlike long narrative genres, of well-explained events and detailed descriptions, the unique powerful effect of the minimalist story stems from its concentrated, focal and sudden presentation. Fighting and resistance are well suited to the minimalist story, which does not scatter the reader's attention to side issues. The immediacy and shortness of minimalist fiction are apparently the very features needed to reach the extreme of challenge and resistance.

Sour Grapes

Author : Zakaria Tamer
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655843
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Sour Grapes written by Zakaria Tamer and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Tamer captures their everyday lives, weaving the attendant cruelties and ironies of living under an oppressive regime with the residents’ irreverence and small acts of defiance. Inspired by the heroines of Arab mythology, the women of al-Qaweyq navigate the patriarchal community with brash confidence and dark humor while the younger generation of children inherit a bitter cynicism from their fathers. Evoking under-ripened and immature fruit, the collection’s title serves as a bittersweet metaphor for a world that possesses the seeds of change but is unprepared for the harvest. Considered a master of the short story, Zakaria Tamer is one of the Arab world’s most prominent and widely read writers. Columbu and Capallera’s fluid translation gives English readers access to Tamer’s original and provocative voice.

English Poetry and Modern Arabic Verse

Author : Ghareeb Iskander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755607260
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book English Poetry and Modern Arabic Verse written by Ghareeb Iskander and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations of a number of major modern poems in the English language, in particular T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. With case studies dedicated to the Arab translators who were themselves modernist poets, including Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Saadi Yusuf, the author brings a reading of the translations as literary works in their own right. Revealing why the Arab modernists were drawn to these poems through situational context, Ghareeb Iskander shows that the influence exerted by the English originals stems from the creative manner in which the Arab poet-translators converted them into their own language.

Muslim Rebels

Author : Jeffrey T. Kenney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198030185
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Rebels written by Jeffrey T. Kenney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith has ensured their place in both critical and religious accounts of early Islamic history. Based on the image of sect fostered by the Islamic tradition, the name Kharijite defines a Muslim as an overly-pious zealot whose ideas and actions lie beyond the pale of normative Islam. After a brief look at Kharijite origins and the traditional image of these early rebels, this book focuses on references to the Kharijites in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1990s. Jeffrey T. Kenney shows how the traditional image of the Kharijites was reawakened to address the problem of radical Islamist opposition movements. The Kharijites came to play a central role in the rhetoric of both religious authorities, whose official role it is to interpret Islam for the masses, and the secular state, which cynically turns to Islamic ideas and symbols to defend its legitimacy. Even those Islamists who defend militant tactics, and who are themselves tainted by the Kharijite label, become participants in the discourse surrounding Kharijism. Although all Egyptians agree that modern Kharijites represent a dangerous threat to society, serious debates have arisen about the underlying social, political and economic problems that lead Muslims down this destructive path. Kenney examines these debates and what they reveal about Egyptian attitudes toward Islamist violence and its impact on their nation. Long before 9/11, Egyptians have been dealing with the problem of Islamist violence, frequently evoking the Kharijites. This book represents an important contribution to Islamic studies and Middle East studies, adding to our understanding of how the Islamic past shapes the present discourse surrounding Islamist violence in one Muslim society.

The Monotonous Chaos of Existence

Author : Hisham Bustani
Publisher : Mason Jar Press
ISBN 13 : 9781951853082
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Monotonous Chaos of Existence written by Hisham Bustani and published by Mason Jar Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories within Hisham Bustani's The Monotonous Chaos of Existence explore the turbulent transformation in contemporary Arab societies. With a deft and poetic touch, Bustani examines the interpersonal with a global lens, connects the seemingly contradictory, and delves into the ways that international conflict can tear open the individuals that populate his world-all while pushing the narrative form into new and unexpected terrain.