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Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers

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Author : Bahaa Abdelmeguid
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617970611
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers written by Bahaa Abdelmeguid and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two short novels, Bahaa Abdel Meguid displays the impressive range of his narrative imagination. Set in the lower-class Cairo district of Shubra, Saint Theresa tells the story of two young women, Budour and Sawsan, childhood friend who come of age following the 1967 war. Budour marries a humble tailor named Girgis, but begins an extended affair with his Jewish employer, Luka. Her friend Sawsan goes off to the university, only to fall in love with a dangerous young Marxist named Salim. From the ghost of a mad grandmother to student protests following Egypt's peace treaty with Israel, Saint Theresa presents a sweeping portrait of Egyptian society through the lives, loves, and jealousies of Sawsan, Budour, Girgis, and Luka. In Sleeping with Strangers, Abdel Meguid turns his lens on the United States - following an Egyptian, Basim, who is drawn to the 'land of opportunity,' only to end up in an American prison. His encounter with a fellow prisoner who preaches of the 'black Messiah,' and his affair with a Russian woman become entangled with Basim's family history of Egyptian official secrets and a pile of stolen documents. Masterfully told, Sleeping with Strangers evokes the conflicting pull of east and west, as Basim is torn between Cairo and Boston, alternately drawn to and repelled by his vision of America.

The Palm House

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Author : Ṭāriq Ṭayyib
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774164822
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Palm House written by Ṭāriq Ṭayyib and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After coming to Vienna from Sudan to win a better life for himself, Hamza struggles to escape from the margins of society and the stigma of the immigrant. Following several years of hardship, his fortunes begin to change when he meets Sandra, a young Austrian woman, who shows him the Palm House. In this famous Viennese greenhouse, the frost of Hamza's heart begins to thaw, and he slowly opens himself to Sandra, revealing his bitter yet beautiful past in Sudan and beyond. This masterful novel draws on the 1001 Nights as well as Sudanese folk traditions, and demonstrates the remarkable power of storytelling to overcome even the most dire circumstances. Critically acclaimed across the Arab world, this novel can be read on its own, or as a sequel to Eltayeb's first novel, Cities without Palms (AUC Press, 2009).

The Scents of Marie-Claire

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Author : Habib Selmi
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617970638
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Scents of Marie-Claire written by Habib Selmi and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tunisian novel shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the ‘Arabic Booker’) This novel from one of Tunisia’s leading writers, the first of his works to be translated into English, narrates a love story in all its stages, in all its glorious and inglorious details. Moment by moment we become acquainted with the morning rituals, the desires of the flesh, the turbulence of the spirit, and even a few unattractive personal habits. It is a journey that takes us inside the nuances of what passes between two lovers, from the first glances of attraction to the final words of anger. It is a journey filled with all the hallmarks of the complex relationship between one man and one woman--the mystery and the ambiguity, the intricacy and the confusio--which, in the end, serve to expose its fragility. This is an intimate tale that manages to tell not only the story of two individuals, but also that of the collision of two cultures.

Homecoming

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Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972061
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Homecoming written by and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Johnson-Davies, a distinguished translator from Arabic, has produced a collection of nearly 60 Egyptian short stories that usefully adds to the growing corpus of Arab literature available in English."—Choice Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as “the leading Arabic–English translator of our time,” arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time. He continued to translate over the decades, and sixty years later he brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt’s leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum of styles, and includes works by Teymour, Hakki, Gohar, and Mahfouz and later writers such as Mohamed El-Bisatie, Said el-Kafrawi, Bahaa Taher, and Radwa Ashour, as well as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar, Mansoura Ez Eldin, and Youssef Rakha.

Animals in Our Days

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Author : Mohamed Makhzangi
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655622
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Animals in Our Days written by Mohamed Makhzangi and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi’s unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans—water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights, brass grasshoppers purchased in a crowded Bangkok market, or ghostly rabbits that haunt the site of a long-ago brutal military crackdown. Other stories tell of bear-trainers in India and of the American invasion of Iraq as experienced by a foal, deer, and puppies. Originally published in 2006, Makhzangi’s stories are part of a long tradition of writings on animals in Arabic literature. In this collection, animals offer a mute testament to the brutality and callousness of humanity, particularly when modernity sunders humans from the natural environment. Makhzangi is one of Egypt’s most perceptive and nuanced authors, merging a writer’s empathy with a scientist’s curiosity about the world. Like Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior, Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes, or J. M. Coetzee’s Lives of Animals, Makhzangi’s stories trace the numinous, almost supernatural, connections between our species and others. In these resonant, haunting tales, Animals in Our Days foregrounds our urgent need to reacquire the sense of awe, humility, and respect that once characterized our relationship with animals.

The Literary Life of Cairo

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Author : Samia Mehrez
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617971707
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Life of Cairo written by Samia Mehrez and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings from literary works that re-construct a century of Cairo's changing social life. Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city. The seven chapters first introduce the reader to representations of some of Cairo's prominent profiles, both political and cultural, and their impact on the city's literary geography, before presenting a spectrum of readings of the city by its multiethnic, multinational, and multilingual writers across class, gender, and generation. Daunting images of colonial school experiences and startling contrasts of postcolonial educational realities are revealed, while Cairo's moments of political participation and oppression are illustrated, as well as the space accorded to women within the city across history and class. The city's marginals are placed on its literary map, alongside representations of the relationship between writing and drugs, and the places, paraphernalia, and products of the drug world across class and time. Together, The Literary Atlas of Cairo and The Literary Life of Cairo produce a literary geography of Cairo that goes beyond the representation of space in literature to reconstruct the complex network of human relationships in that space.

Utopia

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Author : Ahmed Khaled Towfik
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9992194308
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Utopia written by Ahmed Khaled Towfik and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grim futuristic account of Egyptian society in the year 2023, Utopia takes readers on a chilling journey beyond the gated communities of the North Coast where the wealthy are insulated from the bleakness of life outside the walls. When a young man and a girl break out from this bubble of affluence in order to see for themselves the lives of their impoverished fellow Egyptians they are confronted by a world that they had not imagined possible. Breathtaking and suspenseful, Utopia's twists and turns will keep readers guessing until the very last page, and may leave some wondering whether this is a vision of the future that is not too far away.

The Slave Across the Street

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Author : Theresa L. Flores
Publisher : Ampelon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0982328680
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Slave Across the Street written by Theresa L. Flores and published by Ampelon Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While more and more people each day become aware of the dangerous world of human trafficking, many people in the U.S. believe this is something that happens to foreign women men and children not something that happens to their own children and neighbors. They couldn't be more wrong. In this powerful true story. Theresa Flores shares how her life as an All American, 15-years-old teenager was enslaved into the dangerous world of sex trafficking-all while living at home with unsuspecting parents in an upper-middle class suburb of Detroit. Her story peels the cover off of this horrific criminal activity and gives dedicated activists as well as casual bystanders a glimpse into the underbelly of human trafficking Even more importantly, Theres's story and expertise as a counselor and licensed social worker help identify red flags that could prevent her plight from becoming the fate of an unsuspecting teenager. She discusses how she healed the wounds of sexual servitude and offers advice to parents and professionals through prevention tips, education and significant information on human trafficking in modern day America. With insights and perspectives from a doctor, a friend and her own brother, Theres's memoir provides a well-rounded portrait of the dark world of human trafficking and serves as a reminder of the most important clement to overcoming slavery: hope. Book jacket.

The Letters of Saint Teresa

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Author : Saint Teresa (of Avila)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Saint Teresa written by Saint Teresa (of Avila) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saint Teresa

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Author : Henry Sydnor Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Saint Teresa written by Henry Sydnor Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Struggle between a woman industrialist, a pacifist, and her male manager who wishes to convert her factory to arms production." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation.

The Traveler and the Innkeeper

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Author : Fadhil al-Azzawi
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617970581
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Traveler and the Innkeeper written by Fadhil al-Azzawi and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Iraqi author of Cell Block Five. This timely, elegant novel's hero is an Iraqi secret police inspector who routinely uses enhanced interrogation techniques, which even he considers torture. Convinced that he is protecting society from anarchy, he is at peace with the world until ordered to interrogate a childhood friend, a journalist with possible links to violent subversives. Then he falls in love with his friend's wife. The plot of this novel, which was written in Iraq in 1976 and published in Arabic in Germany in 1989, is further complicated by street protests in Baghdad following the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War of June 1967. Despite the grim subject matter of this novel, it is at heart a love story, lyrically narrated.

Mornings with Saint Therese

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Author : Patricia Treece
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 162282248X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Mornings with Saint Therese written by Patricia Treece and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mornings with Saint Therese is a compilation of short excerpts (no more than 1-3 pages) taken from the Little Flower’s writings and also from those of her close family members and friends. This hardcover book is beautifully designed inside and out, making it a perfect gift for those you love, or as a daily tool for deepening your own spiritual life — all for just $12.95! The following passages have been carefully selected as examples of the countless pearls of wisdom to be found in this special book. On Mortification "I resolved to lead a life of greater devoutness and mortification than ever before. When I speak of mortification, I don’t mean the kind of penance practiced by the saints. There are great souls who practice every sort of mortification from childhood, but I am not like them." "All I did was to break my self-will, check a hasty reply, and do little kindnesses without making a fuss about them — and lots of similar things. So, I prepared myself to become a bride of Jesus." Give, with No Thought of Results! On working with the Carmelite novices: "I throw to the right and the left to my little birds the good seed that the good God puts in my little hand. And then, the seed does what it will!" "I don’t concern myself about it. Sometimes the results are as if I had thrown nothing; other times, something good results. But the good God says to me, 'Give, give always without concerning yourself with results.'" Keeping the Fire of Love Burning "When I am feeling nothing, when I am incapable of praying, of practicing virtue, then is the moment for seeking opportunities, ‘nothings’ which please Jesus more than mastery of the world when suffered with generosity." "For example, a smile, a friendly word, when I would want to say nothing, or put on a look of annoyance, etc." Infinite Love "Oh! How beautiful is our religion; instead of contracting hearts (as the world believes), it raises them up and renders them capable of loving, or loving with a love almost infinite, since this love must continue after this mortal life which is given to us only for meriting the homeland of heaven, where we shall find again the dear ones whom we have loved on earth! Wanting Only to Die of Love "How gentle and merciful God is…I no longer want anything except to love until I die of love. I am free and fear nothing. I am not even afraid — and it used to be my greatest fear — that my illness will drag out and make me a burden to the community." "I do not refuse the struggle: 'The Lord is a rock upon which I stand; He teaches my hands to fight and my fingers to war. He is my protector and I have hoped in Him.'"

Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures

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Author : Carlo Testa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313010900
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures written by Carlo Testa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of cinema, and notably that of post-war Italian cinema, can only be understood adequately in the context of other contiguous cultural disciplines. World literature, including that of France, Germany, and Russia, played a key role in the development of post-war Italian film and the cinematic technique it has come to embody. Moving away from the usual modes of defining this period—a trajectory that begins with neorealism and ends with Bertolucci—author Carlo Testa offers proof that coming to terms with literary texts is an essential step toward understanding the motion pictures they influenced. The means of recreating literature for the screen has changed drastically over the last half-century, as has the impact of different national traditions on Italian cinema. Testa's work is the first to explicitly and deliberately link postwar Italian cinema to general intellectual concerns such as the relationship between literary authors and cinematic auteurs. Moreover, his analysis of the impact of French, German, and Russian cultures on Italy brings forth a new reading of Italian cinema, a new paradigm for exploring complex issues of authorship, culture, and art.

American Illustrated Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sins of the Father

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Author : Valerie Allen
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595442609
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Sins of the Father written by Valerie Allen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arrested for shoplifting, a woman with amnesia fears both her past and her future, and claims no knowledge of the mysterious young girl found with her. Sins of the Father focuses on the efforts of Dr. Allyson Freemont, to bring Feona Parker face to face with a horrifying reality, yet protect her from a complete emotional breakdown. Following on the footsteps of her first novel, Suffer the Little Children, this is another fascinating book by Valerie Allen. Sins of the Father takes the reader into the abyss of mental illness. This story travels through the fragile mind of an emotionally overwhelmed woman and her tortuous journey to wellness. "A moving and insightful story. The destruction of a woman's hopes and dreams, keeps you turning the pages searching for her moment of emotional triumph."-Lee Boyland, author of Rings of Allah and Last Days of Islam "My privilege to read this interesting and unusual story. Brings one face to face with the contributing factors leading into the dark world of mental illness. Causes one to pause and consider with empathy and understanding the emotional state of those around us."-Madeliene Ehrhardt

Drumbeat

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Author : Muḥammad Bisāṭī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774163395
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Drumbeat written by Muḥammad Bisāṭī and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France to support the team, leaving the country to the care of its imported labor. How do they handle such newly found freedom? As though steered by a perverse blend between Dante and Scheherazade, we descend layer by layer beneath the façade of modernity: from the colorful multilingual throngs rejoicing for the Emirati team to the hierarchies that underpin them, from the luxurious gardens and swimming pools into the darker secrets of the bedroom, from the rigid and inhibiting strictures of the present to a remote age of innocence. Three narratives interweave to form a tight and thought-provoking examination of the psychology of control. Drumbeat received the Sawiris Foundation Award for Egyptian Literature.

St. Teresa of Jesus of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel

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Author : Saint Teresa (of Avila)
Publisher : New York : Columbus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Teresa of Jesus of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel written by Saint Teresa (of Avila) and published by New York : Columbus Press. This book was released on 1911 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: