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  • Attraverso il Cinquecento

    von Arturo Graf …
    Scopri un viaggio affascinante nel cuore del Rinascimento con "Attraverso il Cinquecento" di Arturo Graf!Immergiti in un'epoca di straordinaria trasformazione culturale e artistica, dove ogni pagina ti trasporta in un mondo di intrighi, scoperte e rivoluzioni intellettuali.Con una narrazione avvincente e dettagliata, Graf esplora i temi unici del Rinascimento, dall'arte alla filosofia, dalla … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,99

  • The Rise of the Arabic Book

    von Beatrice Gruendler …
    The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 35,19

  • From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

    Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period

    von Jacob Klein, Yitschak Sefati …
    This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian scribal education. The first is what the authors argue is the most complete copy of the first fifty lines of the standard version of the Sumerian … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 85,57

  • Religion et violence dans l’œuvre de Yusuf Zaydan

    von Marcella Rubino …
    Serien series Sciences humaines et sociales
    Auteur égyptien controversé tant pour son œuvre que pour sa personnalité, Yusuf Zaydan est ce qu’on appelle un phénomène littéraire. Si sa posture d’écrivain s’inscrit bien dans la tradition de l’intellectuel éveilleur des consciences hérité de la renaissance arabe, sa trajectoire de romancier n’en demeure pas moins emblématique de l’éclatement récent du champ littéraire égyptien. Ce livre explore … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,99

  • Writing Queer Identities in Morocco

    Abdellah Taïa and Moroccan Committed Literature

    von Tina Dransfeldt Christensen …
    Serien series Written Culture and Identity
    This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen examines Taïa's art and activism in the context of the wider debates around sexuality in Morocco.Placing key novels such as Salvation … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 32,88

  • Committed to Disillusion

    Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s

    von David DiMeo …
    Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment, producing agonized works that challenged the key assumptions of socially engaged writing. Rather … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 33,32

  • Born Translated

    The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature

    von Rebecca Walkowitz …
    Serien series Literature Now
    As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques that treat translation as a medium rather than as an afterthought. These strategies challenge the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 25,51

  • Alexandrian Sphinx

    The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

    von Gregory Jusdanis, Peter Jeffreys …
    A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry.Winner of the International Hellenic PrizeShortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award'A deeply researched and engaging biography… … Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor € 21,22 Jetzt € 13,26

  • Russian-Arab Worlds

    A Documentary History

    Bearbeitet von Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, Margaret Litvin …
    The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer's diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 88,43

  • Hebrew Orientalism

    Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine

    von Mostafa Hussein …
    How Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of ZionismIn the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures while navigating their evolving identities as settler colonists. Hebrew Orientalism challenges the conventional view that Hebrew … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 27,71

  • Literary Translation in Practice

    Arabic into English

    Bearbeitet von Azeez Jasim Mohammed …
    Serien series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces the theory and practice of literary translation through the lens of original short stories translated from Arabic into English. Readers are provided with both the source text and the target language translation, alongside critical commentaries and discussion of related key concepts and issues, to allow them to see the mechanics of decision-making in this type of specialised … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 69,29

  • The Politics of Melodrama

    The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser

    von Jonathan Smolin …
    Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919–1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position in Egyptian politics. Jonathan Smolin frames the work of Abdel Kouddous not only as romantic melodrama, but as an entirely … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 29,80

  • Ancient Persia in Western History

    Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire

    von Sasan Samiei …
    Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 31,45

  • Arabian Nights

    A Selection

    von Richard Burton …
    Probably one of the original 'story within a story' books, Arabian nights is a selection of stories told by a young girl on her wedding night to a prince who has sworn to kill any girl who marries him. Her clever stories serve as 'cliff-hangers' and keep him from murdering her night after night. This collection is where classic fairy tales such as Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Theives come … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 2,99

  • Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia

    Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by al-Isfahani

    von Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, George Dimitri Sawa …
    The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897-971) is the most extensive collection of anecdotes from pre-Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad to the beginning of the tenth century. Entertaining and informative, these gems have remained largely inaccessible to Western readers. This translation presents a collection of love stories and poems, biting satires, daring erotic encounters, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,32

  • The Sword of Ambition

    Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

    von ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī, Luke Yarbrough …
    Serien Buch 38 - Library of Arabic Literature
    The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned, the book’s author, an unemployed Egyptian scholar and former bureaucrat named 'Uthman ibn … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 26,39

  • Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society

    von Yasmine Motawy …
    A social and political history of two decades of Egyptian neoliberalism through children’s picture books published in Egypt in the post-2000 eraChildren’s picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators, and as cultural objects they are an expression of the zeitgeist of a particular era. They reveal much about the hopes, values, and … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 47,62

  • Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature

    von Gloria Fisk …
    Serien series Literature Now
    When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored as a builder of bridges across a dangerous chasm. By rendering his Turkish characters and settings familiar where they would otherwise seem troublingly foreign, and by speaking freely against his authoritarian state, he demonstrated a variety of literary greatness that testified also to the good literature can do in the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 55,32

  • Melancholy Acts

    Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World

    von Nouri Gana …
    CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEHow do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 33,65

  • Edward Said's Concept of Exile

    Identity and Cultural Migration in the Middle East

    von Rehnuma Sazzad …
    Serien series Written Culture and Identity
    Edward Said was an exiled individual – the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents' experiences and through the collective statelessness imposed on the Palestinians. His own personal experience of exile intensified when he moved to the USA. Yet despite the significance of exile to Said's … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 133,53

  • Al Jazeera in the Gulf and in the World

    Is It Redefining Global Communication Ethics?

    Bearbeitet von Haydar Badawi Sadig …
    Serien series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the deeper meaning of the advent of the Al Jazeera Media Network with regard to ongoing debates on global communication ethics, not only in the global public sphere but also in terms of its influence on new non-Western approaches to media ethics. Rather than simply calling for international perspectives on media ethic is a unique and significant addition to the literature on the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 128,69

  • Gender, Sex, and the City

    Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

    von R. Vanita …
    Serien series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 49,49

  • The Shahnameh

    The Persian Epic as World Literature

    von Hamid Dabashi …
    The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. For a millennium, Iranian and … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 31,45

  • Un Proche-Orient sans romantisme

    Journal de voyage

    von Leopold Weiss …
    Serien series Cahiers du Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem
    En 1923, un jeune autrichien, Leopold Weiss, sillonne le Moyen-Orient et rédige des carnets pour la Frankfurter Zeitung. De Jérusalem à Malte, en passant par Le Caire et Damas, en train, en voiture, à pied, il parcourt sept mois durant la Palestine alors sous mandat britannique. Son récit tient à la fois du journal de voyage classique (lieux visités, portraits de personnages rencontrés) et de … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,99