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  • The Homoerotics of Orientalism

    par Joseph Boone ...
    One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and ... En savoir plus

    CHF 32.72

  • Moroccan Other-Archives

    History and Citizenship after State Violence

    par Brahim El Guabli ...
    Winner, 2024 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African StudiesHonorable Mention, 2024 MELA Book AwardsFinalist, 2024 ASA Best Book PrizeMoroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 28.31

  • Missing Soluch

    A Novel

    par Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ...
    Traduit par Kamran Rastegar ...
    Perhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political corruption, authoritarianism, and poverty of the village. It ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.56

  • Rediscovering the Islamic Classics

    How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition

    par Ahmed El Shamsy ...
    The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in ... En savoir plus

    CHF 32.00

  • The Dune's Twisted Edge

    Journeys in the Levant

    par Gabriel Levin ...
    “How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures . . . trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once known with mingled affection and wariness as Levantine?” So begins poet Gabriel Levin in his journeys in the Levant, the exotic land that stands at ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.94

  • Memed le Mince de Yachar Kemal

    Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

    par Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisNé en 1922, au moment où la Turquie est sur le point d’achever sa guerre d’indépendance, Yachar Kemal a vécu de près, dans la région des monts Taurus, au sud-est du pays, les situations qu’il décrit.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Memed le Mince de Yachar KemalChaque fiche de lecture ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.50 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Albert Camus the Algerian

    Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice

    par David Carroll ...
    In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface in ... En savoir plus

    CHF 24.72

  • Attraverso il Cinquecento

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.00

  • The Rise of the Arabic Book

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 27.79

  • From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

    Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 73.04

  • Writing Queer Identities in Morocco

    Abdellah Taïa and Moroccan Committed Literature

    par Tina Dransfeldt Christensen ...
    Collection 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 28.10

  • Committed to Disillusion

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 28.51 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Born Translated

    The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature

    par Rebecca Walkowitz ...
    Collection 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 21.84

  • Alexandrian Sphinx

    The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

    par 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… ... En savoir plus

    Avant CHF 20.20 Après CHF 12.65

  • Russian-Arab Worlds

    A Documentary History

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 75.50

  • Hebrew Orientalism

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 20.30

  • Literary Translation in Practice

    Arabic into English

    Modifié par Azeez Jasim Mohammed ...
    Collection 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 74.79

  • The Politics of Melodrama

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 25.43

  • Ancient Persia in Western History

    Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 29.33

  • Arabian Nights

    A Selection

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 3.50

  • Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia

    Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by al-Isfahani

    par 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, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 9.63

  • The Sword of Ambition

    Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

    par ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī, Luke Yarbrough ...
    Collection Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 22.56

  • Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 40.62 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature

    par Gloria Fisk ...
    Collection 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 ... En savoir plus

    CHF 47.19