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Gilgamesh

A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

by Sophus Helle ...

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with ... Read more

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A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with
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Sumer and Akkad | Children's Middle Eastern History Books

by Baby Professor ...

The Sumer and Akkad are two of the most ancient civilizations known to men. Reading this resource material will bring you back to Mesopotamia over 7,000 years ago. You will learn how the Sumerians established an advanced writing system, architecture and arts, mathematics and astronomy. You will also read how the Akkadians followed the Sumerians to create the world’s first empire. This book is a ... Read more

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The Sumer and Akkad are two of the most ancient civilizations known to men. Reading this resource material will bring you back to Mesopotamia over 7,000 years ago. You will learn how the Sumerians established an advanced writing system, architecture and arts, mathematics and astronomy. You will also read how the Akkadians followed the Sumerians to create the world’s first empire. This book is a
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The Better Story

Queer Affects from the Middle East

by Dina Georgis ...

Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.Finalist for the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the GLBT categoryWith a focus on aesthetic texts that narrate stories about or from the Middle East, The Better Story offers fresh insights into political conflict. Dina Georgis argues that narrative is an emotional resource for ... Read more

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Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.Finalist for the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the GLBT categoryWith a focus on aesthetic texts that narrate stories about or from the Middle East, The Better Story offers fresh insights into political conflict. Dina Georgis argues that narrative is an emotional resource for
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Melancholy Acts

Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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The Babylonian Empire | Children's Middle Eastern History Books

by Baby Professor ...

The Babylonian Empire was known to be the most powerful state in the ancient world during the 612 BCE. It was a beautiful kingdom with many famous buildings. Because of that, it went down in history as an important culture center. Visit the ancient city of Babylon by using your imagination as you read this book. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

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The Babylonian Empire was known to be the most powerful state in the ancient world during the 612 BCE. It was a beautiful kingdom with many famous buildings. Because of that, it went down in history as an important culture center. Visit the ancient city of Babylon by using your imagination as you read this book. Grab a copy today!
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Moroccan Other-Archives

History and Citizenship after State Violence

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Literary History Of The Arabs

by Reynold A. Nicholson ...

First published in 2004. This is an edited version of ‘A Literary History of the Arabs’, published in 1907 by the author to include more useful information and accuracies and is meant for students of Arabic ... Read more

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First published in 2004. This is an edited version of ‘A Literary History of the Arabs’, published in 1907 by the author to include more useful information and accuracies and is meant for students of Arabic
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On Earth or in Poems

The Many Lives of al-Andalus

by Eric Calderwood ...

Finalist, Sheikh Zayed Book Award“With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”—Hussein Fancy, Yale UniversityHow the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank.During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to ... Read more

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Finalist, Sheikh Zayed Book Award“With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”—Hussein Fancy, Yale UniversityHow the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank.During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to
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The Doctors' Dinner Party

by Ibn Buṭlān ...

Translated by Philip F. Kennedy, Jeremy Farrell ...

Series series Library of Arabic Literature
A witty satire of the medical professionThe Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Buṭlān, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying ... Read more

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A witty satire of the medical professionThe Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Buṭlān, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying
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Emerson's Literary Philosophy

by Reza Hosseini ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book situates Ralph Waldo Emerson in the tradition of philosophy as “spiritual exercise”, arguing that the defining feature of his literary philosophy is the conviction that there is an inherent link between moral persuasion and literary excellence. Hosseini persuasively argues that the Emersonian project can be viewed as an extension of Socrates’ call for a return to the beginning of ... Read more

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This book situates Ralph Waldo Emerson in the tradition of philosophy as “spiritual exercise”, arguing that the defining feature of his literary philosophy is the conviction that there is an inherent link between moral persuasion and literary excellence. Hosseini persuasively argues that the Emersonian project can be viewed as an extension of Socrates’ call for a return to the beginning of
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Contemporary Arab Fiction

Innovation from Rama to Yalu

by Fabio Caiani ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary Arabic fiction, these authors remain largely unknown to non-Arab readers.Fabio Caiani examines the work of the Moroccan Muhammad Barrada; the Egyptian Idwar al-Kharrat; the Lebanese Ilyas Khuri and the Iraqi Fu’ad al-Takarli. Their ... Read more

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This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary Arabic fiction, these authors remain largely unknown to non-Arab readers.Fabio Caiani examines the work of the Moroccan Muhammad Barrada; the Egyptian Idwar al-Kharrat; the Lebanese Ilyas Khuri and the Iraqi Fu’ad al-Takarli. Their
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General Introduction to Persian Literature

History of Persian Literature A, Vol I

Edited by J.T.P. Bruijn ...

Series series History of Persian Literature
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 ... Read more

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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
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On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (Golden Deer Classics)

by Ibn Rushd, Averroës, Averroes ...

In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific reasoning. Apparent conflicts between the teachings of Scripture and philosophy can be reconciled by allegorical ... Read more

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In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific reasoning. Apparent conflicts between the teachings of Scripture and philosophy can be reconciled by allegorical
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Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing

Heuristic Implications of the Recto-Verso Effect

by Pamela A. Pears ...

Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page—or in this case, the cover, (recto) controls what we read on the reverse—in this case, the text itself (verso). Using theories of the paratext, ... Read more

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The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page—or in this case, the cover, (recto) controls what we read on the reverse—in this case, the text itself (verso). Using theories of the paratext,
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أسرار شفرات النص الروائي

روايات جبرا إبراهيم جبرا نموذجًا

by عزة البطران الجارحي ...

أسرار شفرات النص الروائي روايات جبرا إبراهيم جبرا نموذجا عمل نقدي يأخذ القارئ في رحلة استكشافية عميقة داخل أعماق السرد الأدبي العربي. تقدم الكاتبة عزة بطران الجارحي قراءة دقيقة ومبهرة لأعمال جبرا إبراهيم جبرا، أحد أبرز الأسماء في الأدب العربي الحديث. من خلال تحليل شفرات النصوص الروائية، تكشف الكاتبة عن الطبقات الخفية للرمز، التأويل، والمتخيل السردي الذي يشكل العمود الفقري لهذه الأعمال. الكتاب لا ... Read more

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أسرار شفرات النص الروائي روايات جبرا إبراهيم جبرا نموذجا عمل نقدي يأخذ القارئ في رحلة استكشافية عميقة داخل أعماق السرد الأدبي العربي. تقدم الكاتبة عزة بطران الجارحي قراءة دقيقة ومبهرة لأعمال جبرا إبراهيم جبرا، أحد أبرز الأسماء في الأدب العربي الحديث. من خلال تحليل شفرات النصوص الروائية، تكشف الكاتبة عن الطبقات الخفية للرمز، التأويل، والمتخيل السردي الذي يشكل العمود الفقري لهذه الأعمال. الكتاب لا
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مقامات في حضرة المحترم

by سيد الوكيل ...

رحلة تأملية في عالم نجيب محفوظ، تتجاوز القراءة النمطية لتستكشف عمق رؤيته الإنسانية، وتحلل روائعه من زاوية جديدة. كتاب "مقامات في حضرة المحترم" ليس مجرد نقد أدبي، بل هو شهادة محبة على عبقرية أديبٍ شكل تاريخ الأدب العربي الحديث. ... Read more

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رحلة تأملية في عالم نجيب محفوظ، تتجاوز القراءة النمطية لتستكشف عمق رؤيته الإنسانية، وتحلل روائعه من زاوية جديدة. كتاب "مقامات في حضرة المحترم" ليس مجرد نقد أدبي، بل هو شهادة محبة على عبقرية أديبٍ شكل تاريخ الأدب العربي الحديث.
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Mahmoud Darwish

Literature and the Politics of Palestinian Identity

by Muna Abu Eid ...

Series series Written Culture and Identity
Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle. His poems resonate across the entire Arab world and, more than any other single figure perhaps since the death of Yasser Arafat, he represents a unifying figurehead for Palestinian national aspirations. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Darwish in English, Muna Abu Eid examines the poet's intellectual status on ... Read more

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Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle. His poems resonate across the entire Arab world and, more than any other single figure perhaps since the death of Yasser Arafat, he represents a unifying figurehead for Palestinian national aspirations. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Darwish in English, Muna Abu Eid examines the poet's intellectual status on
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The Special Status of Muhammad

Shihab al-Din al-Qastallani’s The Divine Bounties

by Sigalit Chacham ...

Series series Routledge Sufi Series
This book examines the special status of the Prophet Muḥammad, as described by the Cairene Sufi mystic Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qasṭallānī (d. 1517). It examines spiritual, material, and theological aspects of love for the Prophet as expressed in his al-Mawāhib al-laduniyya bil-minaḥ al-muḥammadiyya (“The Divine Bounties [Granted] Through the Gifts of Muḥammad”).Discussing an unknown layer in the ... Read more

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This book examines the special status of the Prophet Muḥammad, as described by the Cairene Sufi mystic Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qasṭallānī (d. 1517). It examines spiritual, material, and theological aspects of love for the Prophet as expressed in his al-Mawāhib al-laduniyya bil-minaḥ al-muḥammadiyya (“The Divine Bounties [Granted] Through the Gifts of Muḥammad”).Discussing an unknown layer in the
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Attraverso il Cinquecento

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Arrested Movement in the Middle East

Mobility and Political Dissent in Arab and Palestinian Culture

by Drew Paul ...

How has cultural production from the Middle East responded to two simultaneous and contradictory trends: growing ease of global mobility brought about by advances in transportation and communication technologies, and increasingly odious restrictions on movement imposed by repressive regimes, civil war, and military occupations in the Arab world?This book draws on conceptions of space, borders, and ... Read more

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How has cultural production from the Middle East responded to two simultaneous and contradictory trends: growing ease of global mobility brought about by advances in transportation and communication technologies, and increasingly odious restrictions on movement imposed by repressive regimes, civil war, and military occupations in the Arab world?This book draws on conceptions of space, borders, and
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نحو النص ولغة القرآن

by د. إبراهيم الدسوقي ...

بين دفتي هذا الكتاب، يسكن سرٌّ قديم يتجدد مع كل تلاوة، لغزٌ يكمن في المسافة غير المرئية بين الكلمة وأختها، وبين الآية وما يتلوها. هل تساءلت يوماً كيف ينسج البيان الإلهي خيوطه ليمسي النصُّ جسداً واحداً نابضاً، لا مجرد جملٍ متراصة؟يأخذنا الدكتور إبراهيم الدسوقي في رحلةٍ معرفية فاتنة، تتجاوز حدود "النحو التقليدي" الذي يحبس نفسه في إعراب المفردات، لينطلق نحو "نحو النص"؛ ذاك الفضاء الرحب الذي تُقرأ فيه ... Read more

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بين دفتي هذا الكتاب، يسكن سرٌّ قديم يتجدد مع كل تلاوة، لغزٌ يكمن في المسافة غير المرئية بين الكلمة وأختها، وبين الآية وما يتلوها. هل تساءلت يوماً كيف ينسج البيان الإلهي خيوطه ليمسي النصُّ جسداً واحداً نابضاً، لا مجرد جملٍ متراصة؟يأخذنا الدكتور إبراهيم الدسوقي في رحلةٍ معرفية فاتنة، تتجاوز حدود "النحو التقليدي" الذي يحبس نفسه في إعراب المفردات، لينطلق نحو "نحو النص"؛ ذاك الفضاء الرحب الذي تُقرأ فيه
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The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture

Ninth-Twelfth Century AD

by N. Hermes ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe. ... Read more

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Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe.
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الجسد في رواية الحرب السورية

by حسّان عبّاس ...

Series series Ifpoche
عرف المشهد الثقافي السوري في سنوات الحرب طفرة إبداعٍ شملت جميع مجالات الإنتاج الفني والأدبي. وقد نالت الرواية نصيبا وافراً من ذاك الإبداع تمثّل في عدد الروايات المنشورة الذي فاق المائة وخمسين رواية بين عامي 2011 و 2018، ثلثها تقريبا جعل من وقائع سنوات الحرب إطاراً له.في هذا الكتاب يتوقف الباحث عند موضوعة الجسد ليدرس حضوره في الأعمال الروائية التي كتبت عن الحرب. فيحدد بدايةً عدداً من الخصائص ... Read more

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عرف المشهد الثقافي السوري في سنوات الحرب طفرة إبداعٍ شملت جميع مجالات الإنتاج الفني والأدبي. وقد نالت الرواية نصيبا وافراً من ذاك الإبداع تمثّل في عدد الروايات المنشورة الذي فاق المائة وخمسين رواية بين عامي 2011 و 2018، ثلثها تقريبا جعل من وقائع سنوات الحرب إطاراً له.في هذا الكتاب يتوقف الباحث عند موضوعة الجسد ليدرس حضوره في الأعمال الروائية التي كتبت عن الحرب. فيحدد بدايةً عدداً من الخصائص
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Hamlet's Arab Journey

Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost

by Margaret Litvin ...

Series series Translation/Transnation
For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively ... Read more

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For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively
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Gilgamesh

Sumer and Akkad | Children's Middle Eastern History Books

The Better Story

Melancholy Acts

The Babylonian Empire | Children's Middle Eastern History Books

Moroccan Other-Archives

Literary History Of The Arabs

On Earth or in Poems

The Doctors' Dinner Party

Emerson's Literary Philosophy

Contemporary Arab Fiction

General Introduction to Persian Literature

On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (Golden Deer Classics)

Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing

أسرار شفرات النص الروائي

مقامات في حضرة المحترم

Mahmoud Darwish

The Special Status of Muhammad

Attraverso il Cinquecento

Arrested Movement in the Middle East

نحو النص ولغة القرآن

The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture

الجسد في رواية الحرب السورية

Hamlet's Arab Journey