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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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The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

by Sarah R. bin Tyeer ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of the Qur’an, this methodology opens up new horizons for reading adab by reading the tradition from within ... Read more

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This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of the Qur’an, this methodology opens up new horizons for reading adab by reading the tradition from within
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Wedded to the Land?

Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis

by Mary N. Layoun, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...

Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study: Greek refugees’ displacement from Asia Minor into Greece in 1922, the 1974 right-wing Cypriot coup ... Read more

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In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study: Greek refugees’ displacement from Asia Minor into Greece in 1922, the 1974 right-wing Cypriot coup
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New Body Politics

Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States

by Therí A. Pickens ...

Series series Routledge Series on Identity Politics
In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to having social and political significance? What can the experience of corporeality offer social and ... Read more

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In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to having social and political significance? What can the experience of corporeality offer social and
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Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights

Edited by Paulo Lemos Horta ...

Series series Approaches to Teaching World Literature
The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are the numerous ... Read more

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The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are the numerous
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The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800–1989)

Reading Ibn ʿArabī’s Theory of Wilāya in the Shīʿa World

by Leila Chamankhah ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among Shīʿī scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilāya through the examination and interpretation of key texts. She focuses on the influence of ibn ʿArabī’s mysticism, with regard to the conception of wilāya, on his Shīʿa ... Read more

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This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among Shīʿī scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilāya through the examination and interpretation of key texts. She focuses on the influence of ibn ʿArabī’s mysticism, with regard to the conception of wilāya, on his Shīʿa
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Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

Shahrazad Tells Her Story

by Nawar Al-Hassan Golley ...

Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various ... Read more

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Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various
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Negotiating the Modern

Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

by Amit Ray ...

Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the 'West.' Beginning in the early 1800s, South Asians actively seek ... Read more

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This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the 'West.' Beginning in the early 1800s, South Asians actively seek
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Le personnage arabe palestinien dans la littérature hébraïque du XXe siècle

by Françoise Saquer-Sabin ...

Series series Hors collection
De Moshé Smilanski à Amos Oz ou David Grossman de la diaspora aux années 1980, comment les écrivains israéliens ont-ils perçu l’Arabe palestinien, entre personnage réel et personnage de fiction ? Comment est-il décrit ou désigné ? De quelle manière s’exprime-t-il ? Comment s’insère-t-il dans la narration ? Certaines scènes, telle la rencontre, paraissent typiques de ce voisinage à la fois familier ... Read more

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De Moshé Smilanski à Amos Oz ou David Grossman de la diaspora aux années 1980, comment les écrivains israéliens ont-ils perçu l’Arabe palestinien, entre personnage réel et personnage de fiction ? Comment est-il décrit ou désigné ? De quelle manière s’exprime-t-il ? Comment s’insère-t-il dans la narration ? Certaines scènes, telle la rencontre, paraissent typiques de ce voisinage à la fois familier
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Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime

by Dana M. Olwan ...

In Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime, Dana M. Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts—looking specifically at a particular form of gender-based violence known as the “honor crime” and tracing how a range of legal, political, and literary texts inform normative and critical ... Read more

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In Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime, Dana M. Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts—looking specifically at a particular form of gender-based violence known as the “honor crime” and tracing how a range of legal, political, and literary texts inform normative and critical
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Since 1948

Israeli Literature in the Making

Edited by Nancy E. Berg, Naomi B. Sokoloff ...

Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleToward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status-such as the ... Read more

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A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleToward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status-such as the
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The Worlding of Arabic Literature

Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability

by Anna Ziajka Stanton ...

Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater ... Read more

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Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater
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The Dune's Twisted Edge

Journeys in the Levant

by 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 ... Read more

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“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
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Reforming Modernity

Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha

by Wael Hallaq ...

Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most significant philosophers in the Islamic world since the colonial era. Wael B. Hallaq contends that Taha is at the forefront of forging a new, non-Western-centric philosophical tradition. He explores how Taha’s philosophical ... Read more

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Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most significant philosophers in the Islamic world since the colonial era. Wael B. Hallaq contends that Taha is at the forefront of forging a new, non-Western-centric philosophical tradition. He explores how Taha’s philosophical
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Writing Cyprus

Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space

by Bahriye Kemal ...

Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkophone writings from the 1920s to the present.Drawing on Yi-Fu Tuan’s humanistic geography and Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist philosophy, Kemal proposes a new interdisciplinary spatial model, at once theoretical ... Read more

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Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkophone writings from the 1920s to the present.Drawing on Yi-Fu Tuan’s humanistic geography and Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist philosophy, Kemal proposes a new interdisciplinary spatial model, at once theoretical
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Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

Essays by Hamid Dabashi

Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan ...

"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching ... Read more

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"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching
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بيوغرافيا اللَّيل

مُقارباتٌ في مناماتٍ إبداعيّة

by محمود هدايت ...

ثمّة كتابة نهاريّة قدرها الصباحات البائسة والنفوس شبه الطبيعيّة؛ كتابة هادئة، ومطمئنة، وسطحيّة الطروس، وناعمة الملامس، وذلك في مقابل كتابة نوكتيرونيّة تصنعها النفوس الاستثنائيّة داخل ورشة الدياميس المرعبة. كتابة صاخبة وقلقة وعميقة الأغوار، وناتئة المدارك. لنقل، على سبيل الاستعارة، إنّها محبرة شديدة السواد، نازفة من الروح اللاّمتآلفة مع أنظمة العالم المتكلّس، يستعين بها نبّاش لحود في مقابر الأبديّة ... Read more

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ثمّة كتابة نهاريّة قدرها الصباحات البائسة والنفوس شبه الطبيعيّة؛ كتابة هادئة، ومطمئنة، وسطحيّة الطروس، وناعمة الملامس، وذلك في مقابل كتابة نوكتيرونيّة تصنعها النفوس الاستثنائيّة داخل ورشة الدياميس المرعبة. كتابة صاخبة وقلقة وعميقة الأغوار، وناتئة المدارك. لنقل، على سبيل الاستعارة، إنّها محبرة شديدة السواد، نازفة من الروح اللاّمتآلفة مع أنظمة العالم المتكلّس، يستعين بها نبّاش لحود في مقابر الأبديّة
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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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Die dreizehn Bücher der deutschen Seele

by Wilhelm Schafer ...

Entdecken Sie die verborgenen Facetten der deutschen Seele in einem literarischen Meisterwerk!„Die dreizehn Bücher der deutschen Seele“ von Wilhelm Schafer ist eine faszinierende Reise durch die kulturellen und emotionalen Tiefen Deutschlands. Dieses Werk entfaltet sich wie ein Mosaik, das die Essenz der deutschen Identität in all ihren Facetten beleuchtet, ohne dabei zu viel zu verraten ... Read more

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Entdecken Sie die verborgenen Facetten der deutschen Seele in einem literarischen Meisterwerk!„Die dreizehn Bücher der deutschen Seele“ von Wilhelm Schafer ist eine faszinierende Reise durch die kulturellen und emotionalen Tiefen Deutschlands. Dieses Werk entfaltet sich wie ein Mosaik, das die Essenz der deutschen Identität in all ihren Facetten beleuchtet, ohne dabei zu viel zu verraten
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Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo V

by Schack ...

Descubre el fascinante universo de la literatura y el arte dramático español como nunca antes lo habías imaginado.Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo V de Schack te invita a un viaje a través del tiempo, explorando las raíces y la evolución de la creatividad hispánica. Este volumen es una joya que desvela los secretos mejor guardados de la escena literaria y teatral de ... Read more

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Descubre el fascinante universo de la literatura y el arte dramático español como nunca antes lo habías imaginado.Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo V de Schack te invita a un viaje a través del tiempo, explorando las raíces y la evolución de la creatividad hispánica. Este volumen es una joya que desvela los secretos mejor guardados de la escena literaria y teatral de
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Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas

by Anonymous ...

Ontdek de verborgen geheimen van de literaire wereld!Duik in de fascinerende wereld van 'Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas', een meesterwerk dat de grenzen van de verbeelding tart. Dit anonieme werk neemt je mee op een reis door de tijd, waar de lijnen tussen fictie en werkelijkheid vervagen.Unieke thema’s zoals de zoektocht naar waarheid en de kracht van woorden worden op een ongeëvenaarde ... Read more

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Ontdek de verborgen geheimen van de literaire wereld!Duik in de fascinerende wereld van 'Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas', een meesterwerk dat de grenzen van de verbeelding tart. Dit anonieme werk neemt je mee op een reis door de tijd, waar de lijnen tussen fictie en werkelijkheid vervagen.Unieke thema’s zoals de zoektocht naar waarheid en de kracht van woorden worden op een ongeëvenaarde
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Arabistik

Eine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung

by Yvonne Albers, Ines Braune, Christian Junge, Felix Lang, Friederike Pannewick ...

Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
Die Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt seit Beginn des Arabischen Frühlings verlangen Veränderungen in der arabistischen Forschung und Lehre. Diese Einführung plädiert für eine Öffnung des Faches für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen und konzentriert sich auf Moderne und Gegenwart (19.–21. Jh.). Der Band stellt die wichtigsten künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen vor: Literatur, Theater, ... Read more

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Die Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt seit Beginn des Arabischen Frühlings verlangen Veränderungen in der arabistischen Forschung und Lehre. Diese Einführung plädiert für eine Öffnung des Faches für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen und konzentriert sich auf Moderne und Gegenwart (19.–21. Jh.). Der Band stellt die wichtigsten künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen vor: Literatur, Theater,
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Masculinity and Syrian Fiction

Gender, Society and the Female Gaze

by Lovisa Berg ...

What can novels tell us about masculinity in Syria? In this book, Lovisa Berg explores over 20 Syrian novels covering the last 50 years of the 20th century. Uniquely, she examines only female writers in order to gauge the changing ways in which Syrian women perceived the function of masculinity, and the impact certain attitudes towards masculinity have on men, women, children and Syrian society, ... Read more

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What can novels tell us about masculinity in Syria? In this book, Lovisa Berg explores over 20 Syrian novels covering the last 50 years of the 20th century. Uniquely, she examines only female writers in order to gauge the changing ways in which Syrian women perceived the function of masculinity, and the impact certain attitudes towards masculinity have on men, women, children and Syrian society,
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La letteratura palestinese nell’immaginario italiano

by Valeria Roma ...

L’antologia letteraria di Valeria Roma è un’opera necessaria. Con delicatezza e sensibilità, lascia riemergere dall’oblio della censura le storie del popolo palestinese: le sue innumerevoli trasformazioni sociali e culturali, i sogni individuali e il desiderio comune di liberazione, le memorie collettive e i ricordi familiari, il tormento dell’esilio e l’incredibile resilienza dei bambini che, ... Read more

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L’antologia letteraria di Valeria Roma è un’opera necessaria. Con delicatezza e sensibilità, lascia riemergere dall’oblio della censura le storie del popolo palestinese: le sue innumerevoli trasformazioni sociali e culturali, i sogni individuali e il desiderio comune di liberazione, le memorie collettive e i ricordi familiari, il tormento dell’esilio e l’incredibile resilienza dei bambini che,
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Gilgamesh

The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Wedded to the Land?

New Body Politics

Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights

The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800–1989)

Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

Negotiating the Modern

Le personnage arabe palestinien dans la littérature hébraïque du XXe siècle

Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime

Since 1948

The Worlding of Arabic Literature

The Dune's Twisted Edge

Reforming Modernity

Writing Cyprus

Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

بيوغرافيا اللَّيل

مقامات في حضرة المحترم

Die dreizehn Bücher der deutschen Seele

Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo V

Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas

Arabistik

Masculinity and Syrian Fiction

Ignorare l'assenza