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• Translation of: Zuqaq al-Midaqq.

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• Cairo (Egypt) — Fiction.
• Allegories. gsafd

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Part of the series Interlink world fiction;Interlink world fiction.
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• Translated from Arabic.
• Israel –Cover.
• This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. An informer for the Zionist state, his stupidity, candor, and cowardice make him more of a victim than a villain but in a series of tragicomic episodes, he is gradually transformed from a disaster-haunted, gullible collaborator into a Palestinian-no hero still, but a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness. –Book cover.

Subjects:

• Jewish-Arab relations — Fiction.
• Palestine — History — Fiction.
• Palestinian Arabs — Fiction.
• Palestine — In literature.
• Middle East — Palestine. fast (OCoLC)fst01207534
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references.
• Oh green bird — My lover asks me — When I fell in love — You still ask me about the day of my birth — Oh, my love — All words — I hadn’t told them about you — I hate to love like other people — Your love — From the moment you loved me — When I am in love (no. 1) — When I am in love (no. 2) — I love you when you cry — I don’t know my birthday — Your eyes are like a rainy night — I wrote the name of the one I loved — Oh traveler — Our love — Don’t worry — When I travel into your eyes — Like a fish — I am the prophet of love — Undress yourself — I have changed so much — Because my love for you — I want to write different words for you — That March morning when you came walking toward me — When I told you.
• When God bestowed women on men — I was never a king — Why do you erase history — I taught the children of the world — Pure like a necklace of jasmine — I love you — Your love took me — I wear you — My kingdom of little things (excerpt) — Out of my desire — The two years — When I am with you — I’m not a teacher — My letters to you — In the summer — Every time I kiss you — My love runs to you — Every man — Stay out of my sight — When rain fell on both of us — I curl up — I hope one day — When you visit me — Every time you traveled — Did you ever think — The day I met you — Close all my books — Yesterday I thought — Please — Why do you ask me to write you — Pull out the dagger buried in my side — From the airplane (excerpt) — Before I entered the cities of your mouth (excerpt).
• It is all over (excerpt) — What would your femininity say about me (excerpt) — When you accompany me — When you danced with me that night — When you find a man — I knew — Your departure is not a tragedy — While Rome burned, you burned — Do you have a solution — Drink your coffee — I am accused of being like Shahrayar — Why do you telephone, my lady — You wear hippie clothes — Be assured, my lady — This is my last letter — About sea love — I learn by reading your body — To my love on New Year’s Eve — Will you allow me to take a holiday? — Time travels with you when you leave — Love during house arrest — Women, the knowledge of God — I will tell you: I love you — The talk of her hands — I am afraid — Who is the prettiest? — I conquer the universe with words.
• Original Arabic texted presented alongside English translation.

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• Qabbānī, Nizār — Translations into English.
• Qabbānī, Nizār. fast (OCoLC)fst00033613
• Translations. fast (OCoLC)fst01423791

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Part of the series Juan de la Cuesta hispanic monographs
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• Based on Cheikho’s Arabic text and others.
• Bibliography: p. 203-206.

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Part of the series Princeton oriental studies, no. 23;Oriental studies (Freer Gallery of Art) no. 23.
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• An analysis and new annotated edition of the following texts: Summa totius haeresis Saracenorum. Epistola Petri Cluniacensis ad Bernardum Claraevallis. Epistola Petri Pictavensis. Capitula Petri Pictavensis. Liber contra sectam sive haeresim Saracenorum.
• Bibliographical footnotes.

Subjects:

• Peter, the Venerable, approximately 1092-1156.
• Christianity and other religions — Islam.
• Islam — Relations — Christianity.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index.
• Introduction : a party with a hundred women : on dialogue, orientalism and women’s writing — Travellers’ tales : a typology — Author and self — The politics of time and space : a fractured modernity — Voyages in manistan : the female traveller and the secret woman — Islam : return journeys — Towards dialogue?
• Women’s Writing and Muslim Societies looks at the rise in works concerning Muslim societies by both western and Muslim women–from pioneering female travellers like Freya Stark and Edith Wharton in the early twentieth century, whose accounts of the Orient were usually playful and humorous, to the present day and books such as Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without My Daughter, which present a radically different view of Muslim Societies marked by fear, hostility and even disgust. The author, Sharif Gemie, also considers a new range of female Muslim writers whose works suggest a variety of other perspectives that speak of difficult journeys, the problems of integration, identity crises and the changing nature of Muslim cultures in the process, this volume examines varied journeys across cultural, political and religious borders, discussing the problems faced by female travellers, the problems of trans-cultural romances and the difficulties of constructing dialogue between enemy camps. –P. [4] of cover.

Subjects:

• Muslim women authors.
• Women in Islam.
• Arabic literature — History and criticism.
• Women in literature.
• Islam and civil society.
• Islam and politics.

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• In English translated from the German.
• Originally published: Arabische Literatur, postmodern. Munich : edition text + kritik, 2004.
• Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. Organised around the central themes of memory, place and gender, each of which is discussed in an introductory essay, this volume provides a critical framework for Arabic literature, locating it alongside other contemporary world literature. The contributors argue that Arabic literature engages with the global postmodern condition without denying its own traditions. As such, Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives paves the way for an important cultural dialogue between East and West. This collection is ideal for students of Arabic and comparative literature and equally of interest to general readers. –P. [4] of cover.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Postmodernism : facets of a figure of thought / Ines Kappert — The end of illusions : on Arab postmodernism / Andreas Pflitsch — Introduction / Angelika Neuwirth — The divinity of the profane : representations of the divine in the poetry of Adonis / Stefan Weidner — Days of amber, city of saffron : Edwar al-Kharrat remembers and writes an unintended autobiography / Andreas Pflitsch — On the necessity of writing the present : Elias Khoury and the birth of the novel in Lebanon / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi — Historical memory in times of decline : Saadallah Wannous and rereading history / Friederike Pannewick — Linguistic temptations and erotic unveilings : Rashid al-Daif on language, love, war, and martyrdom / Angelika Neuwirth — Memories for the future : Abdelrahman Munif / Susanne Enderwitz — Authenticity as counter-strategy : fighting Sadat’s open door politics : Gamal al-Ghitani and The epistle of insights into the destinies / Stephan Guth — This reality is deplorable : the Egypt of Sonallah Ibrahim : between media representation and experienced everyday reality / Andrea Haist — Hebrew Bible and Arabic poetry : reclaiming Palestine as a homeland made of words : Mahmoud Darwish / Angelika Neuwirth — Traditions and counter-traditions in the land of the Bible : Emile Habibi’s de-mythologizing of history / Angelika Neuwirth — The poet of the Arabic short story : Zakariyya Tamir / Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck — Introduction / Andreas Pflitsch — From the Orient to the Occident it is just a reflection : the mirror-worlds of Habib Tengour / Regina Keil-Sagawe — I dream in no man’s land : Anton Shammas / Christian Szyska — Exile at home : Samir Naqqash, prophecy as poetics / Osman Hajjar — Reading the ruins : repressed memory and multiple identity in the work of Sélim Nassib / Christian Junge — British-Lebanese identity fallacies : Tony Hanania and a malady called homesickness / Andreas Pflitsch — The forbidden paradise : how Etel Adnan learnt to paint in Arabic / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi — So we a

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• Arabic literature — 20th century — History and criticism.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index.
• Prologue: Egyptomania — Hieroglyphic delirium before Champollion — A revolutionary childhood — Reluctant schoolboy — Egypt encountered — Paris and the Rosetta stone — Teenage professor — The race begins — Napoleon and Champollion — Exile and revolt — Breakthrough — An Egyptian renaissance — Curator at the Louvre — To Egypt, at last — In search of Ramesses — First professor of Egyptology — The hieroglyphs after Champollion — Postscript: geniuses and polymaths.
• Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Champollion, widely regarded as the founder of Egyptology. Andrew Robinson meticulously reconstructs how Champollion cracked the code of the hieroglyphic script, describing how Champollion started with Egyptian obelisks in Rome and papyri in European collections, sailed the Nile for a year, studied the tombs in the Valley of the Kings (a name he first coined), and carefully compared the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone to penetrate the mystery of the hieroglyphic text. Robinson also brings to life the rivalry between Champollion and the English scientist Thomas Young, who claimed credit for launching the decipherment, which Champollion hotly denied. There is much more to Champollion’s life than the Rosetta Stone and Robinson gives equal weight to the many roles he played in his tragically brief life, from a teenage professor in Revolutionary France to a supporter of Napoleon (whom he met), an exile, and a curator at the Louvre.

Subjects:

• Champollion, Jean-François, 1790-1832.
• Egyptologists — France — Biography.
• Egyptian language — Writing, Hieroglyphic.

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