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Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethic……続きを見る

In Ecotheology and Love: The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin, Bahar Davary points to the interrelation of religion, poetry, and ecology from a comparative perspective with an ……続きを見る

In January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus ……続きを見る

عباس محمود العقاد أديب ومفكر وصحفي وشاعر مصري، ولد في أسوان عام 1889م، وهو عضو سابق في مجلس النواب المصري، وعضو في مجمع اللغة العربية، لم يتوقف إنتاجه الأدبي بالرغم من الظروف القاسية التي مر بها؛ حي……続きを見る

Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sy……続きを見る

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most c……続きを見る

This book works on the interface between literature, culture, and discourse. It is entirely devoted to the reading of some of Zafzāf’s novels that came out in the early 1970s and in the late 1980s, ……続きを見る

One of the most prominent Arabic novels to document the intricate details of the revolt of the Arabs against the Turks and their collaboration with the English, The Tree Stump brings to life a criti……続きを見る

In this post–Arab Spring novel, Ahmad Tarawneh tells the story of conflicting loyalties between two Jordanian brothers, one who serves in the Jordanian national security division, and another who be……続きを見る

Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book shows how Bildungsroman impacted the formation of the Egyptian narrative. On a lar……続きを見る

The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars, and the second group is travellers. These two resources comp……続きを見る

The author demonstrates sophisticated knowledge and understanding of Kurdish history and of postcolonial, poststructuralist, and related literary theories. This book gives rich contextual detail abo……続きを見る

The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events as potentially contributing to a more comprehensive understanding o……続きを見る

The book investigates relations between the ‘East’ and ‘West’ which have been forming and evolving from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of material covering a selection of Am……続きを見る

The book comprehensively examines the Sh‘ir magazine published in Beirut (1957-1964; 1967-1969). The magazine’s editors sought to generate a profound change in the role and form of Arabic poetry as ……続きを見る

Die Autorin beschäftigt sich mit den einschneidenden – traumatisierenden wie faszinierenden – Stationen der Kulturbegegnung von Ost und West. Sie untersucht die vielschichtigen Facetten des Orients ……続きを見る

Die Autorin rekonstruiert Goethes Persien-Bild, wie es sich einerseits aus dem «West-Östlichen Divan» und andererseits aus den umfangreichen Nachforschungen, Lektüren, Briefwechseln und Schriften er……続きを見る

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explore……続きを見る

This book adopts an integrated approach to the study of contact literature through collaboration between theories of World Englishes and translation studies. The author proposes an interactive frame……続きを見る

Zakariyya Tamir is Syria's foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In this, the first English language monograph on Tamir's entire oeuvre, Alessandro C……続きを見る

Op een koude novemberochtend stapt Simone Korkus in haar auto en begint een gepassioneerde zoektocht aan beide kanten van de muur die Israël en Palestina scheidt. Ze reist langs een wirwar van hekke……続きを見る

An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight si……続きを見る

This edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical essays that explore the representation of the migrant subject in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and discuss its role in shaping ……続きを見る

Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction presents Islamophobia as a manifestation of racism in literary texts to understand American perspective of Islam and Muslims. By deconstructing sele……続きを見る

Je recommande vivement la lecture de Nausikaa à tous les amateurs de littérature classique et de mythologie. Ce chef-d'œuvre intemporel de Homère offre une fenêtre fascinante sur le monde antique, t……続きを見る

This is a translation from Hebrew of renowned author Rachman Chaim's first book and constitutes critique of Israel's institutions and society in general, and of its academic system in particular. It……続きを見る

Tuhannen ja yhden yön tarinoita III on kokoelma arabialaisia tarinoita ja satuja, jotka ovat vankasti kietoutuneet itämaisiin mysteereihin ja eksoottiseen tunnelmaan. Kirja edustaa itämaisen kertoma……続きを見る

Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North America and Europe – and the phenomenon of ‘Rumima……続きを見る

In The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature: A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II, Dilek Bulut Sarikaya explores medieval Anatolia, where humans' conn……続きを見る

Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" ……続きを見る