Concerto Al Quds

Author : Adūnīs
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300197648

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Concerto Al-Quds by Adūnīs Pdf

A cri de coeur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an extended, innovative poem on Jerusalem/Al-Quds. It is a hymn to a troubled city embattled by the conflicting demands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Adonis's city, as a coveted land, ought to suggest the universal love of humanity; as a land of tragedy, a place of contending history and beliefs, and a locus of bitterness, conflict, hatred, rivalry, and blood. Wrapping multiple voices, historical references, and political viewpoints within his ecstatic lyricism, Adonis has created a provocative work of unique beauty and profound wisdom, beautifully rendered in English by award-winning poet Khaled Mattawa.

Author : Tahrir Hamdi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755617845

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Imagining Palestine by Tahrir Hamdi Pdf

All national identities are somewhat fluid, held together by collective beliefs and practices as much as official territory and borders. In the context of the Palestinians, whose national status in so many instances remains unresolved, the articulation and 'imagination' of national identity is particularly urgent. This book explores the ways that Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists and ordinary citizens 'imagine' their homeland, examining the works of key Palestinian thinkers and writers such as Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Ghassan Kanafani and Naji Al Ali. Deploying Benedict Anderson's notion of 'Imagined Communities' and Edward Soja's theory of 'Third Space', Tahrir Hamdi argues that the imaginative construction of Palestine is a key element in the Palestinians' ongoing struggle. An interdisciplinary work drawing upon critical theory, postcolonial studies and literary analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Palestine and Middle East studies and Arabic literature

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253045089

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Israel Denial by Cary Nelson Pdf

A work of “rigorous intellectual inquiry” critiquing the BDS movement in academia (Jewish Journal). Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published—individually and collectively—in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting peace. The faculty discussed here have devoted a significant part of their professional lives to delegitimizing the Jewish state. While there are beliefs they hold in common—including the conviction that there is nothing good to say about Israel—they also develop distinctive arguments designed to recruit converts to their cause in novel ways. They do so both as writers and as teachers; Israel Denial is the first to give substantial attention to anti-Zionist pedagogy. No effort to understand the BDS movement’s impact on the academy and public policy can be complete without the kind of understanding this book offers. A co-publication of the Academic Engagement Network

Author : Ric Knowles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316517246

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International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism by Ric Knowles Pdf

A far-reaching examination of how international theatre festivals shape 21st-century intercultural negotiation and exchange.

Author : Sirène H. Harb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000710946

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Articulations of Resistance by Sirène H. Harb Pdf

Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry maps an interdisciplinary model of critical inquiry to demonstrate the intimate link and multilayered connections between poetry and resistance. In this study of contemporary Arab-American poetry, Sirène Harb analyzes how resistance, defined as the force challenging the dominant, intervenes in ways of rethinking the local and the global vis-à-vis traditional paradigms of time, space, language and value.

Author : Khaled Mattawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1931337446

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Amorisco by Khaled Mattawa Pdf

The third book by an Arab-American poet who explores the hybridization of cultures.

Author : Mar?m Mi?r?
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592645

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A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor by Mar?m Mi?r? Pdf

First American publication of Syrian poet Maram al-Massri, presented in a bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Author : Khaled Mattawa
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1931337047

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Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa Pdf

His first book, was enthusiastically received. Mattawa received the prestigious Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University.

Author : Adūnīs
Publisher : Margellos World Republic of Letters
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : 0300181256

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Adonis by Adūnīs Pdf

The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot's on English-language verse. This volume serves as the first comprehensive survey of Adonis's work, allowing English readers to admire the arc of a remarkable literary career through the labors of the poet's own handpicked translator, Khaled Mattawa. Experimental in form and prophetic in tone, Adonis's poetry sings exultantly of both the sweet promise of eros and the lingering problems of the self. Steeped in the anguish of exile and the uncertainty of existence, Adonis demonstrates the poet's profound affection for Arabic and European lyrical traditions even as his poems work to destabilize those very aesthetic and moral sensibilities. This collection positions the work of Adonis within the pantheon of the great poets of exile, including César Vallejo, Joseph Brodsky, and Paul Celan, providing for English readers the most complete vision yet of the work of the man whom the cultural critic Edward Said called "today's most daring and provocative Arab poet."

Author : Raba'i al-Madhoun
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846591228

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The Lady from Tel Aviv by Raba'i al-Madhoun Pdf

In the economy class of a plane, the lives of two passengers intersect: Walid, a Palestinian writer, is returning to Gaza for the first time in thirty-eight years; Dana, an Israeli actress, is on her way back to Tel Aviv. As the night sky hurtles past, what each confides and conceals will expose the chasm between them in the land they both call home. Walid soon discovers that Gaza has changed beyond all recognition. Yet through the haze of checkpoints and lives lived across borders, he finds a message from Dana that will change the course of his life. The Lady from Tel Aviv is a powerful and poetic story of love, loss and the desire to belong. The Lady from Tel Aviv will take you to the height of reading pleasure' Elias Khoury Al-Madhoun brings Gaza to life vividly through his characters and his ability to acknowledge the absurd within the tragic.' Selma Dabbagh

Author : Nicholas Roe,Professor of English Literature Nicholas Roe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300124651

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John Keats by Nicholas Roe,Professor of English Literature Nicholas Roe Pdf

Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.

Author : Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780892554928

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Rocket Fantastic by Gabrielle Calvocoressi Pdf

Now in paperback, a spellbinding reinvention and exploration of self, gender, and family. Like nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer. “A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. . . Both innovative and sensual, Rocket Fantastic is a vital book for our time.”—Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735214248

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North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah Pdf

A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply in religion, while her children hunger for the freedoms of their new homeland, a rift that will have lifealtering consequences for the entire family. Set against the backdrop of real events, North of Dawn is a provocative, devastating story of love, loyalty, and national identity that asks whether it is ever possible to escape a legacy of violence—and if so, at what cost.

Author : Ghassān Zaqṭān
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Arabic poetry
ISBN : 199982766X

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The Silence that Remains by Ghassān Zaqṭān Pdf

Author : Adūnīs
Publisher : Lannan Translations Selection
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000095663161

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Mihyar of Damascus, His Songs by Adūnīs Pdf

This breakthrough collection by a major world poet established a new direction in Arabic poetry.