Farewell Damascus

Author : Ghada Samman
Publisher : Darf Publishers Ltd.
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781850773023

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Farewell, Damascus by Ghada Samman Pdf

Ghada Samman’s most recent novel, Farewell, Damascus is set in early 1960’s Damascus – a city that now languishes in the grip of corruption and political oppression following the Baathist takeover in Syria. The book opens as Zain Khayyal, a university student and aspiring young writer, plots an early-morning escape from her house as her husband slumbers. Her mission: to get an illicit abortion, plans for which she’s divulged to no one, and to announce that she wants out of her stifling marriage. A rebel and a trail-blazer par excellence, Zain draws down the wrath of polite society and the authorities, political and religious alike, as she challenges attitudes and practices that demean rather than dignify, and a ruling regime that sucks the life out of both oppressed and oppressor. As the plot unfolds, Zain finds her way as a student to a neighbouring country which, though it grants her the freedom, respect and appreciation she had lacked in her homeland, becomes a place of anguished exile. Armed with her accustomed humour, pathos and knack for suspense, Samman fearlessly tackles issues that roil societies across the globe to this day: the stigma that attaches to the divorced woman but not the divorced man; whether to choose a life partner for love, or for social status, prestige and material security; whether abortion is a crime or a means of forestalling needless undeserved suffering; lesbian intimacy as a declaration of freedom from male abuse and tyranny; rape as an instrument of humiliation and subjugation and unconditional acceptance as healing balm. Farewell, Damascus is both a paean to a beloved homeland and an ode to human dignity.

Author : Radwa Ashour,Ferial Ghazoul,Hasna Reda-Mekdashi
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781617975547

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Arab Women Writers by Radwa Ashour,Ferial Ghazoul,Hasna Reda-Mekdashi Pdf

Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a meticulously researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section, in nine essays that cover the Arab Middle East from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Yemen, critics and writers from the Arab world examine the origin and evolution of women's writing in each country in the region, addressing fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographical writing. The second part of the volume contains bibliographical entries for over 1,200 Arab women writers from the last third of the nineteenth century through 1999. Each entry contains a short biography and a bibliography of each author's published works. This section also includes Arab women's writing in French and English, as well as a bibliography of works translated into English. With its broad scope and extensive research, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Arabic literature, women's studies, or comparative literature. Contributors: Emad Abu Ghazi, Radwa Ashour, Mohammed Berrada, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Subhi Hadidi, Haydar Ibrahim, Yumna al-'Id, Su'ad al-Mani', Iman al-Qadi, Amina Rachid, Huda al-Sadda, Hatim al-Sakr.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1759
Category : World history
ISBN : BL:A0024485081

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An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brigitte M. Wareham
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398496545

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Farewell My Beloved, Goodbye Dear Leader by Brigitte M. Wareham Pdf

The only certainty in life is death. Even the most powerful leaders throughout history were unable to cheat the Grim Reaper. World leaders, whether revered or reviled, are rarely allowed to exit gracefully from life but instead receive a state funeral, a major international event incorporating splendid symbols and messages, religious faith, and tradition. The body of Tsar Alexander III was carried across half of Russia before finally being buried in St. Petersburg. People paid obscene amounts of money for a room that gave a glimpse of Queen Victoria’s fascinating State funeral. The cortège for China’s Empress-Dowager Cixi was not to be photographed – nevertheless photos showed up a century later. For political reasons Generalissimo Franco’s body was exhumed decades after his death. The world became acquainted with a rather unusual ancient Roman Catholic ritual, when Pope John Paul I died. The body of India’s Indira Gandhi was confined to sacred flames. The last journey of Marshal Tito turned into an event of “Funeral Diplomacy”, whilst Khomeini’s funeral ended in frenzy and tumult. In 2021 the massive restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic meant a rigid downsizing of Prince Philip’s funeral, hardly any guests were allowed to attend. This revealing and entertaining book provides an insight into unique obsequies from across the world, seen as both a celebration of life and the honouring of death.

Author : Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : WISC:89012993044

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The Library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society by Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (London, England) Pdf

Author : Omar Imady,David Commins,David W. Lesch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538122860

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Historical Dictionary of Syria by Omar Imady,David Commins,David W. Lesch Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Syria, Fourth Edition covers the recent events in Syria as well as the history that led up to these events. The cross-referenced dictionary section has over 500 entries on significant persons, places and events, political parties and institutions, literature, music and the arts. .

Author : Riad Ismat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030026684

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Artists, Writers and The Arab Spring by Riad Ismat Pdf

The book aims to explore the foresight of prominent Middle Eastern authors and artists who anticipated the Arab Spring, which resulted in demands for change in the repressive and corrupted regimes. Eventually, it led to cracking down on the protests with excessive force, which caused tremendous human suffering, destruction, and also escalation of extreme insurgency. The author analyzes major literary and artistic works from Egypt, Syria and Tunisia, and their political context. This monograph will be helpful to scholars and students in the growing field of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and everyone who is interested in the politics of MENA.

Author : Henry Baker Tristram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108042055

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The Land of Israel by Henry Baker Tristram Pdf

Ornithologist and clergyman H. B. Tristram's account, published in 1865, of Palestine illuminates the contemporary relationship between religion and the natural sciences.

Author : Henry Baker Tristram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Israel
ISBN : UCAL:B3158180

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The Land of Israel by Henry Baker Tristram Pdf

Author : A.B. TRISTRAM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BDM:13020100015870

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The Land of Israel, a journal of travels in Palestine by A.B. TRISTRAM Pdf

Author : Ray Deaton
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798891272606

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The Final Farewell by Ray Deaton Pdf

About the Book Although to say goodbye is different in every country and is said for various reasons, there is one no one will ever want to hear and that is the FINAL FAREWELL! About the Author Ray Deaton is not an official of any church or denomination; he is a member of a church. He IS first, last, and always a child of the one and only LIVING GOD. He has relied on HIS inspiration and direction for this book. Deaton has lived in this world for the better part of a hundred years, and HE has placed him in a variety of experiences many of which are part of this book.

Author : Jonathan Mayhew WAINWRIGHT (Provisional Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023500900

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The Pathways and Abiding Places of Our Lord ... Second Edition. [With Plates.] by Jonathan Mayhew WAINWRIGHT (Provisional Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York.) Pdf

Author : Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
Publisher : New York : D. Appleton
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Eretz Israel
ISBN : HARVARD:AH42WI

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The Pathways & Abiding Places of Our Lord by Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright Pdf

Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Egypt
ISBN : UVA:X030223599

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The Boy Travellers in the Far East by Thomas Wallace Knox Pdf

Author : Peter Wien
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315412207

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Arab Nationalism by Peter Wien Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Avant-Propos -- 1 Introduction: a critique of Arab nationalism -- 2 The trials and tribulations of the poet Fu'ad al-Khatib: a biographical essay on the origins of Arab nationalism -- 3 Holding up the mirror: imperialism and the poetics of cultural pan-Arabism -- 3.1 Saladin the Victor: national Saints, Great Men, and the rise of the individual -- 3.2 From the glory of conquest to paradise lost: al-Andalus in Arab historical consciousness -- 4 Of Kings and Cavemen: museums and nationalist museology in twentieth-century Egypt -- 5 Damascus transfers: dead bodies and their translocal meanings -- 6 Nearly victorious: the art of staging Arab military prowess -- 7 Arab nationalism, fascism, and the Jews -- 8 Epilogue and conclusion: broken narratives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index