Libyan Novel

Author : Charis Olszok
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474457477

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Libyan Novel by Charis Olszok Pdf

Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile and in the Jamahiriyya, Charis Olszok focuses on the prominence of encounters between humans, animals and the land, the poetics of vulnerability that emerge from them, and the vision of humans as creatures (makhluqat) in which they are framed.

Author : Hisham Matar
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440336648

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In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar Pdf

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Hisham Matar's Anatomy of a Disappearance. Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn’t he supposed to be away on business yet again? Why is he going into that strange building with the green shutters? Why did he lie? Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand—where the sound of the telephone ringing becomes a portent of grave danger; where his mother frantically burns his father’s cherished books; where a stranger full of sinister questions sits outside in a parked car all day; where his best friend’s father can disappear overnight, next to be seen publicly interrogated on state television. In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.

Author : Muammar Qaddafi,Henry M. Christman
Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015013022796

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Qaddafi's Green Book by Muammar Qaddafi,Henry M. Christman Pdf

Author : Olszok Charis Olszok
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474457484

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Libyan Novel by Olszok Charis Olszok Pdf

Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile and in the Jamahiriyya, Charis Olszok focuses on the prominence of encounters between humans, animals and the land, the poetics of vulnerability that emerge from them, and the vision of humans as creatures (makhluqat) in which they are framed.

Author : Peter Cole,Brian McQuinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190210960

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The Libyan Revolution and Its Aftermath by Peter Cole,Brian McQuinn Pdf

This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e.g. Misrata, Zintan), tribal/communal (e.g. Beni Walid) or political (e.g. the Muslim Brotherhood) took its own path into the uprisings and subsequent conflict of 2011, according to their own histories and relationship to Muammar Qadhafi's regime. The story of each group is told by the authors, based on reportage and expert analysis, from the outbreak of protests in Benghazi in February 2011 through to the transitional period following the end of fighting in October 2011. They describe the emergence of Libya's new politics through the unique stories of those who made it happen, or those who fought against it. The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath brings together leading journalists, academics, and specialists, each with extensive field experience amidst the constituencies they depict, drawing on interviews with fighters, politicians and civil society leaders who have contributed their own account of events to this volume.

Author : Daniella Kuzmanovic,Elisabeth Özdalga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137477583

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Novel and Nation in the Muslim World by Daniella Kuzmanovic,Elisabeth Özdalga Pdf

Exploring the relationship between fiction and nation formation in the Muslim world through 12 unique studies from Azerbaijan, Libya, Iran, Algeria, and Yemen, amongst others, this book shows how fiction reflects and relates the complex entanglements of nation, religion, and modernity in the process of political and cultural identity formation.

Author : Ahmed Fagih
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469100401

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5 Novels by Ahmed Fagih Pdf

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Author : Hisham Matar
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345807762

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The Return by Hisham Matar Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE: from Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of answers to his father's disappearance. In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballa Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning." Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for biography/autobiography, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, France's Prix du livre étranger, and a finalist for the Orwell Book Prize and the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, The Return is a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power.

Author : Mansour Bushnaf
Publisher : Darf Publishers Ltd.
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781850772767

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Chewing Gum by Mansour Bushnaf Pdf

With its satirical and semi-journalistic style, Chewing Gum is an existential quest to understand how a society exists beneath a repressive dictatorship. The rhythmic act of chewing relentlessly continues as individuals, time and land turn to waste. In this debut novel, no one escapes the critical gaze of a writer who witnessed first-hand the brutality of Gaddafi's regime. At times downright funny and at times poignantly sad, Chewing Gum depicts the academics, politicians and businessmen of Libya who all claim a monopoly on the truth of the country.

Author : Vijay Prashad
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849351126

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Arab Spring, Libyan Winter by Vijay Prashad Pdf

The world watched as the bud of the Arab Spring was buried under the cold darkness of the Libyan Winter.

Author : Hisham Matar
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143185925

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In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar Pdf

On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, 9-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business—except that Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street wearing a pair of dark glasses. But why doesn’t he come over when he knows Suleiman’s mother is falling apart? Whispers intensify around Suleiman as his friend’s father disappears and his mother frantically burns his father’s books. As Suleiman begins to wonder whether his father has gone for good, it feels as if the walls of his home will break with the secrets held within.

Author : Jason Pack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197654248

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Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder by Jason Pack Pdf

We no longer inhabit a world governed by international coordination, a unified NATO bloc, or an American hegemon. Traditionally, the decline of one empire leads to a restoration in the balance of power, via a struggle among rival systems of order. Yet this dynamic is surprisingly absent today; instead, the superpowers have all, at times, sought to promote what Jason Pack terms the 'Enduring Disorder'. He contends that Libya's ongoing conflict-more so than the civil wars in Yemen, Syria, Venezuela or Ukraine-constitutes the ideal microcosm in which to identify the salient features of this new era of geopolitics. The country's post-Qadhafi trajectory has been molded by the stark absence of coherent international diplomacy; while Libya's incremental implosion has precipitated cross-border contagion, further corroding global institutions and international partnership. Pack draws on over two decades of research in and on Libya and Syria to highlight the Kafkaesque aspects of today's global affairs. He shows how even the threats posed by the Arab Spring, and the Benghazi assassination of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, couldn't occasion a unified Western response. Rather, they have further undercut global collaboration, demonstrating the self-reinforcing nature of the progressively collapsing world order.

Author : Esther Kofod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989054306

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The Libyan by Esther Kofod Pdf

THE LIBYAN is a captivating memoir sweeping four continents and several decades on a journey of passion, terror, and betrayal. It puts a face on the lives and culture of Libya and Libyans during the early years of the ruthless dictator, Muammar Ghaddafi. It is the story of Kamal, a reluctant member of Ghaddafi's inner circle, and his American wife, bound together by passion and fate. When they return to begin a new life in Libya, they find themselves in a country terrorized by random arrests and public hangings. Driven by his longing for a better Libya, Kamal struggles to survive politically, while his wife lives in fear of her husband being arrested or killed. As Ghaddafi transformed the richest nation in Africa into the most repressed and brutalized country in the Arab world, Kamal battles to realize his dream for Libya's future, but soon becomes a target of the dreaded secret police. Forced to leave his beloved Libya and hunted by rogue CIA and Libyan agents in the United States, he joins a group of elite Libyan dissidents to establish the most powerful of all the opposition parties, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. In the end, The Libyan has to choose between the woman he loves and his obsession to overthrow Ghaddafi. ""Kofod is a brilliant observer of detail and perceptive in her descriptions of character... Her love for Libya is evident and she presented a vivid account of its modern history through the eyes of Lina and Kamal." -Libya TV (English)" ""The Libyan offers a unique perspective on living under one of the worst dictatorships of the 20th century...Kofod fluently weaves a tale of romance with her own observations of Libya to produce this gripping novel." -Tripoli Post, Libya" ""Ms. Kofod has a strong voice and a heck of a story which she tells with integrity and feeling." -Ethan Chorin, Author Translating Libya"

Author : Gebreyesus Hailu
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821444450

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The Conscript by Gebreyesus Hailu Pdf

Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the Italian colonial army against the nationalist Libyan forces fighting for their freedom from Italy’s colonial rule. Anticipating midcentury thinkers Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, Hailu paints a devastating portrait of Italian colonialism. Some of the most poignant passages of the novel include the awakening of the novel’s hero, Tuquabo, to his ironic predicament of being both under colonial rule and the instrument of suppressing the colonized Libyans. The novel’s remarkable descriptions of the battlefield awe the reader with mesmerizing images, both disturbing and tender, of the Libyan landscape—with its vast desert sands, oases, horsemen, foot soldiers, and the brutalities of war—uncannily recalled in the satellite images that were brought to the homes of millions of viewers around the globe in 2011, during the country’s uprising against its former leader, Colonel Gaddafi.

Author : Ahmed Fagih
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469100418

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30 Short Stories by Ahmed Fagih Pdf

These are thirty of the finest short stories selected from the large out put of the master of the craft Dr Ahmed Fagih, to give some insight of the writer and his works.