Russian Arab Worlds

Author : Eileen Kane,Masha Kirasirova,Margaret Litvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197605769

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Russian-Arab Worlds by Eileen Kane,Masha Kirasirova,Margaret Litvin Pdf

"The Soviet Arabist Kulthum 'Awda-Vasilieva was born in 1892 to Orthodox Christian parents in Nazareth, in Ottoman Palestine. She died in Moscow in 1965, leaving autobiographical writings that help explain how this unwelcome fifth daughter of Palestinian peasants went on to become a distinguished Arabist in the USSR and possibly the first Arab female university professor anywhere. As she tells it in an essay translated in this book, luck played a role: the opening of an Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (Russian acronym IPPO) missionary school in Nazareth in 1885 helped lift a girl her own mother considered "ugly" and lacking prospects into a world of educational opportunities and social and geographic mobility. After Nazareth 'Awda received a scholarship to the IPPO women's seminary in Beit Jala and mastered Russian. As a young teacher back in Nazareth she met and married Ivan Vasiliev, a doctor at the IPPO hospital. On a summer 1914 visit to Vasiliev's parents in Kronstadt, the couple was stranded by World War I and stayed. After his death during the Russian Civil War the young widow, now called Klavdia Viktorovna Ode-Vasilieva, supported her three daughters by teaching hygiene and Russian literacy to peasants in Ukraine, before moving to what soon became Leningrad to work with the great Arabist Ignatii Krachkovskii. She would live in Russia for the next half century"--

Author : Klavdii︠a︡ Viktorovna Ode-Vasilʹeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Arab countries
ISBN : 0197605788

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Russian-Arab Worlds by Klavdii︠a︡ Viktorovna Ode-Vasilʹeva Pdf

"The Soviet Arabist Kulthum 'Awda-Vasilieva was born in 1892 to Orthodox Christian parents in Nazareth, in Ottoman Palestine. She died in Moscow in 1965, leaving autobiographical writings that help explain how this unwelcome fifth daughter of Palestinian peasants went on to become a distinguished Arabist in the USSR and possibly the first Arab female university professor anywhere. As she tells it in an essay translated in this book, luck played a role: the opening of an Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (Russian acronym IPPO) missionary school in Nazareth in 1885 helped lift a girl her own mother considered "ugly" and lacking prospects into a world of educational opportunities and social and geographic mobility. After Nazareth 'Awda received a scholarship to the IPPO women's seminary in Beit Jala and mastered Russian. As a young teacher back in Nazareth she met and married Ivan Vasiliev, a doctor at the IPPO hospital. On a summer 1914 visit to Vasiliev's parents in Kronstadt, the couple was stranded by World War I and stayed. After his death during the Russian Civil War the young widow, now called Klavdia Viktorovna Ode-Vasilieva, supported her three daughters by teaching hygiene and Russian literacy to peasants in Ukraine, before moving to what soon became Leningrad to work with the great Arabist Ignatii Krachkovskii. She would live in Russia for the next half century"--

Author : Yevgeny Primakov
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465019977

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Russia and the Arabs by Yevgeny Primakov Pdf

Part memoir, part history, Russia and the Arabs reveals the past half-century in the Middle East from a viewpoint seldom seen by Westerners. Yevgeny Primakov, formerly the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister of Russia, exposes how key political events unfolded through the personal interactions and rivalries among notable leaders from Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin to Anwar Sadat and Saddam Hussein, whom he knew personally. He shows how the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars developed, exposes Russia's previously unknown role in the 1991 Gulf War, and assesses Russia's Middle East policies alongside those of other foreign players, including the United States. The author's first-hand accounts of behind-the-scenes encounters and his insights into what really drove the region's key events make Russia and the Arabs an essential read for everyone interested in world affairs.

Author : Klavdii︠a︡ Viktorovna Ode-Vasilʹeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Arab countries
ISBN : 019760577X

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Russian-Arab Worlds by Klavdii︠a︡ Viktorovna Ode-Vasilʹeva Pdf

"The Soviet Arabist Kulthum 'Awda-Vasilieva was born in 1892 to Orthodox Christian parents in Nazareth, in Ottoman Palestine. She died in Moscow in 1965, leaving autobiographical writings that help explain how this unwelcome fifth daughter of Palestinian peasants went on to become a distinguished Arabist in the USSR and possibly the first Arab female university professor anywhere. As she tells it in an essay translated in this book, luck played a role: the opening of an Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (Russian acronym IPPO) missionary school in Nazareth in 1885 helped lift a girl her own mother considered "ugly" and lacking prospects into a world of educational opportunities and social and geographic mobility. After Nazareth 'Awda received a scholarship to the IPPO women's seminary in Beit Jala and mastered Russian. As a young teacher back in Nazareth she met and married Ivan Vasiliev, a doctor at the IPPO hospital. On a summer 1914 visit to Vasiliev's parents in Kronstadt, the couple was stranded by World War I and stayed. After his death during the Russian Civil War the young widow, now called Klavdia Viktorovna Ode-Vasilieva, supported her three daughters by teaching hygiene and Russian literacy to peasants in Ukraine, before moving to what soon became Leningrad to work with the great Arabist Ignatii Krachkovskii. She would live in Russia for the next half century"--

Author : Rudolf Loewenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Middle East
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120677518

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Russian Materials on Arabs and Arab Countries: a Selective Bibliography by Rudolf Loewenthal Pdf

Author : Rudolf Loewenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469788618

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Russian Materials on Arabs and Arab Countries : a Selective Bibliography by Rudolf Loewenthal Pdf

Author : Andrej Kreutz
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066847636

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Russia in the Middle East by Andrej Kreutz Pdf

Kreutz examines the political strategy and diplomatic engagement of the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union toward the Arab states in Southwest Asia and Egypt. He argues that Washington can better engage Moscow as a stabilizing force in the Middle East as well as a collaborator in the struggle against Islamic terrorism.

Author : Dmitri V. Trenin,Alexey Malashenko
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870032943

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Russia's Restless Frontier by Dmitri V. Trenin,Alexey Malashenko Pdf

The conflict in Chechnya, going through its low- and high-intensity phases, has been doggedly accompanying Russia's development. In the last decade, the Chechen war was widely covered, both in Russia and in the West. While most books look at the causes of the war, explain its zigzag course, and condemn the brutalities and crimes associated with it, this book is different. Its focus lies beyond the Caucasus battlefield. In Russia's Restless Frontier, Dmitri Trenin and Aleksei Malashenko examine the implications of the war with Chechnya for Russia's post-Soviet evolution. Considering Chechnya's impact on Russia's military, domestic politics, foreign policy, and ethnic relations, the authors contend that the Chechen factor must be addressed before Russia can continue its development.

Author : Alekseĭ Mikhaĭlovich Vasilʹev,Alexei Vassiliev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UOM:39015032763958

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Russian Policy in the Middle East by Alekseĭ Mikhaĭlovich Vasilʹev,Alexei Vassiliev Pdf

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher : London : Routledge and Kegan Paul
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002164229

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The Soviet Union and the Middle East by Walter Laqueur Pdf

Author : Aaron S. Klieman
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015004950708

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Soviet Russia and the Middle East by Aaron S. Klieman Pdf

Author : Rebecca C. Johnson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501753305

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Stranger Fictions by Rebecca C. Johnson Pdf

Zaynab, first published in 1913, is widely cited as the first Arabic novel, yet the previous eight decades saw hundreds of novels translated into Arabic from English and French. This vast literary corpus influenced generations of Arab writers but has, until now, been considered a curious footnote in the genre's history. Incorporating these works into the history of the Arabic novel, Stranger Fictions offers a transformative new account of modern Arabic literature, world literature, and the novel. Rebecca C. Johnson rewrites the history of the global circulation of the novel by moving Arabic literature from the margins of comparative literature to its center. Considering the wide range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century translation practices—including "bad" translation, mistranslation, and pseudotranslation—Johnson argues that Arabic translators did far more than copy European works; they authored new versions of them, producing sophisticated theorizations of the genre. These translations and the reading practices they precipitated form the conceptual and practical foundations of Arab literary modernity, necessitating an overhaul of our notions of translation, cultural exchange, and the global. Examining nearly a century of translations published in Beirut, Cairo, Malta, Paris, London, and New York, from Qiat Rūbinun Kurūzī (The story of Robinson Crusoe) in 1835 to pastiched crime stories in early twentieth-century Egyptian magazines, Johnson shows how translators theorized the Arab world not as Europe's periphery but as an alternative center in a globalized network. Stranger Fictions affirms the central place of (mis)translation in both the history of the novel in Arabic and the novel as a transnational form itself.

Author : Kirasirova
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0197685692

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The Eastern International by Kirasirova Pdf

Author : Samuel Ramani
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805260035

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Putin's War on Ukraine by Samuel Ramani Pdf

Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Vladimir Putin viewed this attack on a neighbour as a legacy-defining mission, which sought to restore a central element of Russia’s sphere of influence and undo Ukraine’s surprisingly resilient democratic experiment. These aspirations were swiftly eviscerated, as the conflict degenerated into a bloody war of attrition and the Russian economy crumbled under the weight of sanctions. This book argues that Putin’s desire to unite Russians around a common set of principles and consolidate his personal brand of authoritarianism prompted him to pursue a policy of global counter-revolution; it was this which inspired Russia’s military interventions in Crimea, Donbas and Syria, later steering Putin to war against Kyiv. Samuel Ramani explores why Putin opted for all-out regime change in Ukraine, rather than a smaller-scale intervention in Donbas, and considers the impact on his own regime’s legitimacy. This focus on the domestic drivers of invasion contrasts with alternative theories that highlight systemic factors, such as preventing NATO expansion. Ramani concludes by assessing the invasion’s implications for Russia’s long-term political and foreign policy trajectory, and how the international response to the conflict will reshape the global order.

Author : Margaret Litvin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780691137803

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Hamlet's Arab Journey by Margaret Litvin Pdf

For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike. On the Arab stage, Hamlet has been an operetta hero, a firebrand revolutionary, and a muzzled dissident. Analyzing productions from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait, Litvin follows the distinct phases of Hamlet's naturalization as an Arab. Her fine-grained theatre history uses personal interviews as well as scripts and videos, reviews, and detailed comparisons with French and Russian Hamlets. The result shows Arab theatre in a new light. Litvin identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic Hamlet, shows the outsize influence of Soviet and East European Shakespeare, and explores the deep cultural link between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and the ghost of Hamlet's father. Documenting how global sources and models helped nurture a distinct Arab Hamlet tradition, Hamlet's Arab Journey represents a new approach to the study of international Shakespeare appropriation.