The Literary Life Of Cairo

Author : Samia Mehrez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789774163906

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The Literary Life of Cairo by Samia Mehrez Pdf

Readings from literary works that re-construct a century of Cairo's changing social life. Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city. The seven chapters first introduce the reader to representations of some of Cairo's prominent profiles, both political and cultural, and their impact on the city's literary geography, before presenting a spectrum of readings of the city by its multiethnic, multinational, and multilingual writers across class, gender, and generation. Daunting images of colonial school experiences and startling contrasts of postcolonial educational realities are revealed, while Cairo's moments of political participation and oppression are illustrated, as well as the space accorded to women within the city across history and class. The city's marginals are placed on its literary map, alongside representations of the relationship between writing and drugs, and the places, paraphernalia, and products of the drug world across class and time. Together, The Literary Atlas of Cairo and The Literary Life of Cairo produce a literary geography of Cairo that goes beyond the representation of space in literature to reconstruct the complex network of human relationships in that space.

Author : Ahmed Naji,Hassan Abdel Mawgoud,Eman Abdelrahim,Nael Eltoukhy,Areej Gamal,Hatem Hafez,Hend Ja'far,Nahla Karam,Mohamed Kheir,Mohamed Salah al-Azab
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781912697175

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The Book of Cairo by Ahmed Naji,Hassan Abdel Mawgoud,Eman Abdelrahim,Nael Eltoukhy,Areej Gamal,Hatem Hafez,Hend Ja'far,Nahla Karam,Mohamed Kheir,Mohamed Salah al-Azab Pdf

A corrupt police officer trawls the streets of Cairo on the most important assignment of his career: the answer to the truth of all existence… A young journalist struggles over the obituary of a nightclub dancer… A man slowly loses his mind in one of the city’s new desert developments... There is a saying that, whoever you are, if you come to Cairo you will find a hundred people just like you. For over a thousand years, the city on the banks of the Nile has welcomed travellers from around the world. But in recent years Cairo has also been a stage for expressions of short-lived hope, political disappointments and a violent repression that can barely be written about. These ten short stories showcase some of the most exciting, emerging voices in Egypt, guiding us through one of the world’s largest and most historic cities as it is today – from its slums to its villas, its bars and its balconies, through its infamous traffic. Appearing in English for the first time, these stories evoke the sadness and loss of the modern city, as well as its humour and beauty. Translated by Adam Talib, Raphael Cohen, Basma Ghalayini, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Raph Cormack, Andrew Leber, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Elisabeth Jaquette, Kareem James Abu-Zeid & Yasmine Seale. One of World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2019. '[The Book of Cairo] has no need for camels or pyramids or an exaggeration of whatever the Western eye is looking for. Reading it feels like sitting in a cafe in Cairo with young literary men and women, listening to their stories that dig deep into what Cairo is and is not.' - Asymptote Journal 'Though each story in The Book of Cairo is unique – ten stories by ten writers, translated by ten translators – they feed into one another artfully, like a movie soundtrack, a concept album, or a full novel. The cogs of Cairo turn through this book, and they move faster and more erratically as the pages turn – just as life in Cairo itself does.' - Books and Bao

Author : Maxime Du Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924088383173

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Recollections of a Literary Life by Maxime Du Camp Pdf

Author : Richard Robert Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300018459

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The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington by Richard Robert Madden Pdf

Author : Samia Mehrez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9774167864

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The Literary Atlas of Cairo by Samia Mehrez Pdf

Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city. The seven chapters first introduce the reader to representations of some of Cairo's prominent profiles, both political and cultural, and their impact on the city's literary geography, before presenting a spectrum of readings of the city by its multiethnic, multinational, and multilingual writers across class, gender, and generation. Daunting images of colonial school experiences and startling contrasts of postcolonial educational realities are revealed, while Cairo's moments of political participation and oppression are illustrated, as well as the space accorded to women within the city across history and class. The city's marginals are placed on its literary map, alongside representations of the relationship between writing and drugs, and the places, paraphernalia, and products of the drug world across class and time.

Author : Nadia Wassef
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374600198

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Shelf Life by Nadia Wassef Pdf

“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef’s Egyptian bookstore—the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failure and success are often lovers, the relationship between neighborhoods and books and life. Nadia’s story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found solace in the aisles of a bookstore.” —Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here “Shelf Life is such a unique memoir about career, life, love, friendship, motherhood, and the impossibility of succeeding at all of them at the same time. It is the story of Diwan, the first modern bookstore in Cairo, which was opened by three women, one of whom penned this book. As a bookstore owner I found this fascinating. As a reader I found it fascinating. Blunt, honest, funny.” —Jenny Lawson, author of Broken (in the best possible way) The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef’s troubles and triumphs as a founder and manager of Cairo-based Diwan The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her sister, Hind, and their friend, Nihal, she founded Diwan, a fiercely independent bookstore. They were three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose. At the time, nothing like Diwan existed in Egypt. Culture was languishing under government mismanagement, and books were considered a luxury, not a necessity. Ten years later, Diwan had become a rousing success, with ten locations, 150 employees, and a fervent fan base. Frank, fresh, and very funny, Nadia Wassef’s memoir tells the story of this journey. Its eclectic cast of characters features Diwan’s impassioned regulars, like the demanding Dr. Medhat; Samir, the driver with CEO aspirations; meditative and mythical Nihal; silent but deadly Hind; dictatorial and exacting Nadia, a self-proclaimed bitch to work with—and the many people, mostly men, who said Diwan would never work. Shelf Life is a portrait of a country hurtling toward revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an unapologetic crash course in running a business under the law of entropy. Above all, it is a celebration of the power of words to bring us home.

Author : Reuven Snir
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474420525

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Modern Arabic Literature by Reuven Snir Pdf

The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Based on the achievements of historical poetics, in particular those of Russian formalism and its theoretical legacy, this framework offers flexible, transparent, and unbiased tools to understand the relevant contexts within the literary system. The aim is to enhance our understanding of Arabic literature, throw light on areas of literary production that traditionally have been neglected, and stimulate others to take up the fascinating challenge of mapping out and exploring them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNDON000960723

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The Literary Life and Corrispondence of the Countess of Blessington R. R. Madden by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ato Quayson,Jini Kim Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316517888

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The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature by Ato Quayson,Jini Kim Watson Pdf

This book addresses the way cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions that are central to debates in World Literature.

Author : Doma Mahmoud
Publisher : Unnamed Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 195121336X

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Cairo Circles by Doma Mahmoud Pdf

An epic, multi-perspective debut novel bringing the streets of Cairo to life

Author : Ramadan Yasmine Ramadan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474427678

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Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction by Ramadan Yasmine Ramadan Pdf

In 1960s Egypt a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape. Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction explores how this literary generation presents a marked shift in the representation of rural, urban and exilic space, reflecting a disappointment with the project of the postcolonial nation-state in Egypt. Combining a sociological approach to literature with detailed close readings, Yasmine Ramadan explores the spatial representations that embodied this shift within the Egyptian literary scene and the disappearance of an idealized nation in the Egyptian novel. This study provides a robust examination of the emergence and establishment of some of the most significant writers in modern Egyptian literature, and their influence across six decades, while also tracing the social, economic, political and aesthetic changes that marked this period in Egypt's contemporary history.

Author : Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429855917

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Temporary Cities by Yasser Elsheshtawy Pdf

Are Arab Gulf cities, the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha, on their way to extinction? Is their fate obsolescence? Or, are they the model for our urban future? Can a city whose very existence is predicated on an imported labour force who build and operate these gleaming urban centres remain a viable urban entity? Could the transient nature of this urban model, its temporariness and precariousness, also be its doom? In this wide-ranging book Yasser Elsheshtawy takes on these tough, but necessary, questions aiming to examine the very nature of the Arab Gulf city and whether it can sustain its existence throughout the twenty-first century. Having lived in the region for more than two decades he researched its marginalized and forgotten urban settings, trying to understand how a temporary people can live in a place that inherently refuses to give them the possibility of becoming citizens. By being embedded in these spaces and reconciling their presence with his own personal encounters with transience, he discovered a resilience and defiance against the forces of the hegemonic city. Using subtle acts of resistance, these temporary inhabitants have found a way to sustain and create a home, to set down roots in the midst of a fast changing and transient urbanity. Their stories, recounted in this book through case studies and in-depth analysis, give hope to cities everywhere. Transience is not a fait accompli: rather the actions of citizens, residents and migrants – even in the highly restrictive spaces of the Gulf – show us that the future metropolis may very well not turn out to be a ‘utopia of the few and a dystopia of the many’. This could be an illusion, but it is a necessary illusion because the alternative is irrelevance.

Author : Alev Cinar,Srirupa Roy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472071180

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Visualizing Secularism and Religion by Alev Cinar,Srirupa Roy Pdf

An investigation of the role of religion in the formation of secular-national public spheres in the Middle East and South Asia

Author : Tiran Manucharyan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003855118

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Of Kings and Clowns by Tiran Manucharyan Pdf

This book examines the transformations Egyptian theatre has undergone since 1967. Through detailed analyses of the plays, the book investigates the ways Egyptian theatre represents, formulates, and imagines political and cultural leadership and, by implication, enacts its own leadership. Alongside the work of established playwrights, such as Yusuf Idris, Abul-ʿEla El-Salamouny, Fathia El-ʿAssal and Lenin El-Ramly, it also discusses the input in theatre of a younger generation, reflecting the new transformations in Egyptian theatre following the 2011 revolution. Relating the theoretical underpinnings of its analyses to theoretical discussions by Egyptian playwrights, the book contributes to current English-language scholarship in theatre studies, by providing a discourse largely absent from it. Considering the growing sense in English-language academia on the need for research and education beyond the Western canon this book offers an important addition to the study resources. This book will interest both scholars and students who study the Arab world, and researchers and students with an interest in cultural studies, more specifically twentieth- and twenty-first-century theatre, and literature studies. The book’s specific focus on political theatre and its gender perspective make it also of interest to the fields of political and gender studies.

Author : Juan Carlos Suárez Villegas,Rosario Lacalle Zalduendo,l (ed.) Pérez Tornero, (ed.) José Manuel
Publisher : Editorial Dykinson, S.L.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788490850299

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II International Conference Gender and Communication. Conference Proceeding by Juan Carlos Suárez Villegas,Rosario Lacalle Zalduendo,l (ed.) Pérez Tornero, (ed.) José Manuel Pdf