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The Mahfouz Dialogs

Jamāl Ghīṭānī

Author : Jamāl Ghīṭānī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9774161270

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The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century. Mahfouz was a pivotal figure not only in world literature (through being awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988 he became the first writer in Arabic to win a mass audience), but also in his own society, where he vastly enhanced the image of the writer in the eyes of the public and encapsulated--as the victim of a savage attack on his life by an Islamist in 1994--the struggle between pluralism, tolerance, and secularism on the one hand and extremist Islam. Moderated by Gamal al-Ghitani, a writer of a younger generation who shared a common background with Mahfouz (al-Ghitani also grew up in medieval Cairo) and felt a vast personal empathy for the writer despite their sometimes different views, these exchanges throw new light on Mahfouz's life, the creation of his novels, and literary Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century.

The Modernization Process of Egypt and Turkey in Selected Novels of Naguip Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk

Özlem Ulucan

Author : Özlem Ulucan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527526839

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The Modernization Process of Egypt and Turkey in Selected Novels of Naguip Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk by Özlem Ulucan Pdf

This study discusses the modernization process of Egypt and Turkey from the beginning of the 20th century through The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz and Cevdet Bey and Sons by Orhan Pamuk. These works of two Nobel Prize winning authors project the stories of three generations, reflecting the historical, social and cultural transformations Egypt and Turkey went through. In their generational novels, both, Mahfouz and Pamuk portray extended families that have close relationships which fade through time as each new generation moves away from the traditional lifestyles and tries to adopt a new way of life under the influences of the social and economic conditions of their countries. This book analyses the way each succeeding generation operates in the process of transition from conservatism to modernity in Egypt and Turkey by contextualizing book texts and shedding light on the modernization experiences of these two countries.

The Essential Naguib Mahfouz

Anonim

Author : Anonim
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617972072

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The Essential Naguib Mahfouz by Anonim Pdf

A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate. Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of a world classic, and the Swedish Academy of Letters in awarding him the 1988 Nobel prize for literature noted that Mahfouz "through works rich in nuance-now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous-has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind." Here Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," and the first to translate Naguib Mahfouz into English, makes an essential selection of short stories and extracts from novels and other writings, to present a cross-section through time of the very best of the work of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

Author : Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 2220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783110279818

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Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Pdf

Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.

The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967)

Nathaniel Greenberg

Author : Nathaniel Greenberg
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739183700

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The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967) by Nathaniel Greenberg Pdf

In the wake of the 1952 Revolution, Egypt’s future Nobel laureate in literature devoted himself exclusively to writing for film. The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz is the first full-length study in English to examine this critical period in the author’s career and to contextualize it within the scope of post-revolutionary Egyptian politics and culture. Before returning to literature in 1959 with his post-revolutionary masterpiece Children of the Alley, Mahfouz wrote or co-wrote some twenty odd scripts, many of them among the most successful in Egyptian history. He did so at a time when film was the country’s second largest export commodity after cotton and the domestic film industry in Egypt the fourth largest in the world. Artistically, his screenplays channeled the ideology of the revolution, often raising themes of oppression and liberation, and almost always within a storyline of criminal transgression. But as he discussed in later articles and interviews, the capacity for film to enumerate the flow of life—through montage, jump cuts, lighting, and close ups—helped him to develop a darker, faster, and more complex vision of society. This technological revolution was followed by a literary one in the 1960s, a time when Mahfouz would generate through a series of short, trenchant, and often comedic novellas, a deeply measured meditation on the experience of collective upheaval and the interpersonal impact of political transformation.

The Story of the Banned Book

Mohamed Shoair

Author : Mohamed Shoair
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649032249

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The Story of the Banned Book by Mohamed Shoair Pdf

An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight since it was first published in Egypt in 1959. It has been at times banned and at others allowed, sold sometimes under the counter and sometimes openly on the street, often pirated and only recently legally reprinted. It has inspired anxiety among the secular authorities, rage within the religious right, and a drawing of battle lines among Arab intellectuals and writers. It dogged Mahfouz like a curse throughout the remainder of his career, led to his attempted assassination, and sparked a public debate that continues to this day, even after the author’s death in 2006. It is Egypt’s iconic novel, in whose mirror millions have seen themselves, their society, and even the universe, some finding truth, others blasphemy. In this award-winning account, Mohamed Shoair traces the story of Mahfouz’s novel as a cultural and political object, from its first publication to the present via Mahfouz’s award of the Nobel prize for literature in 1988 and the attempt on his life in 1994. He presents the arguments that swirled about the novel and the wide cast of Egyptian figures, from state actors to secular intellectuals and Islamists, who took part in them. He also contextualizes the interactions among the principal characters, interactions that have done much to shape the country’s present. Extensively researched and written in a lucid, accessible style, The Story of the Banned Book is both a gripping work of investigative journalism and a window onto some of the fiercest debates around culture and religion to have taken place in Egyptian society over the past half-century.

Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction

Ramadan Yasmine Ramadan

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.

Egypt 1919

Dina Heshmat

Author : Dina Heshmat
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474458382

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Egypt 1919 by Dina Heshmat Pdf

The first book offering an extensive analysis of literary and cinematic narratives dealing with the 1919 anti-colonial revolution in Egypt.

Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Ziad Elmarsafy

Author : Ziad Elmarsafy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748655663

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Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel by Ziad Elmarsafy Pdf

This book will present close readings of three contemporary Arabic novelists - an Egyptian (Gamal Al-Ghitany), an Algerian (Taher Ouettar) and a Touareg Libyan (Ibrahim Al-Koni) - who have all turned to Sufism as a literary strategy aimed at negotiating i

Cairo’s Street Stories

Lesley Lababidi

Author : Lesley Lababidi
Publisher : I.B.Tauris
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617972744

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Cairo’s Street Stories by Lesley Lababidi Pdf

In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the determination of sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar that such public art gained general acceptance, and today statues stand, ride, or sit in the streets, squares, and gardens of Cairo. Each sculpture adds a piece to the jigsaw of history spanning personalities and events that shaped the city and wider Egypt from 1805 to 1970, and here Cairo-based author Lesley Lababidi provides a unique perspective on Egyptian history through looking at more than thirty statues and monumental sculptures and the stories behind them. Between statues, she explores Cairo’s growth and its multidimensional identity, as manifested in the development and changing use of city space over the centuries, and examines the relationship of Cairo’s modern denizens with the landscapes, districts, palaces, archaeological sites, cafés, bridges, and gardens of their great and maddening city, the Mother of the World. Illustrated throughout with color photographs and archival pictures, Cairo’s Street Stories presents a unique and lively view of the history that fashioned the city’s streets and open spaces, and of the many and often unexpected uses to which its inventive inhabitants put them.

Soccer in the Middle East

Alon Raab,Issam Khalidi

Author : Alon Raab,Issam Khalidi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317605348

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Soccer in the Middle East by Alon Raab,Issam Khalidi Pdf

Soccer is a vital part of the Middle East’s cultural and political fabric, most recently demonstrated by the way the recent successes of the Iraqi national team suggested possibilities of unity and solidarity. This edited collection explores the multifaceted connections between soccer and society in the Middle East. It examines the broader social significance of soccer and its importance to individual lives, how the game acts as a source of both conflict and unity and how it relates to religious belief. The chapters in this volume include an analysis of the role of ‘African’ identity in the Egyptian and Moroccan bids to host the 2010 World Cup, the relationship between FIFA and Palestinian statehood and a case-study examination of the UltrAslan, an organisation of Galatasaray fans, that challenges Turkish fandom’s violent and nationalistic reputation. The themes of this book are also addressed through the perspective of individual accounts and literary selections. This collection offers a crucial insight into the hope that soccer can provide, how it captures the imagination and embodies the values and dreams of its followers in the complex, dynamic and politically fraught societies of the Middle East. This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

The Zafarani Files

غيطاني، جمال,Jamāl Ghīṭānī

Author : غيطاني، جمال,Jamāl Ghīṭānī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9774161904

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The Zafarani Files by غيطاني، جمال,Jamāl Ghīṭānī Pdf

An unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo's old city, making notes. The college graduate, the street vendors, the political prisoner, the caf owner, the taxi driver, the beautiful green-eyed young wife with the troll of a husband all are subjects of surveillance. The watcher's reports flow seamlessly into a narrative about Zafarani Alley, a village tucked into a corner of the city, where intrigue is the main entertainment, and everyone has a secret. Suspicion, superstition, and a wicked humor prevail in this darkly comedic novel. Drawing upon the experience of his own childhood growing up in al-Hussein, where the fictional Zafarani Alley is located, Gamal al-Ghitani has created a world richly populated with characters and situations that possess authenticity behind their veils of satire.

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

John Calvert

Author : John Calvert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199365388

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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert Pdf

Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has conflated Qutb's moral purpose with the aims of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. He is often portrayed as a terrorist, Islamo-Fascist, and advocate of murder. This book rescues Qutb from misrepresentation, tracing the evolution of his thought within the context of his time. An expert on social protest and political resistance in the modern Middle East, as well as Egyptian nationalism, John Calvert recounts Qutb's life from the small village in which he was raised to his execution at the behest of Abd al-Nasser's regime. His study remains sensitive to the cultural, political, social, and economic circumstances that shaped Qutb's thought-major developments that composed one of the most eventful periods in Egyptian history. These years witnessed the full flush of Britain's tutelary regime, the advent of Egyptian nationalism, and the political hegemony of the Free Officers. Qutb rubbed shoulders with Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Abd al-Nasser himself, though his Islamism originally had little to do with religion. Only in response to his harrowing experience in prison did Qutb come to regard Islam and kufr (infidelity) as oppositional, antithetical, and therefore mutually exclusive. Calvert shows how Qutb repackaged and reformulated the Islamic heritage to pose a challenge to authority, including those who claimed (falsely, he believed) to be Muslim.

Arabic Dialogues

Rachel Mairs

Author : Rachel Mairs
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800086180

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During the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, more Europeans visited the Middle East than ever before, as tourists, archaeologists, pilgrims, settler-colonists and soldiers. These visitors engaged with the Arabic language to differing degrees. While some were serious scholars of Classical Arabic, in the Orientalist mould, many did not learn the language at all. Between these two extremes lies a neglected group of language learners who wanted to learn enough everyday colloquial Arabic to get by. The needs of these learners were met by popular language books, which boasted that they could provide an easy route to fluency in a difficult language. Arabic Dialogues explores the motivations of Arabic learners and effectiveness of instructional materials, principally in Egypt and Palestine, by analysing a corpus of Arabic phrasebooks published in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian) and in the territory of twenty-five modern countries. Beginning with Napoleon’s Expédition d’Égypte (1798–1801), it moves through the periods of mass tourism and European colonialism in the Middle East, concluding with the Second World War. The book also considers how Arab intellectuals understood the project of teaching Arabic to foreigners, the remarkable history of Arabic-learning among Yiddish- and Hebrew-speaking immigrants in Palestine, and the networks of language learners, teachers and plagiarists who produced these phrasebooks.

Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America

Axel Gasquet,Gorica Majstorovic

Author : Axel Gasquet,Gorica Majstorovic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030525712

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Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America by Axel Gasquet,Gorica Majstorovic Pdf

This book brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars on the history of cultural and literary interactions between Asia and Latin America. Through a number of interlinked case studies, contributors examine how different forms of Asia-Latin America dialogues are embedded in various national and local contexts. The volume is divided in four parts: 1) Asian hybrid identities and Latin American transnational narratives; 2) translations and reception of Latin American narratives in Asia; 3) diffracted worlds of Nikkei identities; and 4) interweaving of Asian and Latin American narratives and travel chronicles. Through the lens of modern globality and Transpacific Studies, the contributions inaugurate a perspective that has, until recently, been neglected by Asian and Latin American cultural studies, while offering an incisive theoretical discussion and detailed textual analysis.

The Mahfouz Dialogs

The Mahfouz Dialogs by Jamāl Ghīṭānī Pdf

The Modernization Process of Egypt and Turkey in Selected Novels of Naguip Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk by Özlem Ulucan Pdf

The Essential Naguib Mahfouz by Anonim Pdf

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Pdf

The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967) by Nathaniel Greenberg Pdf

The Story of the Banned Book by Mohamed Shoair Pdf

Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction by Ramadan Yasmine Ramadan Pdf

Egypt 1919 by Dina Heshmat Pdf

Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel by Ziad Elmarsafy Pdf

Cairo’s Street Stories by Lesley Lababidi Pdf

Soccer in the Middle East by Alon Raab,Issam Khalidi Pdf

The Zafarani Files by غيطاني، جمال,Jamāl Ghīṭānī Pdf

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert Pdf

Arabic Dialogues by Rachel Mairs Pdf

Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America by Axel Gasquet,Gorica Majstorovic Pdf

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