Why Did You Leave The Horse Alone

Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935744689

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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish Pdf

Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul. — Elias Khoury The book tugs at the reader’s heart page after page, poem after poem, line after line, you cannot remain apathetic for a moment… —Haaretz At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to his displaced people and to the rich Arabic language. Darwish’s poems – specific and symbolic, simple and profound – are historical glimpses, existential queries, chants of pain and injustice of a people separated from their land.

Author : Mahmoud Darwish,Mohammad Shaheen
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781780943411

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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish,Mohammad Shaheen Pdf

A stunning new translation of Mahmoud Darwish's intertwining poetic narrative, presenting a profound portrait of the Palestinian people, the human condition, and Darwish's own hopes and dreams Since Mahmoud Darwish's death, his poetic writings continue to be read by an audience in awe. This is a collection of autobiographical poetry designed to give an insight into the wider human condition. Darwish explores the meaning of life, identity, and the impact of exile. Hailed as the most important Arab poet of the modern day, Darwish's voice has come to represent a generation and the Palestinian people in the midst of the tense political situation in the Middle East. While Darwish explored themes of lost Eden, exile, and life after death, he resisted classification as a spokesperson for the Palestinian cause, and refused to use his art for purely political ends. Darwish's was a nomadic existence, much of it spent in international exile, and these experiences lent his writing a cosmopolitan edge—they partake of a worldwide mythology.

Author : Mahmoud Darwish,Muḥammad Ṭāhir Darwīsh
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Arabic poetry
ISBN : 1843915197

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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish,Muḥammad Ṭāhir Darwīsh Pdf

A stunning new translation of Mahmoud Darwish's intertwining poetic narrative, presenting a profound portrait of the Palestinian people, the human condition, and Darwish's own hopes and dreams Since Mahmoud Darwish's death, his poetic writings continue to be read by an audience in awe. This is a collection of autobiographical poetry designed to give an insight into the wider human condition. Darwish explores the meaning of life, identity, and the impact of exile. Hailed as the most important Arab poet of the modern day, Darwish's voice has come to represent a generation and the Palestinian people in the midst of the tense political situation in the Middle East. While Darwish explored themes of lost Eden, exile, and life after death, he resisted classification as a spokesperson for the Palestinian cause, and refused to use his art for purely political ends. Darwish's was a nomadic existence, much of it spent in international exile, and these experiences lent his writing a cosmopolitan edge--they partake of a worldwide mythology.

Author : Meron Benvenisti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520928822

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Sacred Landscape by Meron Benvenisti Pdf

As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti's youth are central to this book, and the story that he tells helps explain how during this century an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. Benvenisti first discusses the process by which new Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs). He then explains how the Arab landscape has been transformed through war, destruction, and expulsion into a flourishing Jewish homeland accommodating millions of immigrants. The resulting encounters between two peoples who claim the same land have raised great moral and political dilemmas, which Benvenisti presents with candor and impartiality. Benvenisti points out that five hundred years after the Moors left Spain there are sufficient landmarks remaining to preserve the outlines of Muslim Spain. Even with sustained modern development, the ancient scale is still visible. Yet a Palestinian returning to his ancestral landscape after only fifty years would have difficulty identifying his home. Furthermore, Benvenisti says, the transformation of Arab cultural assets into Jewish holy sites has engendered a struggle over the "signposts of memory" essential to both peoples. Sacred Landscape raises troublesome questions that most writers on the Middle East avoid. The now-buried Palestinian landscape remains a symbol and a battle standard for Palestinians and Israelis. But it is Benvenisti's continuing belief that Eretz Israel/Palestine has enough historical and physical space for the people of both nations and that it can one day be a shared homeland.

Author : Muna Abu Eid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786730138

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Mahmoud Darwish by Muna Abu Eid Pdf

Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle. His poems resonate across the entire Arab world and, more than any other single figure perhaps since the death of Yasser Arafat, he represents a unifying figurehead for Palestinian national aspirations. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Darwish in English, Muna Abu Eid examines the poet's intellectual status on two fronts - both national and public - and offers a critical assessment of Darwish's national and political life. Based on Darwish's own writings and interviews with people who worked with him and situating Darwish's poetry within the wider context of Palestinian struggles inside Israel, this book explores the influence of Darwish's life and work in the Palestinian territories and in the diaspora: from the destruction of his Galilee village and displacement of his family during the 1948 Nakba; to his return and 'infiltration' back into the homeland and the struggle for survival inside Israel; to his internal and external exiles in Haifa, Moscow, Cairo, Beirut, Tunisia, Paris and even Ramallah.

Author : Hania A.M. Nashef
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351387491

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Palestinian Culture and the Nakba by Hania A.M. Nashef Pdf

The Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile and loss have evolved into cultural symbols that at once help define the person and allow the person to remember the loss. Although accounts of the Palestinians’ experience of the expulsion from the land are similar, the emblems that provoke these particular memories differ. Certain mementos, memories or objects help in commemorating the homeland. This book looks at the icons, narratives and symbols that have become synonymous with Palestinian identity and culture and which have, in the absence of a homeland, become a source of memory. It discusses how these icons have come into being and how they have evolved into sites of power which help to keep the story and identity of the Palestinians alive. The book looks at examples from Palestinian caricature, film, literature, poetry and painting, to see how these works ignite memories of the homeland and help to reinforce the diasporic identity. It also argues that the creators of these narratives or emblems have themselves become cultural icons within the collective Palestinian recollection. By introducing the Nakba as a lived experience, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Middle East Studies, Cultural Studies, Literature and Media Studies.

Author : Garth Lean,Russell Staiff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317006589

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Travel and Transformation by Garth Lean,Russell Staiff Pdf

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these themes. Instead, much of the literature to date has focused upon describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a supply-side perspective, with travellers themselves defined in terms of their motivations and interests. While the tourism field can lay claim to several significant milestone contributions, there have been few recent attempts at a rigorous re-theorization of the issues arising from the travel/transformation nexus. The opportunity to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of transformation through travel has thus far been missed. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives - including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western literature.

Author : Mahmoud Kayyal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004517813

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Conflict, Hegemony and Ideology in the Mutual Translation of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literatures by Mahmoud Kayyal Pdf

Can translations fuel intractable conflicts or contribute to calming them? To what extent do translators belonging to conflicting cultures find themselves committed to their ethnic identity and its narratives? How do translators on the seam line between the two cultures behave? Does colonial supremacy encourage translators to strengthen cultural and linguistic hegemony or rather undermine it? Mahmoud Kayyal tries to answer these questions and others in this book by examining mutual translations in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the hegemony relations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Author : Raheb, Mitri,Henderson, Suzanne Watts
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336944

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The Cross in Contexts by Raheb, Mitri,Henderson, Suzanne Watts Pdf

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253045089

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Israel Denial by Cary Nelson Pdf

A work of “rigorous intellectual inquiry” critiquing the BDS movement in academia (Jewish Journal). Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published—individually and collectively—in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting peace. The faculty discussed here have devoted a significant part of their professional lives to delegitimizing the Jewish state. While there are beliefs they hold in common—including the conviction that there is nothing good to say about Israel—they also develop distinctive arguments designed to recruit converts to their cause in novel ways. They do so both as writers and as teachers; Israel Denial is the first to give substantial attention to anti-Zionist pedagogy. No effort to understand the BDS movement’s impact on the academy and public policy can be complete without the kind of understanding this book offers. A co-publication of the Academic Engagement Network

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : NYPL:33433007290053

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Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131761060

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The New Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1514 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119247190

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Votes & Proceedings by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council Pdf

Author : Tahrir Hamdi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755617845

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Imagining Palestine by Tahrir Hamdi Pdf

All national identities are somewhat fluid, held together by collective beliefs and practices as much as official territory and borders. In the context of the Palestinians, whose national status in so many instances remains unresolved, the articulation and 'imagination' of national identity is particularly urgent. This book explores the ways that Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists and ordinary citizens 'imagine' their homeland, examining the works of key Palestinian thinkers and writers such as Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Ghassan Kanafani and Naji Al Ali. Deploying Benedict Anderson's notion of 'Imagined Communities' and Edward Soja's theory of 'Third Space', Tahrir Hamdi argues that the imaginative construction of Palestine is a key element in the Palestinians' ongoing struggle. An interdisciplinary work drawing upon critical theory, postcolonial studies and literary analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Palestine and Middle East studies and Arabic literature

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : IND:30000125149090

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Banipal by Anonim Pdf