Middle Eastern

In From Schlemiel to Sabra Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the New Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state. In this innovative book, Hollander uncovers the complex relationship that Jews had with masculinity, interrogating...

Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually...

Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a...

The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis'adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics since the last war. This fascinating book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and...

This is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early 20th century to present, Phillips provides a thematic exploration of the push and pull between religion and...

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial,...

This volume of essays is the first to be dedicated to the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, it brings together essays on a range of writers from all parts of the Arab...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283292Author Ahmad Karimi-HakkakFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

" . . . a critical edition based on the three known manuscripts, and translation of a gnomologium entitled Mukhtar min kalam al-hukama' al-arba`a, which contains sayings ascribed to Pythgagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Parallel versions from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196041380Author Ajit KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805201086Author Joel BlockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 343gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany, through Muscovy, to the court of Shah Safi in Isfahan. Adam Olearius introduced Persian literature, history and arts to the...

Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and...

On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Persianate world from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume discuss travel...

Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan-popular novels, short stories, television serials-is formed...

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...

Investigates how Arab novelists have represented the experiences of migrants in the Gulf States.

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Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards.

This book of autobiographical, autoethnographic illness narratives tackles the intersection between cultural and medical illnesses in present-day Lebanon, in relation to topical issues such as queer home, coming of age, dementia, expatriate trauma, and...

Explores various aspects of Arabic literature of migration published over the past three decades, focusing on the aesthetic development of literary production bearing on exile and migration and the critical debates concerning its denomination.

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels

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This book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature in English as a case study. It aims to show how readers actively engage with witness literature, serving both as witnesses to the...

Examines the work and reception of the Arab émigré writer Gibran Khalil Gibran.

This book moves the field of study of Arab women's writing on from the Anglophone preoccupation with the "bravery" that it takes to put pen to paper, and instead focuses on what the pen actually does. This book shows that Arab women writers innovate and...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.The Well-Tempered Reader provides a new understanding of the term adab, a ubiquitous...

This Edinburgh Companion seeks to develop a postcolonial framework for addressing the Middle East. The first collection of essays on this subject, it assembles some of the world's foremost postcolonialists to explore the critical, theoretical and...

Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger project by Elmeligi to formulate a poetics of literary theory to read Arabic literature, this book examines...

Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature's rich tradition, taking various forms from the coarse and obscene to the subtle and refined.Humour in Iran is a close and comprehensive study of satire and humour - in verse as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032303994Author Martina CensiImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

The monograph studies the Arab mahjari (emigre) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature beyond biographical and culturalist approaches. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to unveil...

Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic...

Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book,...