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  • Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration

    New Poetics and Perspectives

    Edited by Annamaria Bianco, Baian Rayhanova, Simone Sibilio ...
    **The volume provides a fresh look at contemporary Arabic literature on the experiences of migration, forced displacement and exile, with a particular focus on the period from the First Gulf War to the present.**It traces thematic fusions, genre and stylistic innovations in literary works by and about migrants, refugees and other displaced persons, and covers a wide geographical area, representing ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • Nakba

    Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

    Edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Ahmad Sa'di ...
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    For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past.By focusing on memories of the Nakba or "catastrophe" of 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were ... Read more

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  • In the Wake of the Poetic

    Palestinian Artists After Darwish

    by Najat Rahman ...
    Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to Palestinian writers of his generation. Rahman maps the immense ... Read more

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  • Among the Jasmine Trees

    Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria

    by Jonathan Holt Shannon ...
    How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of heritage and authenticity? In Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, Jonathan H. Shannon investigates expressions of authenticity in Syria's musical culture, which is particularly known for embracing and preserving the Arab musical tradition, and which has seldom been researched in ... Read more

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  • Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

    The Politics of the Turkish Novel

    by Erdag Göknar ...
    Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work.In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After decades of criticism for wielding a depoliticized pen, Pamuk was cast as a dissident through his trial, ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

    Essays by Hamid Dabashi

    Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan ...
    "Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching ... Read more

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  • Popular Egyptian Cinema

    Gender, Class, and Nation

    by Viola Shafik ...
    In this groundbreaking work, film scholar Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world. Turning a critical eye on a major player in Egyptian cultural life, Shafik examines these films against the backdrop of the country's overall socio-political development, from the ... Read more

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  • The Arabic Freud

    Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

    by Omnia El Shakry ...
    The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought.In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn 'Arabi— al-la-shu'ur—as a translation for Sigmund Freud's concept of the unconscious. By the late 1950s, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams had ... Read more

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  • Europe and Its Shadows

    Coloniality after Empire

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe to be a historically formed barricade against the world.Frantz Fanon’s assessment that 'Europe is literally the creation of the Third ... Read more

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  • The World of Persian Literary Humanism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. ... Read more

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