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  • Memory for Forgetfulnessby Mahmoud Darwish; Sinan Antoon; Ibrahim Muhawi

    University of California Press 2013; US$ 26.95

    One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). ... more...

  • An Introduction to Arab Poeticsby Adonis

    Saqi 2013; US$ 8.74

    Poetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book, one of the foremost Arab poets reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry, as well as the relationship between Arabic poetry and the Qur?an, and between poetry and thought. Adonis also assesses the challenges of modernism and the... more...

  • Unfortunately, It Was Paradiseby Mahmoud Darwish; Sinan Antoon; Amira El-Zein; Fady Joudah; Munir Akash

    University of California Press 2013; US$ 29.95

    Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary traditions while simultaneously struggling to open... more...

  • Making the Great Book of Songsby Hilary Kilpatrick

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî ( The Book of Songs ) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature... more...

  • Literary History Of The Arabsby Nicholson

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 178.00

    The Arabs during a thousand years or more produced one of the richest and most extensive literatures of the world, embracing fine poetry (of the fierce desert life equally with the sophistication of royal courts), belles lettres (learned essays, satires, de arte amoris), religious, mystical and philosophical writings, and huge compendia of history,... more...

  • Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetryby Julie Meisami

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this rich poetic traditions exhibits both continuity and... more...

  • Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Centuryby Boutheina Khaldi

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    This is the first book  to deal with the role of Arab women's literary salons, specifically May Ziada's, in the Nahdah (Awakening) of Egypt, by applying current comparative theories from history, literature, political science, and media studies. more...

  • Classical Arabic Literatureby Geert Jan van Gelder

    Library of Arabic Literature 2012; US$ 79.00

    A major achievement in the field of translation, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Like many pre-modern Arabic anthologies it... more...

  • Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspectiveby Anna Ball

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00

    Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners including Michel Khleifi , Liana Badr, Annemarie... more...

  • Moorish Poetryby A.J. Arberry

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95

    Seven hundred and fifty years ago, this anthology of small masterpieces of renowned Moorish poets from Muslim Spain, North Africa and Sicily was compiled by Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi, a native of Southern Spain. The text has been translated into rhymed English verses with an Introduction explaining the conventions of Arabic literature within which these... more...