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Atlantis
Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 35.00First described by the Greek philosopher Plato in the year 360 bce, Atlantis was a naval power located at the Pillars of Hercules (today's Strait of Gibraltar) that had successfully conquered large swaths of Western Europe. After its defeat, Atlantis then sunk into the sea, never to be seen or heard from again. For centuries, this tale of Atlantis... more...
A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 40.00A critical survey of the development and achievements of Arabic poetry over the last 150 years. more...
Die Anfänge des grönländischen Romans
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 21.56Hauptbeschreibung Grönland Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein koloniales und von Machtasymmetrien geprägtes Land. Zeitgleich mit den ersten Ausbildungsreisen junger Grönländer nach Dänemark kann sich in der bis nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg abgeriegelten dänischen Kolonie eine eigene Romanliteratur herausbilden. Ebbe Volquardsen begibt sich auf die Spur... more...
In the Presence of Absence
Archipelago Books 2011; US$ 16.00From the incomparable, award-winning Mahmoud Darwish: a stunning book of prose poetry that recalls the Palestine of his youth. more...
Plague Lands and Other Poems
Carcanet 2011; US$ 18.89Born in Baghdad in 1945, now living in London, Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. In the first collection of his poetry to appear in English, his long sequence ?Plague Lands? is an elegy for the life of a lost city, a chronicle of a journey into exile, haunted by the deep history of an ancient... more...
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
Saqi 2012; US$ 10.19Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture... more...
The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi
Saqi 2012; US$ 11.65Nawal El Saadawi?s most recent play, God Resigns at the Summit Meeting, created an uproar in her native Egypt. On the basis of the title alone, officials declared the work heretical and charged El Saadawi with insulting the ?Almighty God?, not just Islam. Her prosecutors requested that all her books be destroyed, that she be arrested on return to... more...
A Brief Introduction to The Arabic Alphabet
Saqi 2012; US$ 10.19The Arabic alphabet has a rich history, one that is closely linked with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. In this comprehensive introduction the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, which also gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. Using detailed illustrations the authors investigate early... more...
Arabic Language and Linguistics
Georgetown University Press 2012; US$ 44.95Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological,... more...
Arabic Today
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 160.00A student, business and professional course in spoken and written Arabic aimed at those with no prior knowledge of the language.Suitable for business professionals and students wanting to communicate directly with people and institutions in the Arab world, Arabic Today is a self-contained course in contemporary Arabic.Tuition tends to concentrate either... more...









