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41) State of Denial
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Odette is a young Rwandan-born Canadian filmmaker who has travelled to Turkey to investigate stories of genocide and hidden identity for an upcoming film. When she interviews Sahana, an elderly Muslim woman who has spent her life assisting survivors of the Armenian genocide, she learns a devastating secret about Sahana, one that she resolves to share with the world at any cost, even if it means revealing her own shocking secret.
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Trois générations de femmes : Téta, la grand-mère, Fadwa, la mère, et Emné, la fille qui dit la tendresse de celles qui l'ont précédée. Les poèmes recousent les liens brisés par la guerre, la mort et l'exil.
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Je suis fille de la fille
c'est à moi de consoler
à moi de porter
les fleurs
les horizons
mon doigt indique les premiers nuages
rentrons à la maison Téta
nous reviendrons demain
enceintes d'un jour nouveau
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Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity-which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation-this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy. In dialogue with affect...
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The first-ever issue of “ArabLit Quarterly” brings together short stories and poetry by exciting Arabic-language writers translated into English such as South Sudanese writer Stella Gaitano, Syrian short-story writer Zakariya Tamer, Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh (translated into English, French, and Dutch), Lebanese poet Wadie Saadeh, Egyptian writer Muhammad Abdelnabi, Saudi writer Raja Alem, and others. Also: An open letter from novelist Sofia...
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Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject. Robert Irwin has selected a wide range of Arabic poetry and prose in translation, from the most important and typical texts to the very obscure. Alongside the extracts, Irwin's copious commentary and notes provide an explanatory history of Arabic...
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This issue of “ArabLit Quarterly” features work that is STRANGE, unsettling, dis-quieting, and extraordinary.
We have poetry by both acclaimed and younger writers, such as Salim Barakat, Abdallah Zrika, Fouad M. Fouad, Fadwa Suleiman, Abd al-Latif Khattab, and Nada Menzalji. You'll find short stories by Caine Prize-winning Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadhil, Almultaqa Prize-winning Iraqi author Diaa Jubaili, University of Arkansas Arabic Translation...
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Today's global treachery doesn't require modern weaponry to spread horror and death, Sinister actors find old reliable methods to kill anew. All beneath a seemingly unremarkable surface of geopolitical life while placing our world is in peril. A released felon is coerced by the CIA to find and expose an illegal drug and bio-terrorist operation in the remote Hindu Kush in turn for the U.S. Government wiping clean his police record. International players...
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Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah brings to life an ancient story after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone fired his imagination. His epic poem awakens two lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina, the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrian' s Wall for eighteen centuries and tells their tale.
49) Firm Denial
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Firm Denial, a follow-up to Firm Resolve, is a stand-alone novella.When a case becomes an obsession, Daniel Petersen leaves Shanghai and hunts down Aaron Walker. The Iraq vet reveals a story that differs significantly from Lana Hayaak's diary entries. Meanwhile, an enigmatic sighting arouses suspicion and threatens national security.
50) Catch A Liar
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After a chance meeting between a European DJ and an elite Arabic businessman at an airport, the narrative unfolds as we discover that all is not what it seems... The story transpires in the luxurious Arabian backdrop of Dubai. In the superficial, dazzling gold leafed, wealthy world of Dubai. The story challenges stereotypes of Arabic culture along with themes of the collision of opposite worlds, mistrust, mystery and curiosity.
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An all-new illustrated poetry collection from the bestselling author of yesterday i was the moon, New Names for Lost Things combines Noor Unnahar's powerful poetic voice and her signature collage-style visual art for a book of highly personal reflections on loss, inheritance, and what is left behind on the nonlinear path to becoming who you are meant to be.
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In a detailed sequel to Marius Deeb's authoritative Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process, he demonstrates how the coalition of Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah has used assassination, terrorism, and force against the peaceful and liberal democratic Cedar Revolution, trying to undermine its success in pushing the Syrian Army out of Lebanon and in winning the parliamentary elections of 2005 and 2009.
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The memoirs of Patience Moberly, wife to the British ambassador to Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
The ambassador's wife knows everything, hears secrets, witnesses duplicity, but is not allowed to express a political opinion. Now, in her nineties, she expresses her views plainly: the Iraq War was unnecessary and the plight of the Palestinians is appalling.
John and Patience Moberly were responsible for starting and training the first intensive Care Unit...
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El viaje a Oriente es el descubrimiento de lo desconocido, repleto de misterio, que se presenta sensual, excitante, cargado de promesas, pero poco fiable, hostil, feroz y cruel
El viaje a Oriente tiene su esplendor desde finales del siglo xviii, con las campañas napoleónicas, hasta finales del siglo xix, con la caída del imperio Otomano y la apertura del canal de Suez. Este libro analiza los distintos viajeros que dejaron su impronta, ya fuera...
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Camille Pecastaing looks at the twenty-first-century challenges facing the region around the Bab-el-Mandeb (the tiny strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean) from civil war, piracy, radical Islamism, terrorism, and the real risk of environmental and economic failure on both sides of the strait. The author takes us with him into Somalia and Yemen, Eritrea and Djibouti, with excursions into Ethiopia and the Sudan, as he reveals how the...
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When the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, no one envisioned mass atrocities on the scale we are witnessing today. No one foresaw the displacement of millions that would dramatically reshape regional demographics. No one imagined that children would become the victims of chemical weapons, or that the Mediterranean Sea would become their graveyard. Today, more than half of the Syrian population has been displaced, a phenomenon almost without precedent...
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Ce livre, intitulé "Les éclats de bonheur - la magie des sourires contagieux des enfants / פְּצָעִים שֶׁל שִׂמְחָה - קֶסֶם שְׂמֵי חֶיְיָם וּצְחֻקֵי יְלָדִים", est une collection de poèmes en français et en hébreu célébrant l'innocence, la beauté et l'inspiration que les enfants apportent à nos vies. Chaque poème explore un aspect différent de l'enfance, de la pureté des cœurs à...
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A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.
Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir moves beyond the dominant interpretive horizon of Israeli literary criticism: the relation of literature to national ideology. Rather than reproducing the...
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LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore. My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim around forever. In Syria I am declared wanted, like so many of us displaced lunar divas. The longing I feel is the deepest kind. It could crack the whole earth open. I am a Lumerian from Ancient...
60) Birthday Girl
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Sheila J. Sadr’s poetry is only the most visible manifestation of her creative drive. As an educator and therapist-in-training, she is deeply grounded in her local community and the poetry world of Southern California. That same restorative energy animates her debut collection Birthday Girl, winner of the 2018 Stories Award for Poetry. In this healing probe into femininity, Sheila J. Sadr questions and reinvents gender expectations as skillfully...
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