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41) 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.
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The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such perceptions do not reflect the complex evolution of Iranian identity that occurred in the years following the Constitutional Revolution (1906–11) and the anti-imperialist Islamic Revolution of 1979. Despite the Iranian government's determined pursuance...
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In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala' refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that are often treated as fossilized and untouchable cultural treasures. For Arab...
44) Stilt Jack
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Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson's command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the ghazal, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson's...
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In the quiet corners of existence, where shadows linger, and solitude becomes an art, "In the Absence of Light" unfolds. This collection of poems embarks on a journey into the depths of introspection, embracing the darker facets of solitude that often go unexplored.These verses are not a lamentation but a celebration of the enigmatic beauty of the silent spaces between thoughts. Here, solitude is not a mere absence; it is a canvas painted with the...
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Hailed as one of the leading Israeli poets, Benarroch's poetry has been published in a dozen languages, including Urdu and Chinese. Julia Uceda considers that Benarroch holds the memory of the world in his poetry, while Jose Luis Garcia Martin thinks that his poems are more than poetry, they are a document. A witness of his time, Benarroch started writing poetry when he was 15, in English, and has always written in his mother tongue Spanish. When...
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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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Reading David Radavich's poems transported me to the Orient, to its "dry and teeming sands" and feasts of "dates and skewered meats." He dedicates Middle-East Mezze to "those who suffered and who dream" and does not shy away from the woe of the region. He captures the dignity and suffering of the Palestinian and Iraqi peoples. . . . Radavich's poems drew me in with their easy-going, conversational tone. In this collection, every poem is alive with...
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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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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.
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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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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...
54) 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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Get the Summary of Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall tells the story of Abed Salama, a Palestinian man from Anata, and his experiences amid the Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance. Abed's early life is marked by a secret romance with Ghazl, his involvement with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of...
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Ahmed Morsi is a renowned painter as well as a prolific art critic, journalist, translator, and, as this book reveals to a new audience, a consummate poet. Poems of Alexandria and New York, Ahmed Morsi's first volume in English translation, captures the modernity and empathy at the heart of all his works, his surrealistic humour, and his visions of the dramas of ordinary life.
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Joshua Teitelbaum evaluates Saudi foreign policy in the Persian Gulf and in the Arab-Israeli peace process and provides a shrewd assessment of the Saudi-U.S. relationship. He debunks the traditional view of Saudi foreign policy that emphasizes the Saudi concern with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explains how the true concern of Arabia's rulers is the ideological battle that has been opened up by Iran's push into Arab affairs.
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Zeyno Baran examines the intense struggle between Turkey's secularists and Islamists in their most recent battles over their country's destination. Looking into the fate of both Turkey's secularism and its democratic experiment, she shows that, for all the flaws of its political journey, the modern Turkish state has managed to maintain an essential separation between religion and the political realm, a separation that is now in jeopardy.
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Khosrow and Shirin is a love story by Nezami Ganjavi--considered the greatest medieval Persian romance poet--based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court. Written 850 years ago, the narrative poem is presented here for the first time in a stunning modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis, the pre-eminent translator of Persian poetry.
The love between an Iranian prince (Khosrow) and an Armenian princess (Shirin) is at...
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