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Author : MORSI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913043155
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of Alexandria and New York written by MORSI and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 humor, and his visions of the dramas of ordinary life. It comprises two of his best known collections, Pictures from the New York Album and Elegies to the Mediterranean, both written when he resumed writing poetry following a break of nearly 30 years after the calamitous Arab defeat in the 1967 Six-Day War. The former opens up the city of New York, his home since the mid-1970s and where he still lives and works, while the latter takes readers deep into abiding memories of the Mediterranean city of his birth, Alexandria, Egypt, in 1930.

Author : Amin Zaoui
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banquet of Lies written by Amin Zaoui and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary erotic fiction has a new notable book--where Islam meets sexual and cultural taboos.

Author : Sargon Boulus
Publisher : Banipal Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780954966676
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knife Sharpener written by Sargon Boulus and published by Banipal Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus is a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, Poetry and Memory, written a few months before he died.

Author : Tayeb Salih
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995636989
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mansi written by Tayeb Salih and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif Bastawrous, sometimes known as Michael Joseph and sometimes as Ahmed Mansi Yousif. Playing Hardy to Salih's Laurel Mansi takes centre stage among memorable 20th-century arts and political figures, including Samuel Beckett, Margot Fonteyn, Omar Sharif, Arnold Toynbee, Richard Crossman and even the Queen, but always with Salih's poet "Master" al-Mutanabbi ready with an adroit comment. "Mansi casts fresh light on the experiences and attitudes of a key generation of emigré and exiled Arab writers, thinkers and activists in the West" - Boyd Tonkin

Author : SAID
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913043124
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madness of Despair written by SAID and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Madness of Despair tells the story of Maliha, who is living in London with her husband Nafie after an arranged marriage in their distant Arab homeland. ?The couple become good friends with Doctor Nadim, a fellow exile, but in the twists and turns of the friendship, the men's nostalgia for their old lives - and old ways of living - come into conflict with Maliha's ambition to live and love freely and make something of her new life now she's settled in London. Though ready to throw off the constraints of her disastrous marriage at the slightest turn, Maliha is ill-prepared for the fire of emotions that overcomes her, leading to unforeseen consequences for all three. It is a powerful narrative that reveals just how much psychological suffering and cultural displacement can upset the most ordinary of aspirations for life and love.

Author : Rasha Adly
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649030479
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl with Braided Hair written by Rasha Adly and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC LITERARY TRANSLATION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION The lives of two women living centuries apart are connected by an enigmatic painting in this mesmerizing debut based on historical events Art historian, Yasmine, is restoring an unsigned portrait of a strikingly beautiful girl from the Napoleonic Era, when she discovers that the artist has embedded a lock of hair into the painting, something highly unusual. The mysterious painting came into the museum’s possession without record, and Yasmine becomes consumed by the secret concealed within this captivating work. Meanwhile, at the close of the French Campaign in Egypt, sixteen-year-old Zeinab, the daughter of a prominent sheikh, is drawn into French high society when Napoleon himself requests her presence. Enamored by the foreign customs of the Europeans, she finds herself on a dangerous path, one that may ostracize her from her family and culture. Seamlessly merging fiction with history, art, and politics, modern day Cairo with its opulent past, this compelling story of two women caught between worlds and entangled in matters of the heart launches an entrancing new literary voice.

Author : Elias Khoury
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0982624689
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gate of the Sun written by Elias Khoury and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book This “imposingly rich . . . a genuine masterwork” vividly captures the Palestinian experience following the creation of the Israeli state (New York Times Book Review). After Palestine is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut—entering a vast world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. Khalil holds vigil at the bedside of his patient and spiritual father, a storied leader of the Palestinian resistance who has slipped into a coma. As Khalil attempts to revive Yunes, he begins a story, which branches into many: stories of the people expelled from their villages in Galilee; of the massacres that followed; of the extraordinary inner strength of those who survived; and of love. Khalil—like Elias Khoury—is a truth collector, trying to make sense of the fragments and various versions of stories that have been told to him. His voice is intimate and direct, his memories are vivid, his humanity radiates from every page. Khalil lets his mind wander through time, from village to village, from one astonishing soul to another, and takes us with him. Gate of the Sun is a Palestinian Odyssey and the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival and loss, love and devastation, memory and dream, Khoury humanizes the complex Palestinian struggle as he brings to life the story of an entire people.

Author : Adūnīs
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300153066
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adonis written by Adūnīs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh" --T.p. verso.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banipal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Banipal Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sardines and Oranges written by Peter Clark and published by Banipal Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six hard-hitting, passionate, moving, funny and human stories from North Africa by 21 authors from Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. Latifa Baqa, Ahmed Bouzfour, Rachida el-Charni, Mohamed Choukri, Mohammed Dib, Tarek Eltayeb, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Gamal el-Ghitani, Said al-Kafrawi, Idriss el-Kouri, Ahmed el-Madini, Ali Mosbah, Hassouna Mosbahi, Muhammad Mustagab, Hassan Nasr, Rabia Raihane, Tayeb Salih, Habib Selmi, Izz al-Din Tazi and Mohammed Zefzaf. Many of these authors are major literary figures in their own countries, and the Arab world. They have broken with taboos and censorship, and established standards of innovation that have encouraged younger generations of authors. Pain, hardship, heartache, humour, identity, joy, loss and strategies for survival are universal themes and all are represented here, writes Peter Clark, who edited and introduces the stories, and is one of the thirteen translators of the volume.