Little Songs In The Shade Of Tamaara

Author : Muhammed Afifi
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286140
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Songs in the Shade of Tamaara written by Muhammed Afifi and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the rare downpours of winter and the dust storms of spring could banish him indoors. Yet, whether inspired at the side of the heater, purring black cat on his lap, or next to the pansy bed, with ecstatic flocks of bee-eaters overhead, Afifi's intimate, whimsical musings radiate a profound and unique sense of place. Mohammed Afifi died in 1981, in winter, just after completing this fictionalized memoir."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Muhammed Afifi
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610752414
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Songs in the Shade of Tamaara written by Muhammed Afifi and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise, for the skeptic Mohammed Afifi, was just four steps down from his porch into a sunny garden. There he would sit, morning and evening, in the shadow of Tamaara, his beloved tamarhinna tree, soaking up the sights, sounds, and smells of his precious corner of the natural world. From an old yellow straw chair, Afifi would train his perceptive gaze on that garden in all its detail. Flora and fauna blessed him with honorary membership in their enchanted realm. Only the rare downpours of winter and the dust storms of spring could banish him indoors. Yet, whether inspired at the side of the heater, purring black cat on his lap, or next to the pansy bed, with ecstatic flocks of bee-eaters overhead, Afifi’s intimate, whimsical musings radiate a profound and unique sense of place. Lisa J. White’s nuanced translation of Taramiim fii Dhill Taraara captures Afifi’s impish, ironic sense of humor and his unsparing honesty. She handles Afifi’s parting gift to the world with great care and honor. Mohammed Afifi died in 1981, in winter, just after completing this fictionalized memoir. Majestic and melancholy, mysterious and magical—the essence of his world, Afifi’s extraordinary garden, is here revealed to the English-speaking world.

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Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972061
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homecoming written by and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Johnson-Davies, a distinguished translator from Arabic, has produced a collection of nearly 60 Egyptian short stories that usefully adds to the growing corpus of Arab literature available in English."—Choice Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as “the leading Arabic–English translator of our time,” arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time. He continued to translate over the decades, and sixty years later he brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt’s leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum of styles, and includes works by Teymour, Hakki, Gohar, and Mahfouz and later writers such as Mohamed El-Bisatie, Said el-Kafrawi, Bahaa Taher, and Radwa Ashour, as well as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar, Mansoura Ez Eldin, and Youssef Rakha.

Author : Mohamed Makhzangi
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655622
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals in Our Days written by Mohamed Makhzangi and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi’s unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans—water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights, brass grasshoppers purchased in a crowded Bangkok market, or ghostly rabbits that haunt the site of a long-ago brutal military crackdown. Other stories tell of bear-trainers in India and of the American invasion of Iraq as experienced by a foal, deer, and puppies. Originally published in 2006, Makhzangi’s stories are part of a long tradition of writings on animals in Arabic literature. In this collection, animals offer a mute testament to the brutality and callousness of humanity, particularly when modernity sunders humans from the natural environment. Makhzangi is one of Egypt’s most perceptive and nuanced authors, merging a writer’s empathy with a scientist’s curiosity about the world. Like Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior, Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes, or J. M. Coetzee’s Lives of Animals, Makhzangi’s stories trace the numinous, almost supernatural, connections between our species and others. In these resonant, haunting tales, Animals in Our Days foregrounds our urgent need to reacquire the sense of awe, humility, and respect that once characterized our relationship with animals.

Author : Salih J. Altoma
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Literature in Translation written by Salih J. Altoma and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensible guide to modern Arabic literature in English translation features not only a comprehensive bibliography but also chapters on fiction, drama, poetry, and autobiography, as well as a special chapter on Iraq's Arabic literature. By focusing on Najib Mahfuz, one of Arabic Literature's luminaries, and on poetry--a major, if not the major genre of the region-- Altoma assesses the progress made towards a wider reception of Arabic writing throughout the western world.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1714 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Author : Gh/adah Samm/an
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557283825
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Beirut '75 written by Gh/adah Samm/an and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lebanon during the war, the lives of five strangers brought together by a communal taxi ride. The protagonists include a woman who gives up teaching in a convent to become a man's mistress, an unemployed individual who becomes a thief, and a fisherman who wants his son to stop studying and enter the family business.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index Islamicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1410 pages
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Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa J White
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649030142
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rooted in the Body written by Lisa J White and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique comic-illustrated exploration of the rich vocabulary derived from body parts in Arabic We are all married to our bodies, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. As a result, the body is a hard-wired, powerful presence in thought and speech. Rooted in the Body: Arabic Metaphor and Morphology considers this basic premise of linguistic embodiment and shows how it is especially true of Arabic. Consciously and unconsciously, speakers of Arabic use reams of vocabulary derived from the body, making it an ideal springboard for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Arabic morphology. Structurally speaking, Arabic is a language built on abstract roots, short sequences of single consonants that are systematically modified to produce actual vocabulary. Learning to recognize and manipulate those roots is an invaluable skill, especially for non-native adult learners, because it lightens their memorization load significantly. Rooted in the Body uses delightful side-by-side essays and comic illustrations to invite readers to explore Arabic’s signature morphology as they reflect on some 120 metaphorically charged body parts. On the long road to proficiency, lexical precision is important, but so, too, is cultural fluency. As it demystifies the links between morphology and semantics, Rooted in the Body also uses citations from Arabic’s rich cultural history to highlight the body’s vital role in language. This book will be a fascinating and invaluable resource, not only for advanced learners of Arabic but for linguists, rhetoricians, and philosophers of language.