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Mahmoud Darwish: Literature and the Politics of Palestinian ...

Mahmoud Darwish: Literature and the Politics of Palestinian ...

Muna Abu Eid

Based on Darwish’s own writings and interviews with people who worked with him and situating Darwish’s poetry within the wider context of Palestinian struggles inside Israel, this book explores the influence of Darwish’s life and work ...
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

Mahmoud Darwish

This collection spans Darwish's entire career, nearly four decades, revealing an impressive range of expression and form.
Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

Mahmoud Darwish

Sinan Antoon’s foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish’s work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.
Mahmoud Darwish, Exile's Poet: Critical Essays

Mahmoud Darwish, Exile's Poet: Critical Essays

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This book examines the complex connections between poetry, myth, lyric, prose, and history in Darwish's poetry. The scholarly articles in this volume situate his work in relation to both modern Arabic and world poetry.
Absent Presence

Absent Presence

Mahmoud Darwish

"Darwish's poetry is an epic effort to transform the lyrics of loss into the indefinitely postponed drama of return." —Edward Said, author,Orientalism Blurring the boundaries between prose and poetry, this illuminating book explores the ...
Journal of an Ordinary Grief

Journal of an Ordinary Grief

Mahmoud Darwish

Meditative, lyrical, rhythmic, Darwish gives absence a vital presence in these linked essays. Journal is a moving and intimate account of the loss of homeland and, for many, of life inside the porous walls of occupation—no ordinary grief.
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Mahmoud Darwish

by Mahmoud Darwish; translated from Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks.—1sted. p. cm. ISBN 9781935744689 (alk. paper) I. Sacks, Jeffrey. II. Title. PJ7820.A7L513 2006 892.7'16 —dc22 2005035484 Distributed by Consortium Book Salesand ...
Nama Islami nan Indah Untuk Anak Anda:

Nama Islami nan Indah Untuk Anak Anda:

Ahmad Rofi'a Usmani

Darwisy: nama yang kadang ditulis Darwish inisecara harfiahberarti “fakir ataudarwisy”. Penyandang nama ini, misalnya, adalahSayyid Darwish, seorangpencipta lagudan penyanyi tenar di Mesir yang hidup antara 13101341 H/18921923 M.
Mahmoud Darwish, Exile's Poet: Critical Essays

Mahmoud Darwish, Exile's Poet: Critical Essays

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2 Threatened Longing and Perpetual Search: The Writing of Home in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish Najat Rahman "Home, for we have no home " —Al- Mutannabi, quoted in Adonis, Al-Kitab: ams al-makan al-an "Poetry is the original  ...
Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era: A New World ...

Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era: A New World ...

S. Mahmud Ali

A New World Emerging S. Mahmud Ali. First published 2012 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY10016 ...
The Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, ...

The Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, ...

Nawar Shora

Again, there are two correct answers: Paula Abdul and Tiffany. Paula Abdul ( Abdul is an Arabic name) is half Syrian-Jewish/half Canadian. Born in Oklahoma, Tiffany is of Syrian descent. She was named Tiffany Renee Darwish (Darwish is an ...
U.S.-China Relations in the "Asia-Pacific" Century

U.S.-China Relations in the "Asia-Pacific" Century

S. Ali

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN 978-1-349-60305-3 ISBN 978-1-137-11687-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-11687-1 Ali, S. Mahmud, 1952– U.S.-China relations in the “Asia-Pacific” century / S. Mahmud Ali ...
The Butterfly's Burden: Poems

The Butterfly's Burden: Poems

Ma?m?d Darw?sh

Newest work from Mahmoud Darwish--the most acclaimed poet in the Arab world
If I Were Another: Poems

If I Were Another: Poems

Mahmoud Darwish

The poems in this collection, constructed from the cadence and imagery of the Palestinian struggle, shift between the most intimate individual experience and the burdens of history and collective memory.
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

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'Darwish is the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people . . . lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate, and elegant - and never anything less than free-what he would dream for all his people.'- Naomi Shihab Nye
US-China Cold War Collaboration: 1971-1989

US-China Cold War Collaboration: 1971-1989

S. Mahmud Ali

The text brings a new dimension to the current literature and deepens our understanding of a key aspect of the Cold War – its end.
Understanding Bangladesh

Understanding Bangladesh

S. Mahmud Ali

This volume accounts for the political and economic experiences of the Bangladeshi state and its people, identifying the key players among Bangladesh's tiny military, political, and business elite.
Curriculum as Cultural Practice: Postcolonial Imaginations

Curriculum as Cultural Practice: Postcolonial Imaginations

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For example, it was also a small step from the history surrounding Abdelrahim Mahmud's 'The Martyr' to Laura Ambrose's contribution to the anthology, when she selected the traditional Yiddish poem 'Little Boy, Little Boy,' translated by Miriam ...
Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Ziad Elmarsafy

In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Tahar Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas'adi and Tayeb Salih we see a strong intertextual relationship with the Sufi masters of the past, including Al-Hallaj, Ibn Arabi, Al ...
The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and ...

The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and ...

Lilith Mahmud

I thank the many friends who have come into my life, and whose loving presence alone has sustained me through the writing process: Kate Bronstad, Julia Bryan- Wilson, Mel Chen, Samantha Franklin, Jean Fromm, Rose Hiu, Nancy Megli, ...
Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Ziad Elmarsafy

In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Tahar Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas'adi and Tayeb Salih we see a strong intertextual relationship with the Sufi masters of the past, including Al-Hallaj, Ibn Arabi, Al ...
Sino-Indian and Sino-South Korean Relations: Comparisons and ...

Sino-Indian and Sino-South Korean Relations: Comparisons and ...

P. R. Chari

or populism.14 However, the state enterprises, provincial governments, and the People«s Liberation Army (PLA) still enjoy great clout, ... And, decades apart, Yogi Berra«s wisdom about the future can also be recollected. ... 7 S. Mahmud Ali , ...
Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China, and South ...

Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China, and South ...

S. Mahmud Ali

This book examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s, the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts, subsequent triangular covert collaboration against Communist China, the unexpected fallout of ...
US-China Strategic Competition: Towards a New Power Equilibrium

US-China Strategic Competition: Towards a New Power Equilibrium

S. Mahmud Ali

Beijing ignored Abe's warning [23], which was reinforced by CJCS General Martin Dempsey during his coincidental trip to China. Dempsey discussed North Korea's ... In Tokyo, Dempsey reaffirmed America's treaty commitments to Japan  ...
Ayna kitabı

Ayna kitabı

Yusuf Çetindağ

MORAN, Berna, Edebiyat Kuramları ve Eleştiri, Cem/Kültür, İstanbul 1994, s. 16- 34. Muhammed b. Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, Tufe-i Murâdî, haz:Mustafa Argun- şah, TDK , Ankara 1999. Muhyiddîn-i ARABÎ, Fusûsu'l-Hikem, MEB, İstanbul 1992, 346s.
Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives

Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives

Adia Mendelson Maoz

In Mahmoud Darwish, Exile's Poet, edited by Hala Khamis Nassar and Najat Rahman, vii–xiv. Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press, 2008. ———. “Palestinian Identity in Literature.” In Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature,  ...
Literary Disinheritance: The Writing of Home in the Work of ...

Literary Disinheritance: The Writing of Home in the Work of ...

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Literary Disinheritance examines post-nationalist articulations of "home" in the writing of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and the Algerian writer Assia Djebar, providing a rare comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of ...
Heart's Kiss: A Romance Magazine: Subtitle: Featuring Deb ...

Heart's Kiss: A Romance Magazine: Subtitle: Featuring Deb ...

Stover Deb

A Magazine Celebrating Romance ISSUE 2: April 2017 Denise Little, Editor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories by: Deb Stover, M.L. Buchman, Mary Jo Putney, Dayle A. Dermatis, Gail Selinger, Petronella Glover Serialization: Galatea: A Modern ...

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