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the yacoubian building

Author : alaa al aswany
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN : 9789774248627
Pages : 280 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book the yacoubian building written by alaa al aswany and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its ground floor, each sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt -- where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth, and religious hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and defensiveness of the powerful find expression in the exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can turn quickly to extremism, and where an older, less violent vision of society may yet prevail. Alaa Al Aswany's novel caused an unprecedented stir when it was first published in 2002 and has remained the world's best selling novel in the Arabic language since.

Conscience of the Nation

Author : Richard Jacquemond
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 9789774161018
Pages : 384 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.1/5 (61 users download)

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Download or read book Conscience of the Nation written by Richard Jacquemond and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptian writers divided between social commitment and individual expression

The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century

Author : John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2017-05-11
ISBN : 1443893552
Pages : 495 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century written by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Africa is at a crossroads in an increasingly globalised world is indisputable. Equally unassailable is the fact that the humanities, as a broad field of intellection, research and learning in Africa, appears to have been pigeonholed in debates of relevance in the development aspirations of many African nations. Historical experiences and contemporary research outputs indicate, however, that the humanities, in its various shades, is critical to Africa’s capacity to respond effectively to such problems as security, corruption, political ineptitude, poverty, superstition, and HIV/AIDS, among many other mounting challenges which confront the people of Africa. The vibrancy and resilience of Africa’s cultures, against these and other odds of globalisation episodes in the course of our history, demand the focused attention of academia to exploit their relevance to contemporary issues. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the 21st century, which create a veritable platform for the global redefinition and understanding of Africa’s rich cultures and traditions. Such areas covered include ruminations in metaphysics and psychology, pathos and ethos, cinematic and literary connections, and historical conceptualisations.

Author : Samia Mehrez
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
ISBN : 9789774163746
Pages : 335 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book written by Samia Mehrez and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at some of the raging debates in the arts in Egypt

Lexicon of Global Melodrama

Author : Heike Paul
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2022-05-31
ISBN : 3839459737
Pages : 401 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Lexicon of Global Melodrama written by Heike Paul and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent ›arthouse‹ productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.

Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations

Author : Lindsey Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-30
ISBN : 1317568761
Pages : 242 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations written by Lindsey Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab world. Lindsey Moore brings together canonical and less familiar Arab novels and memoirs from the last half century to consider colonial continuities and consequences. Literary narratives are shown to oppose repressive versions of nationalism and to track desire lines toward more hospitable nations. The literatures discussed in this book enable a deeper historical understanding of twenty-first century Arab uprisings and their aftermaths. The book analyzes four rich sites of literary production: Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine. Moore explores ways in which authors critique particular nation-state formations and decolonizing histories, engage the general problematic of ‘the nation’, and redefine, repurpose, and transcend national literary canons. Chapter One contrasts Egyptian literary representations of popular revolt with official revolutionary discourse. Chapter Two addresses the enduring legacy of anti-colonial violence in Algeria and the place of Albert Camus in its literature. Chapter Three uses narratives of gender violence on the Beirut front line to reveal the divisibility and intersectional identity politics of postcolonial nation-states. Chapter Four emphasizes ways in which Palestinian memoirs insist upon remembering towards a postcolonial future. The book provides detailed analysis of literary narratives by Etel Adnan, Rabih Alameddine, Alaa al-Aswany, Rachid Boudjedra, Albert Camus, Rashid al-Daïf, Assia Djebar, Ghada Karmi, Naguib Mahfouz, Jean Said Makdisi, Edward Said, Boualem Sansal, Raja Shehadeh, Miral al-Tahawy, and Latifa al-Zayyat. It is an indispensable volume for students and scholars of Postcolonial, Arab, and World literatures.

Postcolonial Audiences

Author : Bethan Benwell
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-12
ISBN : 1136454381
Pages : 308 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Postcolonial Audiences written by Bethan Benwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the reader in postcolonial literary studies persists as a shadowy figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of reader and reception studies. Written by some of the top scholars in the field, these essays reveal readers and reception to be varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of our assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial – from the notion of reading as national fellowship to the demands of an ethics of reading.

Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature

Author : Sebastian Günther
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Release Date : 2016
ISBN : 3487421828
Pages : 286 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature written by Sebastian Günther and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations and visions of home, homeland (watan), and nation are perennial themes in Arabic literary writing. In its most recent iteration, namely modern Arabic poetry and prose, these ideas are framed against the backdrop of an increasingly expansive conceptual universe, taking in a wide array of artistic and intellectual expressions. Indeed, the notion and prospect of home and homeland gained even great currency in contemporary Arabic literature, largely in light of the Arab uprisings in 2010 and 2011, where the Arab people attempted to reclaim their countries from the many oppressive power structures guilty of robbing them of their homeland. The present volume highlights the complexity, diversity, and vitality of literary voices in expressing a broad spectrum of ideas and images centered around the Arab homeland and nation. This book therefore contributes to a deeper understanding of the historical dimensions and literary representations of home and homeland in the modern Arab world on the one hand, and the far-reaching cultural and political impact of these concepts on the other. The thematic spectrum of this book ranges from studies of writings on home and nostalgia, travel accounts, didactic epistles, and prison memoirs, as well as the nahda-literature and the genre of collective autobiographies or "village books". While some essays focus on the processes of symbolic nation-building, others deal with the literary techniques and poetic devices that modern Arab authors employ in order to deconstruct and question the political discourses on watan and Arab nationalism. This collection of essays is the result of a symposium held in 2011 at the University of Göttingen, Germany. The contributors to the volume are renowned specialists in Arabic literature and Middle East Studies working in Universities across the globe, including such countries as Australia, Denmark, Lebanon, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and Germany.

Media and Society

Author : James Curran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-09-01
ISBN : 1849664455
Pages : 400 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Media and Society written by James Curran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of this highly-respected collection of media and communication essays contains insightful analyses from leading international academics in the field on a wide range of key topics ranging from new media to film studies.

Egypt

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Release Date : 2005
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Creative Radicalism in the Middle East

Author : Caroline Rooney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06-11
ISBN : 1838601198
Pages : 240 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Creative Radicalism in the Middle East written by Caroline Rooney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the question of how neoliberal ideology has served to conflate the radical left with extremism, this book examines how the Arab left has asserted itself in the context of authoritarianism and Islamic extremism during and after the Arab uprisings. It examines how the Arab cultural left has offered a critique of the signifying practices of political hegemonies in the region and argues that though creative expression as constituted in the very language of the Arab uprisings, it has put forward its own alternatives Using a wide array of texts and sources, both Arab and non-Arab, the opening chapters of the book identify how ethical and radical values pertaining to sociality are co-opted by political leaders in the Middle East and turned into jargon. Later chapters outline resistance to this co-option through a poetics of inter-subjectivity that takes structures of feeling into account, ranging from disappointment, despair and distrust, to dignity, solidarity and reconfigured senses of the sacred. In showing how psychological and affective states relate to signifying practices, the book offers an original conceptual framework for differentiating 'radicalization' from the creative radicalism of the Arab avant-garde.

Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East

Author : Allen Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-15
ISBN : 1136837132
Pages : 252 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East written by Allen Webb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. Teaching the Literature of Today’s Middle East: • Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it • Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts and materials by Middle Eastern writers • Takes a thematic approach that allows students to understand and engage with the region and address key issues • Includes stories from the author’s own classroom, and shares student insight and reactions • Utilizes contemporary teaching methods, including cultural studies, literary circles, blogs, YouTube, class speakers, and film analysis • Directly and powerfully models how to address controversial issues in the region Written in an open, personal, and engaging style, theoretically informed and academically smart, highly relevant across the field of literacy education, this text offers teachers and teacher-educators a much needed resource for helping students to think deeply and critically about the politics and culture of the Middle East through literary engagements.

Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature

Author : M. Naaman
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
ISBN : 0230119719
Pages : 227 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature written by M. Naaman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement.

LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media

Author : Christopher Pullen
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2012-02-29
ISBN : 0230373313
Pages : 313 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media written by Christopher Pullen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.

Cairo Contested

Author : Diane Singerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
ISBN : 9774165004
Pages : 508 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Cairo Contested written by Diane Singerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a cross-disciplinary look at the public's role in the governance and remaking of Cairo, Egypt, as the government transforms urban spaces to encourage growth, tourism, security, and modernity.

Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change

Author : Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-02-15
ISBN : 9027262802
Pages : 200 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change written by Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. What these texts have in common is the use of narrative, fictional and semi-literary techniques to strategically maneuver in supporting the feasibility of political change. It is a contribution to explain how an anti-regime writer paved the way to the Arab Spring in Egypt, and thus goes against a common opinion that the Arab Spring in Egypt was fortuitous or a wholly social-media-based movement. This monograph is an attempt to help argumentation theorists, linguists, analysts of narratives, and political scientists better understand and evaluate how fiction and narration can be effective means of persuasion in the domain of political communication. It therefore reconsiders the non-straightforward and artistic variants of the language of politics.

The Work of Literature

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-03-26
ISBN : 0191047589
Pages : 320 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book The Work of Literature written by Derek Attridge and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible criticism? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which develops the arguments put forward in Derek Attridge's influential study The Singularity of Literature (2004). Beginning with an extended cross-examination in the form of an interview addressing a range of topics relating to the work of literature (understood both as the activity of the writer and as the text itself) and the practices of literary reading and literary criticism, it asks what it means to 'do justice to' a work of literature, provides a full account of the concept of singularity, considers the problematic power of criticism, and advances an account of the role of context in the writing and reading of literary works. In other chapters it explores the issue of cultural difference in responses to literature, discusses the working of metaphor, questions the attribution of knowledge to literary works, and addresses the topics of affect and hospitality. The book follows through the consequences of regarding the singular and inventive work of literature as an event that takes place anew each time it is read, providing an opening to an otherness excluded by prevailing cultural norms and habits of thought and feeling. Although the focus of the book is on literature, the arguments are relevant to all the arts, and engage with the thought of major aesthetic theorists in a number of traditions.