Aunt Safiyya And The Monastery
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Aunt Safiyya And The Monastery
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Author : Bahaa' Taher
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-06-27
Aunt Safiyya And The Monastery written by Bahaa' Taher and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-27 with Fiction categories.
In Egypt, a Muslim on the run from a family feud seeks refuge in a Christian monastery. The novel traces the abrasive relationship between him and the monks. A clash of cultures.
Aunt Safiyya And The Monastery
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Author : Bahāʼ Ṭāhir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Aunt Safiyya And The Monastery written by Bahāʼ Ṭāhir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
In Egypt, a Muslim on the run from a family feud seeks refuge in a Christian monastery. The novel traces the abrasive relationship between him and the monks. A clash of cultures.
Aunt Safiyya And The Monastery
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Author : Bahaa' Taher
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-06-27
Aunt Safiyya And The Monastery written by Bahaa' Taher and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-27 with Fiction categories.
This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers—including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz—noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, tells the dramatic story of a young Muslim who, when his life is threatened, finds sanctuary in a community of Coptic monks. It is a tale of honor and of the terrible demands of blood vengeance; it probes the question of how a people or nation can become divided against itself. Taher has a magical gift for evoking the village life of Upper Egypt—a vastly different setting than urban Cairo and a landscape that tourists usually glimpse only from the windows of trains and buses taking them to the Pharaonic sites. Here, where Christians and Muslims have coexisted peacefully for centuries, where the traditions of the Coptic Church are as powerful as those of the Muslims, Taher crafts an intricate and compelling tale of far-reaching implications. With a powerful narrative voice and a genius for capturing the complex nuances of human interaction, Taher brilliantly depicts the poignant drama of a traditional society caught up in the process of change.
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Author : بهاء طاهر
language : ar
Publisher: دار الشروق
Release Date : 2007
written by بهاء طاهر and has been published by دار الشروق this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Arabic fiction categories.
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Love In Exile
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Author : Bahaa Taher
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2005
Love In Exile written by Bahaa Taher and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
A new paperback edition of a haunting novel of love and loss and the impossibility of true exile from the world
The Map Of Love
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Author : Ahdaf Soueif
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-09-10
The Map Of Love written by Ahdaf Soueif and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk, inside which are found notebooks and journals which reveal Anna and Sharif's secret.
As Doha Said
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Author : طاهر، بهاء،
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2008
As Doha Said written by طاهر، بهاء، and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
In Egypt a new era has dawned, but the dawn has taken an ominous turn. President Gamal Abdel Nasser has just proclaimed the first in a series of nationalization decrees, the stock exchange has shut down, and its parking attendant, Sayyid, is staring at penury. Across the street, the office of the Ministry's Supervisory Board of Administrative Organization is engulfed in an eerie silence, and the narrator, one of the two remaining fulltime occupants of that nearly defunct government office, has fallen desperately in love with the other, Doha-forceful, erudite, and, a complete enigma. The narrator helps Sayyid find a job in the janitorial staff of the Ministry and then watches in amazement as he pursues avenues for career advancement and political participation that would never have been open to him before the Revolution, avenues that the narrator himself has lost interest in. And soon he is thrown much closer together with Doha: a ministerial study grant comes through that enables them to attend an administrative training program in Rome, and there Doha reveals to him other aspects of her mysterious nature, including a spiritual bond to the Egyptian goddess Aset, before suddenly and inexplicably cutting him adrift. As the narrator struggles with rejection, we glimpse some of the ills of the post-revolutionary order: suppression of freedoms, corruption, ideological witch hunts, a disastrous intervention in Yemen. But As Doha Said is less about a revolution's dreams turned sour than about awakening. A sophisticated, richly textured novel, it combines a realistic weft of events and deftly depicted characters that undergo subtle mutations-and, indeed, amputations-with a warp of mythical and historical iconography, a weave that allows the author to explore such themes as apathy and despair, courage and self-sacrifice, ambition and temptation, disillusionment and political faith, and, above all, commitment and betrayal, and to lift them to a universal, almost metaphysical level.
Egypt S Others
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Author : Mary Youssef
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Egypt S Others written by Mary Youssef and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Blue Lorries
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Author : Radwa Ashour
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Blue Lorries written by Radwa Ashour and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Fiction categories.
Nada is no stranger to protest. She is five years old when her French mother takes her to visit her Egyptian father, a political activist with a passing resemblance to President Nasser, in prison. When he returns home five years later, a changed man, their little family begins to fracture and eventually Nada's mother moves back to Paris. Through her teenage years Nada is surrounded by the language of protest – 'anarchism', 'Trotskyism', 'communism' – and, one summer in Paris, she discovers the '68 movement and her first love. And how to slam doors in anger. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Through student sit-ins, imprisonments, passionate arguments, accidental alliances, fallen friends, joys and regrets, Nada's story grows into the story of Egypt's many celebrated activists such as Arwa and Siham. Moving, uplifting and deeply human, Radwa Ashour's masterpiece is the story of Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century and a paean to all those who choose a life of activism and quiet defiance.
Contemporary World Fiction
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Author : Juris Dilevko
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-03-17
Contemporary World Fiction written by Juris Dilevko and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.