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Author : عايدي، أحمد
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009
Being Abbas El Abd written by عايدي، أحمد and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
"The millennial generation's most celebrated literary achievement."--Al-Ahram Weekly "The first glimmer of hope for a true fictional renaissance--an instantly rewarding read embraced by an unprecedented range of literary figures"--The Daily Star What is madness?" asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy's jittery, funny, and angry novel. Assuring readers that they are about to find out, the narrator takes us on a journey through the insanity of present-day Cairo--in and out of minibuses, malls, and crash pads, navigating the city's pinball machine of social life with tolerable efficiency. But lurking under the rocks in his grouchy, chain-smoking, pharmaceutically-oriented, twenty-something life are characters like his elusive psychiatrist uncle with a disturbing interest in phobias. And then there's Abbas, the narrator's best friend who surfaces at critical moments to drive our hero into uncontrollably multiplying difficulties. For instance, there's the ticklish situation with the simultaneous blind-dates Abbas has set up for him on different levels of a coffee-shop in a Cairo mall with two girls both called Hind. With friends like Abbas, what paranoiac needs enemies?
Being Abbas El Abd
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Author : Ahmed Alaidy
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2009-10-15
Being Abbas El Abd written by Ahmed Alaidy and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Fiction categories.
"The millennial generation's most celebrated literary achievement." Al-Ahram Weekly "The first glimmer of hope for a true fictional renaissance an instantly rewarding read embraced by an unprecedented range of literary figures" The Daily Star "What is madness?" asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy's jittery, funny, and angry novel. Assuring readers that they are about to find out, the narrator takes us on a journey through the insanity of present-day Cairo in and out of minibuses, malls, and crash pads, navigating the city's pinball machine of social life with tolerable efficiency. But lurking under the rocks in his grouchy, chain-smoking, pharmaceutically-oriented, twenty-something life are characters like his elusive psychiatrist uncle with a disturbing interest in phobias. And then there's Abbas, the narrator's best friend who surfaces at critical moments to drive our hero into uncontrollably multiplying difficulties. For instance, theres the ticklish situation with the simultaneous blind-dates Abbas has set up for him on different levels of a coffee-shop in a Cairo mall with two girls both called Hind. With friends like Abbas, what paranoiac needs enemies?
Being Abbas El Abd
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Author : Ahmed Alaidy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Being Abbas El Abd written by Ahmed Alaidy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Cairo (Egypt) categories.
“What is madness?” asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy’s jittery, funny, and angry new novel, Being Abbas el Abd. Assuring readers that they are about to find out, the narrator takes us on his subsequent itinerary through the insanity of present-day Cairo—in and out of minibuses, malls, and crash pads. Sharing the intensity of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and the hip sensibility of Douglas Coupland’s Generation X, Ahmed Alaidy’s work pushes the limits of written Arabic, developing private meanings and personal rhythms that mirror the weft and warp of the narrator’s mind and revel in every linguistic register from ironic high Classical Arabic to the ingenious abuse of the streets via the hip colloquial language of Egypt’s “what-have-I-got-to-lose” generation. A literary sensation in its original Arabic edition, Being Abbas el Abd heralds the arrival of a major new voice in Arabic literature.
Cairo Cosmopolitan
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Author : Diane Singerman
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2009-08-01
Cairo Cosmopolitan written by Diane Singerman and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Architecture categories.
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today's Middle East. The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnographic methods and sensitive to ambivalence and contingency, to reveal the new contours and patterns of modern power emerging in the urban frame. Contributors: Mona Abaza, Nezar AlSayyad, Paul Amar, Walter Armbrust, Vincent Battesti, Fanny Colonna, Eric Denis, Dalila ElKerdany, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Farha Ghannam, Galila El Kadi, Anouk de Koning, Petra Kuppinger, Anna Madoeuf, Catherine Miller, Nicolas Puig, Said Sadek, Omnia El Shakry, Diane Singerman, Elizabeth A. Smith, Leïla Vignal, Caroline Williams.
Trials Of Arab Modernity
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Author : Tarek El-Ariss
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2013-03
Trials Of Arab Modernity written by Tarek El-Ariss and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with Literary Collections categories.
Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward.
After The American Century
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Author : Brian T. Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-01
After The American Century written by Brian T. Edwards and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
When Henry Luce announced in 1941 that we were living in the "American century," he believed that the international popularity of American culture made the world favorable to U.S. interests. Now, in the digital twenty-first century, the American century has been superseded, as American movies, music, and video games are received, understood, and transformed. How do we make sense of this shift? Building on a decade of fieldwork in Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran, Brian T. Edwards maps new routes of cultural exchange that are innovative, accelerated, and full of diversions. Shaped by the digital revolution, these paths are entwined with the growing fragility of American "soft" power. They indicate an era after the American century, in which popular American products and phenomena—such as comic books, teen romances, social-networking sites, and ways of expressing sexuality—are stripped of their associations with the United States and recast in very different forms. Arguing against those who talk about a world in which American culture is merely replicated or appropriated, Edwards focuses on creative moments of uptake, in which Arabs and Iranians make something unexpected. He argues that these products do more than extend the reach of the original. They reflect a world in which culture endlessly circulates and gathers new meanings.
Egypt S Culture Wars
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Author : Samia Mehrez
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-04-01
Egypt S Culture Wars written by Samia Mehrez and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with Social Science categories.
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts. Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of questions about the relationship between the cultural and political fields in Egypt.
The Postcolonial Short Story
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Author : Maggie Awadalla
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-23
The Postcolonial Short Story written by Maggie Awadalla and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today – the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies – it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.
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Author : Samia Mehrez
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
written by Samia Mehrez 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 2010-01-01 with categories.
A look at some of the raging debates in the arts in Egypt
Gender Nation And The Arabic Novel
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Author : Hoda Elsadda
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-31
Gender Nation And The Arabic Novel written by Hoda Elsadda and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt.