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Beirut Blues
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Author : Hanan al-Shaykh
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2013-04-10
Beirut Blues written by Hanan al-Shaykh and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-10 with Fiction categories.
With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level. The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the chaos surrounding the heroine, Asmahan, as she futilely writes letters to her loved ones, to her friends, to Beirut, and to the war itself--letters of lament that are never to be answered except with their own resounding echoes. In Beirut Blues, Hanan al-Shaykh evokes a Beirut that has been seen by few, and that will never be seen again.
Beirut Blues
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Author : Ḥanān Shaykh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Beirut Blues written by Ḥanān Shaykh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
First published in Arabic in 1992 and in English translation in 1995. A novel written in the form of letters by a sensitive and passionate woman loving and living amid the danger, deprivation and follies of war-torn Beirut.
Beirut Blues
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Author : Lydia Daher
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Beirut Blues written by Lydia Daher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Beirut Blues
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Author : Hanan al-Shaykh
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Beirut Blues written by Hanan al-Shaykh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
The Facts On File Companion To The World Novel
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Author : Michael Sollars
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2008
The Facts On File Companion To The World Novel written by Michael Sollars and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
The Story Of Zahra
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Author : Ḥanān Shaykh
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 1995
The Story Of Zahra written by Ḥanān Shaykh and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Zahra, a young Lebanese woman haunted by memories of abuse by her parents, enters into a loveless marriage in West Africa and then returns to war-torn Beirut.
Beirut Imagining The City
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Author : Ghenwa Hayek
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-29
Beirut Imagining The City written by Ghenwa Hayek and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-29 with History categories.
Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But to what extent has the city affected and shaped the formation and perceptions of Lebanese national identity? Ghenwa Hayek here explores how anxieties over the past, present and future of Beirut have been articulated through a sense of dislocation present in Lebanese writing since the 1960s. Drawing on theories of cultural studies, geography and history, the author uses an interdisciplinary framework to explore the role that spaces - from rural to urban - have played and continue to play in the defining, and re-defining, of national identity in the seventy years since the creation of the Lebanese nation state. This theoretical perspective coupled with a close reading of little-explored contemporary writings lead Hayek to question the predominant assumption that Lebanese novelists only became engaged in discourses about place identity and individual and social belonging with the start of the fifteen-year civil war and the destruction of Beirut's city centre. Instead, the book shows that particular geographical imaginaries have been mobilized to describe, question and debate Lebanese identity since the 1960s and that some go back even further into the late nineteenth century. This re-reading calls for a re-evaluation of some of the most predominant assumptions about Lebanon and the processes of Lebanese identity formation across the country's modern history. Examining a wide range of modern and contemporary literature, Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity.
Reconstructing Beirut
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Author : Aseel Sawalha
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-05-01
Reconstructing Beirut written by Aseel Sawalha and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of the war was an unstable situation Sawalha considers "a postwar state of emergency," even as the state strove to restore normalcy. This ethnography centers on various groups' responses to Beirut's large, privatized urban-renewal project that unfolded during this turbulent moment. At the core of the study is the theme of remembering space. The official process of rebuilding the city as a node in the global economy collided with local day-to-day concerns, and all arguments invariably inspired narratives of what happened before and during the war. Sawalha explains how Beirutis invoked their past experiences of specific sites to vie for the power to shape those sites in the future. Rather than focus on a single site, the ethnography crosses multiple urban sites and social groups, to survey varied groups with interests in particular spaces. The book contextualizes these spatial conflicts within the discourses of the city's historical accounts and the much-debated concept of heritage, voiced in academic writing, politics, and journalism. In the afterword, Sawalha links these conflicts to the social and political crises of early twenty-first-century Beirut.
The Locust And The Bird
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Author : Hanan Al-Shaykh
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-04-05
The Locust And The Bird written by Hanan Al-Shaykh 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 2010-04-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A richly woven and breathtaking memoir from the perspective of the author's own mother: a Radio 4 Book of the Week 'It is an extraordinarily brave act for a writer to undertake to inhabit, fully and sympathetically, the life her mother lived before she was born, particularly when her mother was no jewel of wifely virtue' J.M. Coetzee 'This is a book that wears its heart firmly on its sleeve, offering an insight into an unfamiliar culture and a cinematic love story' The Times Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. She has never learned to read or write, though she longs to go to school. Stories, poetry and film are her passion - and a beautiful boy called Muhammad. They fall in love before Kamila is forced into an arranged marriage, despite her tears and screams. She is only fourteen years old. On her wedding night her first daughter is conceived; four years later, Hanan is born. Kamila and Muhammad continue to see each other in secret, risking their lives. It is eight years before Kamila can bring herself to divorce her husband, as to do so means leaving her daughters behind. Beautifully evoking the dusty streets of Beirut and life in Lebanon, this is a heartbreaking memoir of an extraordinary woman.
Step Across This Line
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Author : Salman Rushdie
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-12-26
Step Across This Line written by Salman Rushdie and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-26 with Literary Collections categories.
The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy. In a central section, 'Messages from the Plague Years', Rushdie focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, presenting texts both personal and political, which show for the first time how it was to live through those days. Rushdie's columns for the New York Times confront current issues - Kashmir, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Islam and the West - as well as lighter topics such as reality TV, sport and sleaze. The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.