Laugh Like An Egyptian
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Laugh Like An Egyptian
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Author : Cristina Dozio
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-09-20
Laugh Like An Egyptian written by Cristina Dozio and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.
Walking Like An Egyptian
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Author : Jack Dash
language : en
Publisher: Jack Dash
Release Date : 2016-01-03
Walking Like An Egyptian written by Jack Dash and has been published by Jack Dash this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-03 with Travel categories.
Into the hustler’s paradise of pre-revolution Egypt comes an eccentric Englishman hell bent on making his fortune in a country where everything is late, nothing works and everyone is on the take. To pay off a savage mortgage, he leads a double life teaching in a posh school by day and haggling down the back streets of Cairo by night, trying to beat those wily Egyptians at their own game.
Laughing Matters
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Author : Giorgio Baruchello
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-11-06
Laughing Matters written by Giorgio Baruchello and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-06 with Philosophy categories.
The present book addresses the background, rationale, general structure, and particular aims and arguments characterizing our third and last volume about "humor" and "cruelty". A guiding foray is provided into the vast expert literature that can be retrieved in the Western humanities and social sciences on these two terms. Pivotal thinkers and crucial notions are duly identified, highlighted, and examined. Apposite subsidiary references are also included, especially with regard to psychodynamics and clinical psychology, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and representative recent studies in the philosophy of humor and its cognates. The stage is thus set for the exploration and assessment of the conflicts between humor and cruelty unfolding in Part 2 of Volume 3. Being the philosophical terminus of our entire research project, Volume 3 counterbalances, complements, and, occasionally, complexifies the numerous forms of mutual cooperation between humor and cruelty that the preceding Volume 2 had unearthed and discussed.
The Egyptian Princess
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Author : Jane Waller
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2020-02-20
The Egyptian Princess written by Jane Waller and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Fiction categories.
Peter Phillips, the time-traveller from Saving the Dinosaurs, now 13, is sent back 5,000 years to Ancient Egypt at the time of the Fourth Dynasty. There he finds a world where the wheel has not yet been invented, where only the prayers of the Pharaoh guarantee that the Nile will provide sufficient water for the crops, and where the Sun God, has to travel by boat through the Underworld each night in order to rise in the morning. Shortly after his arrival he is befriended by the Pharaoh’s daughter Mer-tio-tess, who believes he is a Spirit sent to help her. While increasingly attracted towards the Princess he finds himself drawn into a web of power struggles and rivalry. And things get worse when Peter, by accident, brings her back to present-day London, a cold place filled with sad-looking people which, she believes, must be the Underworld.
Approaches To Arabic Popular Culture
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Author : Konerding, Peter
language : en
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Release Date : 2021-09-27
Approaches To Arabic Popular Culture written by Konerding, Peter and has been published by University of Bamberg Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ?popular? as opposed to an intellectual ?high? culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the elite and a stance against those who have ?something to loose? within paralyzed and conservative communities. Albeit not denying the subversive political potential associated with these practices, this volume intends to take a more nuanced and broader perspective. Arabic popular culture might engage with emancipatory claims, but it might as easily follow the capitalist rulebook of global marketing. It might fight against oppressive authorities, yet it can equally become their symbol.0Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture therefore closely looks at the aesthetic implications of a topic ranging from Lebanese hip hop over Algerian pop novels to jihadi chants in the ?Islamic State? as well as from Egyptian mahraganat music over sarcastic stories about hash dens and time travel in downtown Cairo to Saudi-Arabian YouTube-influencers. Thus, the theoretical scope widens and the reader is taken on a delightful journey to the unsettling pleasures of contemporary Arabic art and culture.
The Last Egyptian Standing
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Author : Mo Nassah
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-12-05
The Last Egyptian Standing written by Mo Nassah and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-05 with Fiction categories.
The Last Egyptian Standing: The Great Egyptian is produced herein as a written format of a story based around real events that took place before, during, and following the Egyptian Revolution in the year 2011. The story is mainly from the eyes and angle of one very special young man. From before the moments of chaos and rioting began and then hit peak, MN80-M. HASSAN THE SPECIAL ONE/MALE finds his spirit suffering between heart and mind whether or not to accept the life as it is in this day and age and continue his chosen normal life, or to just join-in with everyone on and off of the streets of Cairo, the main city in Egypt, during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. At the same time, another window of opportunity opens for the possibility to follow his emotional instincts that have been restraining his heart and mind for such a long time now, especially from before the 25th of January 2011 early start into the Egyptian Revolution. Or, also the simple possibility to just sit back and watch everything un-fold from the Television at home in the United Kingdom. MO NASSAH, born in 1980, has written several unpublished novels and dozens of short stories that until this moment in time, he felt not to publish and share with this World, until now. This story and book herein being the first published book from a set series created and written by the Author MO NASSAH. He said, she said, is exactly what happens in this version/book, and over eighty (80%) percent of this book is a true story. Hence, a reason the words of each character (to the Author) was/is more important for the first book to be written in exactly this way, and/or form, for the reader(s) of each book to truly appreciate, and understand at-least some of that to come in the second, third and fourth book of this part of the entire MN80-M story series starting as, The Last Egyptian Standing: The Great Egyptian. In 2011, MO NASSAH lives alone in his birth place location, the cosmopolitan city of London, England, United Kingdom. From the outspoken and brilliant start until the end of this entire true story, the author allows us the readers to enjoy the read as we enter a new World. A whole new dimension with real life CHARACTERS and personalities that capture the heart of each reader from the very first chapter, when all of the chaos begins, in Egypt. Full of excitement, passion adventure, love, envy, fear, betrayal, success, murder, mystery, fantasy and much much more. As sad, and as happy, as some of these events may be to some, this is a true story, and a part of the History of Mankind now, the History of you, and I. Especially with the main character MN80-M. HASSAN THE AMAZING ONE/MALE alive.
Legends Of The Ancient Egyptian Record Keepers
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Author : LEARN ALCHEMICAL EDITORS
language : en
Publisher: DTTV PUBLICATIONS
Release Date :
Legends Of The Ancient Egyptian Record Keepers written by LEARN ALCHEMICAL EDITORS and has been published by DTTV PUBLICATIONS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
In this Book, the tales of the ancient gods of ancient Egypt are told, legends that circulated during the time described by the Egyptians as the "morning of the world," initially carved in stone and preserved on papyrus for millennia until today. In addition to compelling interest in ancient Egypt's religion and culture, this Book also fuels the imagination about the lost knowledge of the Egyptians. Each ancient piece of literature in the Book has notes for the more scientific reader, though it is intended for the layman. A collection of great scholars has translated the origin of the legend, the Book, or the books in which the original may be found, and the papyrus texts into one of the modern languages. Other multitudes of translations are available in specialist libraries; however, many are only helpful to those who study the Egyptian language and literature. The legends are ordered as follows: first, come to the stories of various gods, then Osiris and the deities associated with him, and finally Ra. The myths and the gods that appear in them give you a fascinating picture in your mind.
Egyptian Made
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Author : Leslie T. Chang
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Egyptian Made written by Leslie T. Chang and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Social Science categories.
An incisive exploration of women and work, showing how globalization’s promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression—from the acclaimed author of Factory Girls “Exhaustively reported and researched, Egyptian Made takes us halfway across the world and inside the intimate lives of women caught between tradition and independence.”—Monica Potts, New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Girls What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization? In this sharply drawn portrait of Egyptian society—deepened by two years of immersive reporting—Leslie T. Chang follows three women as they persevere in a country that throws up obstacles to their progress at every step, from dramatic swings in economic policy to conservative marriage expectations and a failing education system. Working in Egypt’s centuries-old textile industry, Riham is a shrewd businesswoman who nevertheless struggles to attract workers to her garment factory and to compete in the global marketplace. Rania, who works on a factory assembly line, attempts to climb to a management rank but is held back by conflicts with co-workers and the humiliation of an unhappy marriage. Her colleague Doaa, meanwhile, pursues an education and independence but sacrifices access to her own children in order to get a divorce. Alongside these stories, Chang shares her own experiences living and working in Egypt for five years, seeing through her own eyes the risks and prejudices that working women continue to face. She also weaves in the history of Egypt’s vaunted textile industry, its colonization and independence, a century of political upheaval, and the history of Islam in Egypt, all of which shaped the country as it is today and the choices available to Riham, Rania, and Doaa. Following each woman’s story from home and work, Chang powerfully observes the near-impossible balancing act that Egyptian women strike every day.
Love Sex And Desire In Modern Egypt
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Author : L. L. Wynn
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2018-11-23
Love Sex And Desire In Modern Egypt written by L. L. Wynn 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 2018-11-23 with Social Science categories.
Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability—and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayah’s friend is a prostitute or a virgin; Malak, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who won’t treat her like a whore just because she’s a dancer; and Alia, a Christian banker who left her abusive husband, is the mistress of a wealthy Muslim man, Haroun, who encourages business by hosting risqué parties for other men and their mistresses. Set in transnational Cairo over two decades, Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt is an ethnography that explores female respectability, male honor, and Western theories and fantasies about Arab society. L. L. Wynn uses stories of love affairs to interrogate three areas of classic anthropological theory: mimesis, kinship, and gift. She develops a broad picture of how individuals love and desire within a cultural and political system that structures the possibilities of, and penalties for, going against sexual and gender norms. Wynn demonstrates that love is at once a moral horizon, an attribute that “naturally” inheres in particular social relations, a social phenomenon strengthened through cultural concepts of gift and kinship, and an emotion deeply felt and desired by individuals.
Laughing Gods Weeping Virgins
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Author : Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1997
Laughing Gods Weeping Virgins written by Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse. The Mesopotamian Anu, the Israelite Jahweh, the Greek Dionysos, the Gnostic Christ and the late modern Jesus were all laughing gods. Through their laughter, gods prove both their superiority and their proximity to humans. In this comprehensive study, Professor Gilhus examines the relationship between corporeal human laughter and spiritual divine laughter from c`ussical antiquity, to the Christian West and the modern era. She combines the study of the history of religion with social-scientific approaches, to provide an original and pertinent exploration of a universal human phenomenon, and its significance for the development of religions.