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  • Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans

    Selections from the Poetry of the Afghansby H. G. RavertyAnthology of later Sufi poets from Afghanistan, many translated directly from rare manuscripts."It must be remembered, that these poems are the effusions of men who never enjoyed any of what we call the luxuries of life; yet how refined are the generality of their sentiments! Of men who lived in a state, such as our own Borderers lived in, ... Read more

    PHP154.86

  • Ancient Assyria | Children's Middle Eastern History Books

    Fill your kids with some powerful knowledge about the Middle Eastern culture with this book about the Ancient Assyria. Situated in the North-eastern part of Iraq, Assyria’s history is so rich that it deserves a spot in your children’s bright minds. Teach them to start liking history by getting them a copy of this book. ... Read more

    PHP192.24

  • Sufism and Transcendentalism

    A Poststructuralist Dialogue Between Rumi and Whitman

    by Elham Shayegh ...
    The rhetoric of cultural identity generally goes in two potential directions: One a universal line that insists on an overall pattern of integration and harmony among all peoples regardless of their differences, and the other a line which suggests that various cultures are so specific and different that they will eventually enter into clash, violence and war. Drawing upon Derrida's concept of ... Read more

    PHP4,601.59

  • Muslim and Supermuslim

    The Quest for the Perfect Being and Beyond

    by Roy Jackson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human. The transhumanist movement, in its more radical expression, sees Homo sapiens as the cousin, perhaps the poorer cousin, of a new Humanity 2.0: ‘Man’ is replaced by ‘Superman’. The contribution that Islam can make to this movement ... Read more

    PHP5,069.09

  • Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia

    Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by al-Isfahani

    The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897-971) is the most extensive collection of anecdotes from pre-Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad to the beginning of the tenth century. Entertaining and informative, these gems have remained largely inaccessible to Western readers. This translation presents a collection of love stories and poems, biting satires, daring erotic encounters, ... Read more

    PHP689.09

  • Arabizi as a Learning and Teaching Resource

    A Linguistic Study of Arabic in a Foreign Language Classroom

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is the first of its genre to explore the use of Arabizi, the Romanized script of the Arabic language that is used online or in chat apps, in the Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) classroom. It fills a noticeable, and glaring, gap in teaching a non-Romanized language through Romanized representation by observing and studying Arabizi as a resource that is yet to be acknowledged. As such, ... Read more

    PHP6,756.89

  • Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society

    A social and political history of two decades of Egyptian neoliberalism through children’s picture books published in Egypt in the post-2000 eraChildren’s picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators, and as cultural objects they are an expression of the zeitgeist of a particular era. They reveal much about the hopes, values, and ... Read more

    PHP2,919.89 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • بەئاسمانی رۆژهەڵاتی ناڤینەوە-١

    by Niyazi Braim ...
    Series series ١
    ئەم کتێبە کە لەبەردەستدایە ، بەرگی یەکەممە لە نوسینەکانم لە ماوەی ١٥ ساڵدا، کۆی گشتی بەرگەکان خۆیان لە ١٢ بەرگ زیاتر دەدات ، کە تێکڕایان ، راپۆرتە هەواڵ و هەواڵ و شرۆڤە و دۆکۆمێنت و بابەت و راو سەرنجی میدیاکانی جیهان و هەرێمییە، سەبارەت بە هەرچوار پارچەی کوردستان و رۆژهەڵاتی ناڤین وجیهان.ئەم کتێبە یاداشت نوسینەوەی کەسیم نییە ، بەڵکو نوسینەکانمە لە ساتو شوێنی خۆیدا نوسراوە و، لە کتێبێکدا ، دەیخەمە ... Read more

    PHP497.88

  • Premises and Problems

    Essays on World Literature and Cinema

    Edited by Luiza Franco Moreira ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    World literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to critically interrogate world literature and cinema, Premises and Problems approaches this system from the perspective of languages and film traditions that do ... Read more

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  • Dio assemblato

    Saggio sull'origine del monoteismo, fra scontro di civiltà e guerra interreligiosa

    by Ton Milan ...
    Dal 24 febbraio 2022 è in corso una terrificante guerra della Russia contro l’Ucraina per la contrapposizione di forze antagoniste: le filorusse e le ortodosse contro le europeiste e le cattoliche. Ancora una volta la fede religiosa è coinvolta nelle diatribe politiche, per cui se n’è presa visione per ribadire l’inconsistenza della religione, non esistendo la divinità che dovrebbe ... Read more

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  • Writing in Red

    Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union

    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    The republic of Turkey and the Soviet Union both emerged from the wreckage of empires surrounding World War I, and pathways of literary exchange soon opened between the two revolutionary states. Even as the Turkish government pursued a friendly relationship with the USSR, it began to persecute communist writers. Whether going through official channels or fleeing repression, many Turkish writers ... Read more

    PHP1,831.09

  • بيوغرافيا اللَّيل

    مُقارباتٌ في مناماتٍ إبداعيّة

    ثمّة كتابة نهاريّة قدرها الصباحات البائسة والنفوس شبه الطبيعيّة؛ كتابة هادئة، ومطمئنة، وسطحيّة الطروس، وناعمة الملامس، وذلك في مقابل كتابة نوكتيرونيّة تصنعها النفوس الاستثنائيّة داخل ورشة الدياميس المرعبة. كتابة صاخبة وقلقة وعميقة الأغوار، وناتئة المدارك. لنقل، على سبيل الاستعارة، إنّها محبرة شديدة السواد، نازفة من الروح اللاّمتآلفة مع أنظمة العالم المتكلّس، يستعين بها نبّاش لحود في مقابر الأبديّة ... Read more

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  • مقاربات في المتن الروائي العربي

    يرى المؤلف أن الفن الروائي العربي- القادم إلينا من ثقافة غربية لها خصوصياتها ومميزاتها- عاجز عن الانتشار بسبب عدم قدرته على التحرر من أسر جذوره الغربية. لذلك يبدو عاجزاً بالتالي عن تأسيس خطاب روائي عربي حداثي مستقل عن الجذور والمنبت الغربي؛ أي مندمج في الهوية الثقافية للغة الضاد ومتماهٍ مع خصوصيتها وطابعها الثقافي، كما هو الحال بالنسبة لنوعي القصة والشعر الأصيلين في الثقافة العربية.ويرى المؤلف ... Read more

    PHP406.44

  • The Worlding of Arabic Literature

    Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability

    Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater ... Read more

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  • La Vida en Tiempos Heroicos de Persia

    Un viaje para descubrir la magia de la épica persa

    by Italo Pizzi ...
    Italo Pizzi (Parma 1849 - Turín 1920) fue uno de los mayores orientalistas italianos. Profesor de Persa y de Filología indoiraní en la Universidad de Turín y subbibliotecario de la Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana de Florencia, tradujo y publicó entre 1886 y 1888 la versión integral en verso del Shāhnāme, el "Libro de los Reyes" de Hakīm Abū l-Qāsim Ferdowsī, el más grande poeta épico de la ... Read more

    PHP348.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La fuite en Égypte

    Supplément aux voyages européens en Orient

    Edited by Jean-Claude Vatin ...
    Series series Recherches et témoignages
    Le domaine oriental est devenu peu à peu spécifique depuis le début du XIXe siècle. Ses misères lui appartiennent comme ses splendeurs, ses façons d'être hostile à l'étranger et violent vis-à-vis de l'ennemi comme d'accueillir le visiteur ou de recevoir l'hôte sont uniques. On n'y connaît point l'art de peindre mais celui de bâtir et d'enjoliver. Le roman y est moins pratiqué que le conte. Les ... Read more

    PHP310.96

  • Islamophobia and the Novel

    by Peter Morey ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In an era of rampant Islamophobia, what do literary representations of Muslims and anti-Muslim bigotry tell us about changing concepts of cultural difference? In Islamophobia and the Novel, Peter Morey analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to the rise of anti-Muslim prejudice, showing how their portrayals of Muslims both reflect and refute the ideological preoccupations of ... Read more

    PHP2,722.99

  • Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578–1727

    by Nabil Matar ...
    Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims had no interest in Europe during this period of Western discovery and empire, but in fact these ... Read more

    PHP3,403.69

  • Writing Queer Identities in Morocco

    Abdellah Taïa and Moroccan Committed Literature

    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen examines Taïa's art and activism in the context of the wider debates around sexuality in Morocco.Placing key novels such as Salvation ... Read more

    PHP2,024.19

  • Sofia Coppola

    A Cinema of Girlhood

    She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects femininity. Fiona Handyside here considers the careful counter-balance ... Read more

    PHP1,639.19

  • The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures

    The Culture of Love and Languishing

    In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book explores the concept of the beloved in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary manner, revealing how shared ideas on the subject supersede geographical and temporal boundaries, and ideas of nationhood. The book considers the beloved in its ... Read more

    PHP8,248.69

  • أدب الطِّفل وأبعاده التَّربوية

    خلف صفحات هذا الكتاب، رحلةٌ في عالم أدب الطفل، تُسلط الضوء على أهميته التربوية، وتستكشف أبعاده المتعددة. سوف تكتشف كيف يُمكن لأدب الطفل أن يُشكل عقول أطفالنا، ويُنمي شخصياتهم، ويُغذي خيالهم، ويُعزز قيمهم.مع دأحلام عبد الرحيم، ستُغوص في أعماق هذا العالم الساحر، وتتعرف على تاريخه، وتستكشف أنواعه، وتُدرك أهميته في بناء جيلٍ واعيٍّ ومُبدعٍ.هل أنت مُستعدٌّ لمغامرةٍ جديدةٍ في عالم أدب الطفل؟ ... Read more

    PHP311.33

  • Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel

    Edited by Jeffrey Saks, Shalom Carmy ...
    Series series Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies Series
    "As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and ... Read more

    PHP1,209.89 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre

    Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959-1979)

    Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie's oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian, Euro-American, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian performance traditions and cinema. Beyzaie's work reformulates indigenous artistic and ritual forms and cultural narratives in plays and films whose emancipatory aesthetics have influenced several generations of writers, playwrights, ... Read more

    PHP1,921.69