Search results for “[subject: arabic]”

• Author(s): Daniel C. Kurtzer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineEach phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own righ...

• Author(s): Sharron Gu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle Eastern This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual p...

• Author(s): Bouthaina Shaaban • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesSyrian feminist activist Bouthaina Shaaban revisits Both Right and Left Handed, her widely admired book bas...

• Author(s): Laila Familiar | Hoda Barakat • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: AfricanSayyidi wa Habibi (My Master and My Love) is a novel by acclaimed Lebanese author Hoda Barakat, a...

• Author(s): Marwan Bishara • Publisher: Bold Type Books • Publisher Imprint: Bold Type Books • BISAC: World - Middle EasternThe Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jaze...

• Author(s): Muhsin Al-Musawi • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Middle EasternIslam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in trac...

• Author(s): Shireen T. Hunter • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: World - Middle EasternBy highlighting the complex set of factors and their interactions that have sh...

• Author(s): Fay Afaf Kanafani • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: WomenA rare feminist perspective on a people and a culture in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, Nadia, Captive of Hope is the autobiograp...

• Author(s): Samuel Noble | Alexander Treiger • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - OrthodoxAll of the texts chosen for this volume are interesting in their...

• Author(s): Michael Malek Najjar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with con...

• Author(s): Jim Al-Khalili • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. ...

• Author(s): Ussama Makdisi • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Ministry - MissionsThe complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people r...

• Author(s): Nurfadzilah Yahaya • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - AsianThis wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of ...

• Author(s): Kata Moser | Urs Gösken | Josh Michael Hayes • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis volume offers insights into a unique p...

• Author(s): Anne-Emmanuelle Berger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFor decades the superimposition of languages in Algeria has had growing cultural and po...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Layla Al-Zubaidi • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: EssaysAn English PEN Award-winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring As revolution swept through ...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Nathan J. Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesThroughout the Arab world, Islamist political movements are joining the electoral proce...

• Author(s): John U. Wolff • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)Includes an Indonesian-English glossary (over 3,700 words...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Abdellah Taia • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: LGBTQ+ - GayAn autobiographical coming-of-age novel by the the "only gay man" in Morocco.An autobiographical novel by turn naïve and cunning, funny a...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): M. C. Lyons • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyOn the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I c...

• Author(s): Tarif Khalidi • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Islam - Koran & Sacred WritingsA landmark new translation of the sacred text of Islam in an elegant deluxe edition Literally "the recitation," T...

• Author(s): Ibn Fadlan • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesA fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translationBetween the ninth and fourteenth cent...

• Author(s): Idries Shah • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyFrom the Back CoverThis delightful collection of teaching stories in which Mulla Nasrudin is the main actor is both an outstan...