Middle Eastern category: 410 books

This is one in a series of 20 short cookbooks for international food lovers everywhere. It showcases traditional and popular dishes from 20 different countries. A collection of all 20 in one file is also available.The format is buffet style, whereby all the dishes from one particular country are placed...

This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It suggests that, unlike...

Découvrez la cuisine orientale avec ces plats traditionnels et familiaux, des recettes originales et délicieuses pour le bonheur de la famille et des amis, laissez-vous envouter par l'orient et sa cuisine colorée et chaleureuse. certaines recettes sont illustrées pour un plus grand plaisir.

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Né en 1922, au moment où la Turquie est sur le point d’achever sa guerre d’indépendance, Yachar Kemal a vécu de près, dans la région des monts Taurus, au sud-est du pays, les situations qu’il décrit. Une...

Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting...

The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such perceptions do not reflect the complex evolution of Iranian identity that occurred in the years following...

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton’s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton’s works, and in particular, to his epic poem: Paradise Lost. It contributes to knowledge of the history, development, and...

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,...

Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy.  A Sea of Languages brings together...

The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul's analysis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to the study...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis En recevant le prix Nobel de littérature, en 1988, le romancier égyptien Naghib Mahfouz (1911-2006) donnait aux lettres arabes une reconnaissance internationale. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique,...

Exploring the relationship between fiction and nation formation in the Muslim world through 12 unique studies from Azerbaijan, Libya, Iran, Algeria, and Yemen, amongst others, this book shows how fiction reflects and relates the complex entanglements of nation, religion, and modernity in the process of political and cultural identity formation.

This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of...

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