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  • Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline

    Love and Conflict

    Edited by Roberta Morano, Janet C.E. Watson, James Dickins ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Arabic Linguistics
    Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline investigates popular literary responses to conflict in the different regions of Yemen, comparing responses to, and expressions of, traditional conflict with those to the new externally fuelled conflict.In its engagement with diasporic Yemeni communities in the UK, the book explores how storytelling and poetry might heighten and enhance both political and public ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia

    Edited by Dr Janet C.E. Watson, Dr Jon C. Lovett, Roberta Morano ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
    Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the relationship between language and ecology is both symbiotic and spatially and temporally determined. This volume examines the expressions of, and threats and challenges to, this relationship in southern and eastern Arabia.Exploring the ways in which indigenous languages ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    Art and Culture from the Frontline

    Edited by Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen, Nawara Mahfoud ...
    In Syria, culture has become the critical line of defence against tyranny. Villagers have joined the cultural frontline alongside urban intellectuals, artists, writers and filmmakers and to create art and literature that challenge official narratives. With contributions by over fifty artists and writers, both established and emerging, Syria Speaks explores the explosion of creativity and free ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Arab Poetics

    by Adonis ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    Poetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book, one of the foremost Arab poets reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry, as well as the relationship between Arabic poetry and the Qur'an, and between poetry and thought. Adonis also assesses the challenges of modernism and the impact of western culture on the Arab poetic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

    Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

    Edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Nasrin Rahimieh ...
    The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Four decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, "Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran" brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The Sumerian World

    Edited by Harriet Crawford ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and the natural sciences. This broad treatment will also make the volume of interest to students looking ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Bullet, Paper, Rock

    A Memoir of Words and Wars

    by Abbas El-Zein ...
    A story of survival, and a meditation on desire and loss, language and violenceIn Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound – either tragic or amusing, sometimes both – between teachers and students, left- and right-wing factions, civilians and militiamen and, not least, French and Arabic, two languages vying for primacy in the post-colonial worlds of Beirut and the Levant, with English coming ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • First Migrants

    Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

    by Peter Bellwood ...
    The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways.The first volume to chart global human migration and ... Read more

    $89.00 USD

  • The Five-Million-Year Odyssey

    The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture

    by Peter Bellwood ...
    The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans became incredibly diverse in appearance, language, and culture. How did all of this happen? In ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices

    by Marlé Hammond ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    The Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms covers the most important literary terms relevant to classical and modern Arabic literature. Its 300+ entries include technical terms and rhetorical devices, themes and motifs, concepts, historical eras, literary schools and movements, forms and genres, figures and institutions. Defining terms such as 'root-play', highlighting schools such as the Mahjar ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Before the Pharaohs

    Exploring the Archaeology of Stone Age Egypt

    by Julian Maxwell Heath ...
    An examination of the Paleolithic and Neolithic communities that inhabited not only the Nile Valley and Delta, but also the Western and Eastern Deserts.The remarkable archaeology of pharaonic Egypt continues to captivate countless people worldwide but evidence for Egypt's prehistoric or Stone Age past has been relatively neglected. This is perhaps understandable, as the archaeology of Stone Age ... Read more

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