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  • The True Dream

    Indictment of the Shiite clerics of Isfahan, an English translation with facing Persian text

    Edited by Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Sen McGlinn ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    The True Dream is a Persian satirical drama set in Isfahan in the lead up to Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11. Although its three authors hail from the clerical class, they criticize the arrogance, corruption and secularity of the Iranian ruling dynasty and clergy, taking Isfahan as their example. The work blends fact and fiction by summoning the prominent men of the city to account for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by William Walker Atkinson ...
    Dive into the ancient wisdom of breath control and harness the power of your respiratory system with "The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath" by William Walker Atkinson. This enlightening ebook unveils the secrets behind the practices that have allowed yogis to achieve extraordinary levels of physical and spiritual well-being for centuries. William Walker Atkinson, a pioneer in bringing Eastern ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Secrets of the Self

    by Muhammad Iqbal ...
    The Secrets of the Selfby Muhammad Iqbal, tr. by Reynold A. NicholsonA philosophical poem by the intellectual founder of the nation of Pakistan.Asrar I Khudi. The form of existence is an effect of the Self. Whatsoever thou seest is a secret of the Self.The Asrár-i Khudí was first published at Lahore in 1915. I read it soon afterwards and thought so highly of it that I wrote to Iqbal, whom I had ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Song of the Caged Bird

    Words as Resistance in Palestine

    by Marcello Di Cintio ...
    For political readers and anyone invested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Marcello Di Cintio's Song of the Caged Bird is a refreshing look at Palestinian resistance--through literature and the power of books.When Marcello Di Cintio began teaching at the Palestine Writing Workshop in Ramallah, he avoided making reference to the occupation in his assignments at first--to see if his students ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Dune's Twisted Edge

    Journeys in the Levant

    by Gabriel Levin ...
    “How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures . . . trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once known with mingled affection and wariness as Levantine?” So begins poet Gabriel Levin in his journeys in the Levant, the exotic land that stands at ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • DAVID OF SASSUN

    NATIONAL EPOS OF ARMENIA

    by F.B. Collins (Translator) ...
    This volume is an essential reading for all who love literature, especially for those who would like to familiar themselves with the essence of the Armenian literature. The David of Sassoun (Sasountsi David - Սասունցի Դավիթ) heroic tail will bring back the nostalgic feelings associated with revisiting the Armenian classic literature. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

    New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘?mmiyya

    by N. Radwan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Wedded to the Land?

    Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis

    by Mary N. Layoun, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study: Greek refugees’ displacement from Asia Minor into Greece in 1922, the 1974 right-wing Cypriot coup ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Arabic Literature

    An Overview

    by Pierre Cachia ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually treated separately, are presented together. Cachia's observations are not subordinated to any pre-formed literary theory, but describe and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

    A Postcolonial Outlook

    Edited by Walid El Hamamsy, Mounira Soliman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Women Write Iran

    Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

    by Nima Naghibi ...
    Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

    by Jeffrey Sacks ...
    In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El ... Read more

    $35.99 USD