Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology
10 best books like Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (Nathalie Handal): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Orientalism, Woman at Point Zero, The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir, Paroles, The Professor and the Siren, جدارية, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Representations of the Intellectual, Dancing Arabs
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
| Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
| ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...
| Author | Nawal El Saadawi |
| ISBN | 0862321107 |
“A new world was opening up in front of my eyes, a world which for me had not existed before. Maybe it had always been there, always existed, but I had never seen it, never realized it had been there all the time. How was it that I had been blind to its existence all these years?”- Nawal El Saadawi, Woman...
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 1627793445 |
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the...
| Author | Jacques Prévert |
| ISBN | 2070367622 |
Rappelle-toi Barbara
Il pleuvait sans cesse sur Brest ce jour là
Et tu marchais souriante
Épanouie ravie ruisselante
Sous la pluie
Rappelle-toi Barbara...
Oh Barbara
Quelle connerie la guerre
Qu'es-tu devenue maintenant
Sous cette pluie de fer
De...
The Professor and the Siren
| Author | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
| ISBN | 1590177193 |
In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in addition to his internationally celebrated novel, The Leopard, also composed three shorter pieces of fiction that confirm and expand our picture of his brilliant late-blooming talent.
In the parable-like...
| Author | Mahmoud Darwish |
| ISBN | 1855134969 |
"هزمتك يا موت الفنون جميعها"
هكذا وفي عبارة واحدة يكثف الشاعر محمود درويش في جداريته ما حاول أن يقوله بأساليب متنوعة على مدى هذه القصيدة - الديوان
إنها...
| Author | Vincent B. Leitch |
| ISBN | 0393974294 |
This book does offer a huge selection of important critics. It is nice and heavy, and has a cool dust cover. As an introduction to theory for students, however, it is a bit overwhelming and doesn't offer much in the way of engagement with texts that other lit crit anthologies, such as Shirley Staton's "Literary...
Representations of the Intellectual
| Author | Edward W. Said |
| ISBN | 0679761276 |
Celebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these six stunning essays - delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures - Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of...
| Author | Sayed Kashua |
| ISBN | 0802141269 |
A story born out of the tensions between Jewish and Arab Israelis, the debut novel by twenty-eight-year-old Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua has been praised around the world for its honesty, irony, humor, and its uniquely human portrayal of a young man who moves between two societies, becoming a stranger...
L'Arabe du futur 3 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1985-1987
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730943 |
Dans le premier tome publié en 2014 et qui couvre la période 1978-1984, le petit Riad est ballotté, de sa naissance à ses six ans, entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Le deuxième tome, paru en 2015, raconte sa première année d’école en Syrie (1984-1985).
Dans ce troisième...
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0805202412 |
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730544 |
Né d’un père syrien et d’une mère bretonne, Riad Sattouf raconte dans L’Arabe du futur sa jeunesse au Moyen-Orient.
Dans le premier tome (1978-1984), le petit Riad était ballotté entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Dans ce second tome, qui couvre la première année...
