Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures
Author : Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Baghdad (Iraq)
ISBN : 9781913043117
Author : Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Baghdad (Iraq)
ISBN : 9781913043117
Author : FADHIL. AL-ESSA AL-AZZAWI (BOTHAYNA. AL QARMALAWI, AHMAD.)
Publisher : Banipal Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781913043018
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN :
Author : Inaam Kachachi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623710812
"We let ourselves be won over by this novel that describes with such faithfulness and emotion the tearing apart of a country and a woman forever caught between two shores." ‚ÄîLe Monde "Full of poetry and freshness‚Ķ" ‚ÄîGuide de la rentree litteraire, Lire/Virgin WINNER OF FRANCE’S THE LAGARDERE PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE OF ARABIC FICTIONRAISES IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ABOUT IDENTITY, BELONGING, AND PATRIOTISM In her award-winning novel, Inaam Kachachi portrays the dual tragedy of her native land: America’s failure and the humiliation of Iraq. The American Granddaughter depicts the American occupation of Iraq through the eyes of a young Iraqi-American woman, who returns to her country as an interpreter for the US Army. Through the narrator’s conflicting emotions, we see the tragedy of a country which, having battled to emerge from dictatorship, then finds itself under foreign occupation. At the beginning of America’s occupation of Iraq, Zeina returns to her war-torn homeland as an interpreter for the US Army. Her formidable grandmother—the only family member that Zeina believes she has in Iraq—gravely disapproves of her granddaughter’s actions. Then Zeina meets Haider and Muhaymin, two “brothers” she knows nothing of, and falls deeply in love with Muhaymin, a militant in the Al Mehdi Army. These experiences force her to question all her values.
Author : Tayeb Salih
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2020-04-27
Category :
ISBN : 9780995636989
Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif Bastawrous, sometimes known as Michael Joseph and sometimes as Ahmed Mansi Yousif. Playing Hardy to Salih's Laurel Mansi takes centre stage among memorable 20th-century arts and political figures, including Samuel Beckett, Margot Fonteyn, Omar Sharif, Arnold Toynbee, Richard Crossman and even the Queen, but always with Salih's poet "Master" al-Mutanabbi ready with an adroit comment. "Mansi casts fresh light on the experiences and attitudes of a key generation of emigré and exiled Arab writers, thinkers and activists in the West" - Boyd Tonkin
Author : D. A. Powell
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1555973507
D. A. Powell's first three groundbreaking books Published together for the first time, D. A. Powell's landmark trilogy of Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails make up a three-course Divine Comedy for our day. With a new introduction by novelist David Leavitt, Repast presents a major achievement in contemporary poetry.
Author : Fāḍil ʻAzzāwī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789774161421
Being plucked from a Baghdad café and deposited in a cell block for political prisoners is a wakeup call for Aziz, the novel's hero and narrator, a young man who has been living on automatic pilot--as if he were a guest visiting his own life--and he is finally forced to come to terms with the flawed world we inhabit and shape. Although never charged with any offense, he must adjust to a lengthy stay in prison, where he is befriended by Salam the yard boss, Mun'im an idealistic university student with a beautiful sister named Salwa, Yusuf an idealist dispatched to the 'Swamp, ' Salman an anarchist schoolteacher, and Mustafa an aged farmer who dreams of an alternative society. While these imprisoned revolutionaries teach Aziz to dream that an ideal city with his name on it may lie just over the horizon, the police supervisor encourages him to think of a simple crime to which he can confess so he can be charged and eventually released. Based on the author's own incarceration in Iraq, Cell Block Five is a clear-headed, good-humored tribute to the prison's men--both the inmates and the guards--and an indictment of man's gratuitous inhumanity to man, pointing out that the transition from abused to abuser, tortured to torturer, can be an easy one. Written in 1971 and published outside Iraq in 1972, Cell Block Five--the first Iraqi prison novel--was later made into a feature film in Syria. Drawing the reader subtly into the political section of an Iraqi prison, this compelling story easily transcends cultural boundaries.
Author : Fāḍil ʻAzzāwī
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781929918454
This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility. Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London. Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's Questions and Their Retinue and Saddi Youssef's Without an Alphabet, Without a Face.
Author : Amjad Nāṣir
Publisher : Banipal Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Arabic poetry
ISBN : 9780954966683
'Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poets Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.
Author : Aria Minu-Sepehr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451652194
Biography & autobiography.