Middle Eastern category: 410 books

This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’,...

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners...

Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra.

Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel...

Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism...

The subject of this book is a new “Islam.” This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at...

We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature, far from serving...

This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science...

Habibi and Kashua: Nationality, Language, History and the Search for Identity. The Secret Life of Saeed, the ill-ated Pessoptimist: a Palestinian who Became a Citizen of Israel (1982) and Dancing Arabs (2004). First of all, this essay will deal with the definition of the Arab-Israelis as a minority...

There are few hobbies that can compare with the delights of making your own wine. Using only natural ingredients; flowers, berries fruits, leaves and vegetables.I am now well over 80 years old, a countryman through and through, I have been making wine since I was a young lad, following the...

“A cookbook by Paula Wolfert is cause for celebration. Ms. Wolfert may be America’s most knowledgeable food person and her books are full of insight, passion and brilliance.” —Anthony Dias Blue, CBS Radio, NY “I think she’s one of the finest and most influential food writers in...

Moroc Cuisine is a cookbook which contains recipes from North Africa. Cook traditional Moroccan Tagines, kebabs, fish, chicken, lamb dishes or make deserts to eat with traditional flavoured teas. An ideal cookbook for your ebook collection.

A cookbook full of the delights of Portuguese cuisine. Recipes include traditional soups, side dishes, fish and meat dishes and deserts. A book full of dishes with african and moorish influences, combining health ingredients to dance on the taste buds.

"Her first cookbook, Silk Road Vegetarian, …is a thoughtful and delicious collection of gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan recipes celebrating the foods of the Silk Road" —The Food Network Discover the secrets of healthy and sustainable eating that have been practiced along the...