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The Room and the World

Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn is the first book of its kind to explore and unpack the Pulitzer winning poet’s oeuvre. Including 24 essays, a preface by poet and essayist Smith, and an introduction by McCullough, this anthology illuminates Dunn’s development as a writer,...
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Mahmoud Darwish

The Poet's Art and His Nation

by Khaled Mattawa
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish’s aesthetics have played a crucial...
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The Story of Joseph

A Fourteenth-Century Turkish Morality Play by Sheyyad Hamza

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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

At the heart of this volume is the translation of a fourteenth-century Turkish version of the Joseph story, better known to Western readers from the version in Genesis, first book of the Hebrew Bible. Hickman provides us with a new lens: we see the drama of the Old Testament prophet Joseph, son of...
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The Ideal Refugees

Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival

by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely secular and democratic spaces, and characterized by gender equality. Drawing on extensive research with...
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The Desert

Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali al-Mammi

by Albert Memmi
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late fourteenth century. Fighting battles in the service of kings and narrowly escaping imprisonment, the...
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by Ahmet Mithat Efendi, A. Holly Shissler
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016

Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s famous 1875 novel Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrounds. Râkim Efendi is an erudite, self-made man, one who is ambitious and cultivated enough to mingle...
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Dance Lessons

A Novel

by Áine Greaney
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011

A year after her husband’s death in a sailing accident off Martha’s Vineyard, Ellen Boisvert bumps into an old friend. In this chance encounter, she discovers that her immigrant husband of almost fifteen years was not an orphan after all. Instead, his aged mother Jo is alive and residing on the...
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"Off the Straight Path"

Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo

by Elyse Semerdijan
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008

The legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women’s studies. Important questions about the relationship between sexuality and the law and about the societies enforcing that relationship are rarely addressed in the current...
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