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Instructions Within 2017 (English, Arabic, Paperback, New edition): Ashraf Fayadh Instructions Within 2017 (English, Arabic, Paperback, New edition)
Ashraf Fayadh; Translated by Mona Kareem, Mona Zaki, Jonathan Wright; Edited by Ammiel Alcalay, …
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
After Jews And Arabs - Remaking Levantine Culture (Paperback, New): Ammiel Alcalay After Jews And Arabs - Remaking Levantine Culture (Paperback, New)
Ammiel Alcalay
R936 R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Save R129 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book not only makes a significant contribution to the literature but, by breaking new ground, seeks to create a new frame of reference for further studies of the Mediterranean. Alcalay has pulled together many strands of scholarship to present a view of the Middle East that is starkly at odds with that put forth in the establishment press and academic journals - while taking care not to sacrifice the erudition and research, whether literary critical, historical or linguistic, that have traditionally sanctioned the orientalists' version of Levantine history in the service of Western control over the region. Ammiel Alcalay is a writer, translator, and poet living in New York City. Currently an associate professor of Classical and Oriental Literatures at Queens College (CUNY), he has written many articles on literary and historical politics in the cultures of the Mediterranean. "Ammiel Alcalay is a writer, translator, and poet living in New York City. Currently an associate professor of Classical and Oriental Literatures at Queens College (CUNY), he has written many articles on literary and historical politics in the cultures of the Mediterranean.".

Outcast (Paperback): Shimon Ballas Outcast (Paperback)
Shimon Ballas; Translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Oz Shelach
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Haroun Soussan, narrator of Outcast and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who's just completed his life's work, The Jews and History. The book opens with him getting an award from Saddam Hussein during the time of the Iran-Iraq war. Written in the form of an autobiography, the narrative moves in and out of the present, the recent, and more distant past, providing a unique and intimate chronicle of Iraq's contemporary political history. Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951.

Spring and Autumn Annals - A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie (Paperback): Diane Prima Spring and Autumn Annals - A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie (Paperback)
Diane Prima; Foreword by Ammiel Alcalay
R462 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary of her passing. In the autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol Factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, dramatic, and tragic death at the age of 29. In her shock and grief, di Prima began a daily practice of writing to Freddie. For a year, she would go to her study each day, light a stick of incense, and type furiously until it burned itself out. The narrative ranges over the decade from 1954-the year di Prima and Herko first met-to 1965, with occasional forays into di Prima's memories of growing up in Brooklyn. Lyrical, elegant, and nakedly honest, Spring and Autumn Annals is a moving tribute to a friendship, and to the extraordinary innovation and accomplishments of the period. Masterfully observed and passionately recorded, it offers a uniquely American portrait of the artist as a young woman in the heyday of bohemian New York City. One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2021. Praise for Spring and Autumn Annals: "The book is a treasure. Moving between the East Village, San Francisco, Topanga Canyon and Stinson Beach with young children, di Prima's life is unbelievably rich. She studies Greek, writes, prepares dinners and feasts, and co-edits Floating Bear magazine. Diane di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation, and this book offers a window into its lives."-Chris Kraus "Extolled by a writer who radically devoted herself to the experiential truth of beauty and intellect, in poverty and grace, in independent dignity, and in the community of Beat consciousness, Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals arrives as a long-lost charm of illuminated meditations to love, life, death, eros and selflessness. An essential 1960s text of visionary rapaciousness."-Thurston Moore "Freddie Herko wished for a third love before he died; and what a love is in this book's beholding, saying, and release. Di Prima's dancing narrative, propelled and circling at the speed of thought, picking up every name and detailed perception as a rolling tide, fills me with gratitude for the truth of her eye. Nothing gets past it, not even the 'ballet slippers letting in the snow.'"-Ana Bozicevic "A masterpiece of literary reflection, as quest to archive her dancer friend's life, to make art at all costs and the price dearly paid. Di Prima's observational capacity is profound, her devotion and loyalty assures her deserved place as a national treasure. She generously instills in us the call of poetic remembrance as an act of resistance, and gives voice to the marginalized participants in experimental cultural movements that carried courage in creative rebellion while envisioning freedom of the human spirit. Di Prima's poetic memoir of the artist journey is a triumph. A must read and reread for years to come."-Karen Finley

A Dove in Free Flight: Faraj Bayrakdar A Dove in Free Flight
Faraj Bayrakdar; Edited by Ammiel Alcalay, Shareah Taleghani
R541 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs (Paperback): Ammiel Alcalay A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs (Paperback)
Ammiel Alcalay
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Letters for Olson (Paperback): Benjamin Hollander Letters for Olson (Paperback)
Benjamin Hollander; Contributions by Etel Adnan, Ammiel Alcalay
R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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