After Jews And Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture

Alcalay (Hebrew literature, City U. of New York) argues that the very elements of the historical relations between Jews and Arabs, and the nature of the Levant itself, provide tools for resolving the current situation in the Middle East. His sections cover discontinued lines drafts for an itinerary,

History

Alcalay, Ammiel

Middle East

Univ. of Minnesota Press

ALCALAY, A.: AFTER JEWS AND ARABS. REMAKING LEVANTINE CULTURE. MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 1993, xi 336 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice.
As a poet, translator, critic and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New Republic and Middle East Report, as well as for such literary journals as Grand Street, Conjunctions and Paper Air. In Memories of Our Future, the unique intellectual and political path forged by Alcalay over the past fifteen years has now been collected in one volume. In a mix of personal narrative, political commentary and literary criticism, Alcalay surveys diverse subjects, among them Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the war in Bosnia.
"In the truest sense, the essays in Memories of Our Future bear witness to events and ideas that shape the world. Poet, translator, scholar, Ammiel Alcalay brings to any subject an acute sensitivity to writing and a sophisticated understanding of the way politics works to produce and maintain literature. Whether thinking about diaspora, memory, modernism, sacred texts, or Juan Goytisolo, he attends to voices that are excluded or silenced. Ammiel Alcalay is a unique and important figure in contemporary world literature."—Lynne Tillman, author of No Lease On Life
"Few contemporary intellectuals can boast of as diverse a range of skills and talents as Ammiel Alcalay. His work is cosmopolitan in the best sense: in an epoch of superficial globalism his approach to the cultures he deals with is always rigorous, always meticulously respectful of particularities and differences. Unlike many contemporary literary theoreticians, he is also profoundly alive to the social and political realities that shape cultural production. There is no one better qualified to explore the meaning of today's 'culture wars', locally and globally."—Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace
"An outstanding anthology of essays surveying the complexities of Mediterranean cultures; the diverse, changing space of the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa—areas of diasporas, dislocations, and genocidal exterminations provoked by nationalism and religious fanaticism. Of special interest are his observations and analysis of the Israeli/Palestinian confrontation, Arab/Jewish poetics, and Jewish identity in America."—Midwest Book Review
Ammiel Alcalay is poet, translator, critic and scholar who teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of, among other books, After Jews and Arabs (1993) The Cairo Notebooks (1993) Memories of Our Future (1999) From the Warring Factions (2002) Scrapmetal (2007) and A Little History (2010). He was one of the initiators of the Poetry Is News Coalition, and helped to organize the Olson Now project. He launched Lost &amp; Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a publishing venture whose mission is to retrieve and make available key texts falling widely under the rubric of the New American Poetry.

Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays 1982-1999

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

City Lights Publishers

Enigmatic and multi-layered, Islanders is about finding one’s own hard-won truth. A young man’s indelible memories of the struggle to find intimacy—formative experiences like the ebb and flow of friendships, love, and ordinary workaday life—are viewed through a lens of nostalgic longing and hard-eyed realism as he attempts to come to terms with the past. Set during the cataclysm of the last years of the war in Vietnam, in a landscape that shifts between the bleak fishing towns of the Atlantic coast to the ruined cities of the Northeast, Islanders explores the classic theme of identity’s intricate relationship to place.

Islanders

United States

A collection of personal vignettes focuses on the men, women, and children of Sarajevo who have remained in their war-torn city in order to live as close to normal lives as possible. By the author of Sarajevo: A War Journal. IP.

Portraits of Sarajevo

Dizdarevic, Zlatko

Ridjanovic, Midhat

Americas

Fromm Intl

Poetry. Cross-Genre. Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. THE CAIRO NOTEBOOKS, a collection of travel writing by Ammiel Alcalay, blurs the lines between fiction, poetry, and documentation. "There is in what you hear of these CAIRO NOTEBOOKS the cruelty of compassion, the pain of love, the tearing apart of fateful encounters. Here, a novel, a poem, are fused like the impossible couplings they portray. Poetry, history and fiction come together so that they can, further down, be broken into parts, again, anew. All that makes the tragic pulse of the Arab East is here charted on the map of a real and still 'ideal' city, the way it is charted on the bodies of the tortured and dead"—Etel Adnan.

The Cairo Notebooks

Poetry

Singing Horse Press

The long awaited 2nd edition of from the warring factions brings back into print Ammiel Alcalay's book-length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, site of the massacre of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. This daring blend of lyric and document remaps the world we inherit, from native New England to the Roman Empire, from the Gulf War to Palestine and the Balkans. The late Adrienne Rich has called from the warring factions the "kind of poem I've been waiting to read." And in her new introduction, Diane di Prima writes "This book forced me to redefine my life." Accompanied by an extensive discussion between Alcalay and poet Benjamin Hollander, as well as a new preface by the author, this edition brings an essential text of the post-9/11 world back into the conversation.

from the warring factions

UpSet Press

Poet, novelist, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay is Deputy Chair of the PhD Program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and former chair of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures at Queens College. He is the founder and general editor, under the auspices of the PhD program in English and the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and has edited texts by Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima, and Joanne Kyger for the series.

A little history

Essays & Correspondence

Poetry. Between a Cadillac and a Valiant sitting idly in the snow, Ammiel Alcalay's SCRAPMETAL takes a provisional journey through the experience of work and the untangling of vampiric forces that sever life from our record of it. Part primer and part example, SCRAPMETAL offers a method of attacking the "inflationary poetics" that deafen us in the "steady hum of overproduction."

Scrapmetal

Factory School

Lost & Found: Series VIII (Lost & Found, 8)

CORTAZAR,JULIO

Pietri, Pedro

Di Prima, Diane

RUKEYSER, Muriel

The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY

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After Jews And Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture

After Jews And Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture

Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays 1982-1999

Islanders

Portraits of Sarajevo

The Cairo Notebooks

from the warring factions

A little history

Scrapmetal

Lost & Found: Series VIII (Lost & Found, 8)