A stream of confession about a life and the history of Lebanon in which this life is lived. A great many things merge and melt into one another. There is the change of outlook of the village population on the world and the universe - is the earth flat or round as they say on television. There is the younger generation looking towards Beirut. There is the feeling of growing up in a time torn between great expectations and mounting political tensions. There is the struggle, within the central character, between philosophy of a neatly classifiable world and society and the palpable reality of a dirty war that leads in the end to the pseudo-death of the narrator. There are reflections on the daily language and the ideology attached to it. There are recollections, both bitter and sweet, harsh and tender, about Beirut and Lebanon as it was and as it could have been.

Dear Mr. Kawabata

Literature & Fiction

Starkey, Paul

Daif, Rashid Al

Literary

Quartet Books Ltd.

In this succinct introduction to modern Arabic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Paul Starkey traces its development from the medieval Arabic literary tradition―beginning in the sixth-century with nomadic Bedouin poetry and the Qur'an―through new literary forms adapted from Western imaginative literature. He explores the interaction between social, political, and cultural change in the Middle East and northern Africa and the development of a modern Arabic literary tradition. From the early nineteenth century through World War I, the Western genres of poetry, the novel, short story, and drama reached various parts of the Arabic-speaking world. Starkey discusses the resultant evolution of Arabic literature in separate sections on poetry, prose writing, and the theatre in Egypt, the Levant, Iraq, and northern Africa, from early contact through the emergence of women's literary voices in the 1960s to contemporary writers.Arabic terms are presented in transcription, and an extensive bibliography provides suggestions for further reading. Modern Arabic Literature is the perfect introduction for readers interested in the contemporary Middle East or in comparative, colonial, world, or modern literature.

Modern Arabic Literature (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)

Edinburgh University Press

Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature)

This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in its social, historical and political setting.

Egypt and the Near East have enchanted many people over the centuries. Travellers from the West have journeyed to this region for a variety of motives: in pursuit of knowledge, power, diplomacy and trade, for pleasure and adventure, on pilgrimage, and to plunder and discover the exotic - or sometimes simply to discover themselves. Some have been influenced more than others by what they saw; bringing back tangible evidence of their visits, in the form of antiquities or other collectors' items; others have used their observations and experiences for their own literary and artistic ends. This collection of papers has its origin in the conference "Travellers to Egypt and the Near East" held at St Catherine's College, Oxford in July 1997. They are arranged approximately in chronological order - though with so many common themes running through them, a strict sequence according to a single criterion has proved almost impossible. In addition to the chronological sequence, the reader will detect a number of common themes - religion, gender, economics, colonialism, perceptions of literature and art and so forth that haunt the essays and form webs of interconnection between them. The papers included in this volume range from those on Mary Wortley Montagu and James Silk Buckingham to the grand tour phenomenon and the ruins of Sardis. These essays provide an array of perspectives on a set of historical, literary and cultural relationships about which debate is certain to continue well into the twenty-first century.

Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East

History

Middle East

Ithaca

Egypt and the Near East have enchanted many people over the centuries. Travellers from the West have journeyed to this region for a variety of motives: in pursuit of knowledge, power, diplomacy and trade, for pleasure and adventure, on pilgrimage, and to plunder and discover the exotic - or sometimes simply to discover themselves. Some have been influenced more than others by what they saw, bringing back tangible evidence of their visits in the form of antiquities or other collectors' items; many have used their observations and experiences for their own literary and artistic ends. This collection of papers has its origin in the conference "Travellers to Egypt and the Near East" held at St Catherine's College, Oxford in July 1997. They are arranged approximately in chronological order - though with so many common themes running through them, a strict sequence according to a single criterion has proved almost impossible. In addition to the chronological sequence, the reader will detect a number of common themes - religion, gender, economics, colonialism, perceptions of literature and art and so forth that haunt the essays and form webs of interconnection between them. The papers included in this volume range from those on Carl Haag and Gertrude Bell to gender politics in a colonial context. These essays provide a fascinating array of perspectives on a set of historical, literary and cultural relationships about which debate is certain to continue well into the twenty-first century.

Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East (Durham Middle East Monographs S)

Starkey, Janet

Ithaca Press

This is the final volume of three books containing papers from the ASTENE conference at Cambridge in 1999. The theme of this title is the 18th and 19th Century European fascination with Egypt. This interest had begun during the Enlightenment and was fuelled by the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon in 1798. For many Europeans of this age, Egypt represented all the exoticism, sensuality and mystery of the Orient, and these nine papers (one of which is in French) seek to explore this relationship. Contents: A public pageant in 1806: Lord Valentia visits Egypt (Deborah Manley); Berths under the Highest Stars: Henry William Beechey in Egypt 1816-1819 (Patricia Usick); Florence Nightingale's Letters from Egypt (Loubna Youssef); Preparing to be an Egyptologist: Amelia Edwards before 1873 (Joan Rees); Rameses III, Giovanni Belzoni and the Mysterious Reverend Browne (Penelope Wilson); A House, a museum and a legend: Bait al-Kretliya (The Gayer-Anderson Mummy) (Iain Gordon Brown); Silent travellers, articulate mummies: 'Mummy Pettigrew' and the Discourse of the Dead (Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim); Les detours fictionnels du recit de voyage: Le Nil, Egypte et Nubie de Maxime du Camp (Veronique Magri-Mourges).

Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers (Astene Publications)

El Kholy, Nadia

Ancient Civilizations

Astene

WHAT HAS TWO HEADS, TEN EYES, AND TERRIFYING TABLE MANNERS? features more than a dozen never-before-published short stories that combine Horror and Science Fiction elements.**
These original tales, written by some of the best new genre authors, range from the horrifying to the humorous, the thought-provoking to the thought-twisting. All are devilishly entertaining.
Read about... A microwave leading to another dimension! An angry little girl harboring a hungry evil! A spaceship with mythical beast stowaways! A woman who gives up sleep, and her sanity! An aging starlet who makes the ultimate flesh sacrifice! And much more!
If you enjoy movies like ALIEN, THE THING, EVENT HORIZON, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, and PHANTASM, you'll love WHAT HAS TWO HEADS, TEN EYES, AND TERRIFYING TABLE MANNERS?!
**Print Edition contains two bonus stories, written by Sawney Hatton and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, not appearing in digital edition!

What Has Two Heads, Ten Eyes, and Terrifying Table Manners?: An Anthology of Science Fiction Horror

Hatton, Sawney

McCormick, James Austin

Edmunds, Catherine

Kleaton, Thomas

KC Grifant

Collia, Frank

Lamb, Lisamarie

Purcell, Evan

Billings, Steve

Hale, Daniel

Shaarawi, Lizz-Ayn

Pienaar, Ben

Liberato, Vince

Hurd, Ashley Norris

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Genre Fiction

Dark Park Publishing

Our tenth issue brings you the fantastic: Eddie Generous with his tale of a "Sunday Speed Trap," the ensuing police chase, and maybe some ritual sacrifice to ancient Old Ones. E.F. Sweetman with her tale of ecological horror on the high seas and a narrator who says, "Hello from Garbage Island."Joanna Maciejewska's "Yet Another Vessel" where we encounter terrifying enchanted artifacts and the kinds of psychopathic individuals who seek them out. Brian McNett's "Armageddon and the Way Out West" where he introduces us to Doctor Thaddeus Armageddon and his helmsman Delrick Borograve in their exploits through the Wild West aboard the skyship Devastation.Paul Alex Gray and his tale of artificial intelligence, giant mecha, and romance, "Battle Borne Dreams Never Die." Julie Rea, who takes us to the flooded future of 2202, where scavengers "Lela and Bat" comb through the remains of Philadelphia. Joshua Grasso's "Barbarians in the Boudoir" where we see the magician Hildigrim, previously imprisoned for black magic, paroled but only so he can help the Archduke avert a war with barbarians from a far distant land.Paul Starkey's "Below Noon," a tale of existential horror in the Wild West, as a man comes to grips with the reality of Hell.Patrick S. Baker, who takes us home with the further adventures of the warrior hero Kauahoa, as he takes on "The Cannibals in the Mist.

Broadswords and Blasters Issue 10: Pulp Magazine With Modern Sensibilities

Generous, Eddie

Maciejewska, Joanna

Mount, Cameron

Baker, Patrick S.

Rea, Julie

McNett, Brian

Sweetman, E.F.

Gray, Paul Alex

Grasso, Joshua

Short Stories & Anthologies

Independently published

This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in its social, historical and political setting.

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