Simply Lebanese: 30 Recipes from the Heart of Lebanon, Basma Ghada

Автор: Basma Abdel Aziz
Название: The queue :
ISBN: 1612195164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612195162
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "The Queue ... has drawn comparisons to Western classics like George Orwell's 1984 and The Trial by Franz Kafka. It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab Spring." -- The New York Times
Winner of the English PEN Translation Award

In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as 'the Gate' has risen to power in the aftermath of the 'Disgraceful Events, ' a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer.
Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter's health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia's health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet.
Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia's case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life.
Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.

Автор: Samman Ghada
Название: Capturing Freedom`s Cry: Arab Women Unveil Their Heart
ISBN: 1982217782 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982217785
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Описание: Capturing Freedom's Cry: Arab Women Unveil Their Heart is a poetry collection by Syrian-Lebanese poet and author, Ghada Samman, that is set in the early years of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1979). Written in Beirut amid the war's violence and published in Arabic as I'tikal Lahzah Haribah (Capturing a Fleeting Moment), containing over sixty poems, Capturing Freedom's Cry: Arab Women Unveil Their Heart provides a critical insider's perspective into the war's impact on personal and civic life and expresses the poet's contemporaneous experience. Samman unveils a courageous and relentless awareness of what war exacts from love relationships, and the struggle for precise, honest expression in the fleeting and wavering nature of war's intense experience. Embedded within many of Samman's poems is the theme of women's struggle for social and sexual freedom and an unyielding sense of hope and determination to persevere and see the nation return to peace once more. Capturing Freedom's Cry: Arab Women Unveil Their Heart provides a critical insider's perspective into the early years of the Lebanese Civil War. Samman, living in Beirut at the time, chose to stay through much of the war to convey the traumatic effects that conflicting interests, political powers, and societal influences had on life in Lebanon. In Samman's poems, the female narrators often assert their personal power and right to sexual freedom and love. Underlying is a call for a sexual and political revolution where the nation's freedom and women's liberation from patriarchal oppression are inseparable. A woman's longing for her beloved functions as a platform for exposing war's corruption and oppressive social and political ideologies governing women's sexuality. The poems embody an outspoken critique of socio-political strife and cultural disparity that continues to oppress women and use their bodies as political tools for reinforcing patriarchal structures and beliefs. Samman provides readers with an understanding of war that is mirrored by an internal struggle with existing gender roles and social norms embedded in the self. In Capturing Freedom's Cry: Arab Women Unveil Their Heart, Samman's narrators participate in this struggle as they assert their right to love and to own their bodies.

Автор: Basma Ghada
Название: Simply Lebanese: 30 Recipes from the Heart of Lebanon
ISBN: 1388803577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781388803575
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 36620.00 T
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