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Nights At the Circus Reading The Semiotics of A Title
Nights At the Circus Reading The Semiotics of A Title
By: Saleh Razzouk on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

This is a reflection on : Nights At The Circus , Novel by Angela Carter , 295p., Cover desighned by : Dominic Davies, Vintage Books , UK. If the title is not the cork-plug of the text, is informat...

The Cucumber and the Cactus (A Palestinian Christian Story)
The Cucumber and the Cactus (A Palestinian Christian Story)
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

There is something uniquely spiritual, yet uniquely primeval, in people connected to a land. Even for those of us who work in a sophisticated and mobile culture, simply to get our hands into the earth...

Performance Poetry with Reference to Agnes Meadows and her Palestinian Poems
Performance Poetry with Reference to Agnes Meadows and her Palestinian Poems
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

In our way, we’re the recorders of history right now: AIDS, racism, sexism, homophobia. Kevin Powell -- Don’t Feel No Way. “I say what I think ... I write what I see.” Agn...

Troubadour Poetry: An Intercultural Experience
Troubadour Poetry: An Intercultural Experience
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

ABSTRACT: This is a reading of the intercultural experience of the medieval poetry known as the Troubadour poetry. It’s a study of the origin, meaning, music and structure of the lyric love poe...

England and the East in James Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan
England and the East in James Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

In the depth of this Oriental Stage stands a prodigious cultural repertoire whose individual items evoke a fabu-lously rich world: the Sphinx, Cleopatra, Eden, Troy, Sodom and Gomorrah, Astarte, Isis...

Humanism, Nationalism and History in Michael Davitt's Gaelic Poem "O My Two Palestinians"
Humanism, Nationalism and History in Michael Davitt's Gaelic Poem "O My Two Palestinians"
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

The poetic calling develops out of a pact made between people and poet; hence the power of such invocations to an actual poem ... (1) Michael Davitt (1950-2005) is a contemporary Irish stage producer...

Hassan Karmi Passes Away but His Culture Lives On
Hassan Karmi Passes Away but His Culture Lives On
By: Marwan Asmar on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Biography

Today, and every time I pass his house in Amman, I think to myself, a great man used to live here! Sadly, and I don't want it to do that, his memory seems to fade further and further away every da...

Anti-colonialism vs Colonialism in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave
Anti-colonialism vs Colonialism in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave
By: Said Abdelwahed on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

Give Africa a Black colonial power.   The Sunday Telegraph Aphra Behn’s novel [Oroonoko] confronts the ownership of Africa by the British, the ownership of American land by European...

The Positive Disorder in Tawfiq El- Hakim’s Not a Thing Out of Place
The Positive Disorder in Tawfiq El- Hakim’s Not a Thing Out of Place
By: Mona Hashish on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Literary Studies

Abstract The research throws light on the Egyptian playwright Tawfiq Al- Hakim (1898- 1987) who is a leading Arabic dramatist of the Arab world. Before the Arabs thought of theater as a medium of A...

Hot Sand, Sore Feet
Hot Sand, Sore Feet
By: Margo Wayman on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Children and Young Adult

Raqib, the lizard, lived in a small hole that had been carved into a boulder by the howling desert winds. There were many large boulders scattered around the area, all of them sat sizzling in the hot...

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