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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...

Helping Hands
Helping Hands
By: Margo Wayman on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Children and Young Adult

Aziz the crocodile was lying in the soft black dirt along the banks of the Nile River. He was enjoying the feeling of warmth from the sun beating down on his dark, olive green hide. He yawned, opened...

Headaches For Hakim
Headaches For Hakim
By: Margo Wayman on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Children and Young Adult

Hakim was the biggest, noisiest, and laziest of all the hippos in the river. While the rest of the hippos swam, ate, and played, Hakim would sleep.The others were always getting angry with him because...

All out of Royal Jelly
All out of Royal Jelly
By: Margo Wayman on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Children and Young Adult

"Where is my royal jelly?" roared Queen Alia, angrily. "I am all out of my favorite jelly!" Her voice echoed throughout the hive, frightening all the worker bees. When the Queen wa...

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