by Samia Mehrez of Cornell University. This course is primarily concerned with developing oral skills. The entire text is in transliteration; Arabic script is not used, so your attention is focused exclusively on mastering a new and intricate phonetic system. This program is designed to bridge the gap that exists between highly technical Arabic grammars, meant for the specialized student of Arabic, and simple phrasebooks of basic sentences that are unsatisfactory for the purpose of real communication. The course has been tested with a group of foreign engineers and business people in Cairo,...
by Samia Mehrez of Cornell University. This course is primarily concerned with developing oral skills. The entire text is in transliteration; Arabic s...
Abd al-Hakim Qasim (1935-1990), one of modern Egypt's great novelists, began writing short stories while imprisoned for his leftwing politics under the Nasser regime in the 1960s. This period in Qasim's life, along with his subsequent exile in Germany and his opposition to the Camp David agreement, led him to avoid political commentary in his writing. He focused on people and events in the Egyptian village and the down-to-earth Sufi Islam practiced there. Still, the history of his political beliefs ensured his work would remain controversial, and most was published abroad in Beirut or...
Abd al-Hakim Qasim (1935-1990), one of modern Egypt's great novelists, began writing short stories while imprisoned for his leftwing politics under th...
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts.
Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of...
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstr...
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts.
Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of...
This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstr...
