Originally Gathered As a tribute to the poet, scholar, and teacher Mounah A. Khouri, Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature creates a comprehensive sampling of the major currents of thought on Arabic fiction, poetry, theater, and film in the late twentieth century. Here are illuminating essays on emigrant poet Kahlil Gibran, on the relation of modern Arabic poetry to traditional Arabic literature and its Greek cultural heritage, on novelists like Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad and Ibrahim al-Kawni, and on the achievements of modern Arabic film and theater. From fifteen contributors, Issa Boullata...
Originally Gathered As a tribute to the poet, scholar, and teacher Mounah A. Khouri, Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature creates a comprehens...
To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets the perils and promises of change in the rapidly modernizing Egypt of the nineteenth century. Al-Barudi, sole scion of a Turko-Circassian elite family that clung precariously to a legacy of position and power, turned his military education into a government career that ended with his elevation to the office of prime minister. He served briefly before the British invasion in 1882
put an end to Egypt s independence for seventy years. As prime minister, al-Barudi focused on drafting and passing...
To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets the perils and promises of change in the rapidly m...
