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In Passing: Arab American Poetry and the Politics of Race [PDF]

, 2005
Racial passing has a long history in America. In fact, there are manifold reasons for passing, not the least of which is to reap benefits-social, economic and legal-routinely denied to people of color.
Wardi, Anissa Janine, Wardi-Zonna, Katherine   +1 more
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Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels [PDF]

, 2017
I argue that young Lebanese novelists like Sahar Mandour and Hilal Chouman mobilize the ordinary as a way to 'write out' of the literary legacy of war and trauma writing that have characterized Lebanese fiction, without denying or suppressing Lebanon's ...
Ghenwa Hayek
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Automatic Era Identification in Classical Arabic Poetry

Applied Sciences
The authenticity of classical Arabic poetry has long been challenged by claims that some part of the pre-Islamic poetic heritage should not be attributed to this era.
Nariman Makhoul Sleiman, Ali Ahmad Hussein, Tsvi Kuflik, Einat Minkov   +3 more
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Ajami in West Africa [PDF]

, 2010
West Africans throughout the region have creatively adapted the Arabic script to write non-Arabic languages, a form of literacy known as Ajami which remains widespread today despite little or no government support.
Souag, Lameen
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Le poesie della rivoluzione egiziana e la loro riproduzione come testi multimodali in YouTube: al-Midàn (La Piazza) di Abd al-Rahmàn al-Abnudi

Lea, 2013
The article investigates Abd al-Rahmàn al-Abnudi’s al-Midàn (The Square), the celebrated poem in colloquial Egyptian Arabic dedicated to the Egyptian young people who occupied the central Midàn al-Tahrìr (Tahrìr Square or Liberation Square) in Cairo on ...
Lorenzo Casini
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Some development in Urdu poetry since 1936 [PDF]

, 1969
This work is devoted to discuss the developments in Urdu poetry since 1936.A brief account of the developments in poetical language, various verse-forms and themes of Urdu poetry till Iqbal (1877-1938) has been given in the introductory chapter.
Shakir, Faqir Hussain
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The al-Kanimiyyin Shehus : a working chronology [PDF]

, 2006
It is one of the paradoxes of the history of the states of the Central Sudan that Borno, the state with the longest tradition of Islamic literacy should have such an illestablished chronology - especially for the nineteenth century - when compared with ...
Lavers, John E.
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Idris Bidlisis Prefatory Poem to Hast Bihist VI: Editio Princeps and Translation

Journal of Islamic History and Manuscript
A historian of Kurdish origin, Idris Bidlisi (1457-1520), is undoubtedly one of the most important intellectuals in the Ottoman-Iranian borderland in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries.
Mustafa Dehqan
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Passion and Conflict: Medieval Islamic Views of the West

, 2014
This article analyzes the representation of al-Andalus and North Africa in medieval Islamic maps from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. In contrast to other maps of the Mediterranean, which display a veneer of harmony and balance, the image of the
Pinto, Karen C.
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An Ethiopic 'Homily on Peter' attributed to Ephrem

Aethiopica
An edition, with English translation, is provided of an Ethiopic ‘Homily on Peter’, attributed to Ephrem the Syrian (d.373), which is uniquely attested in MS Ethio-SPaRe UM-046, fols 148v–151v.
Aaron Michael Butts, Ted Erho, Jonas Karlsson   +2 more
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