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The Hamas war against Israel as reflected in the poetry written by its leaders during the First Intifada and the early years of implementation of the Oslo Accords

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 340-360, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract This article looks at Hamas's war against Israel through the lens of the poetry written by leading members of Hamas during the period 1987–1996 (from the founding of the organization through the early stages of the implementation of the Oslo Accords).
Elad Ben‐Dror
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Knowledge and the Picturesque: Encountering Syria in the Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 365-383, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This essay looks at the West's engagement with Syria in the eighteenth century, through the writings of travellers and through the history of the publications they brought back from their travels. It argues that these publications provoked a rethinking of various tropes in the description of the Levant, helping to define attitudes to ruins as ...
Alexis Tadié
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Harold Pinter's Old Times and the play of indistinction

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 89-104, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This article analyses the fluid frontiers of imagination, memory and the real in Harold Pinter’s Old Times. While the latter notions of memory and the real in Pinter’s works have been extensively explored, the concept of imagination has not. In this article I argue that the concept of imagination as it has been interpreted since the mid‐1900s ...
Ulla Kallenbach
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Translating German Emperors: A Staufen–Sicilian Synthesis under Henry VI?

The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 2, Page 163-179, Spring 2023., 2023
Abstract The Staufen conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1194 can be understood as the violent destruction of a sophisticated and cosmopolitan Norman kingdom and its replacement by a new dynasty with starkly different cultural and political models. Indeed, many contemporary authors decried the brutality associated with Henry VI's conquest.
Philippa Byrne
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Poetics of modernity and nationalism: Revisiting the emergence of modern Kurdish poetry

Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2022., 2022
Abstract The emergence of modern Kurdish poetry marks a period of great significance in the history of Kurdish literature since it witnessed the advent of modernity, the rise of Kurdish nationalism, the fall of the Persian and Ottoman Empires, and the creation of the Middle East with no country for Kurds.
Farangis Ghaderi
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A New Reading of Hariq’s Poetry at the Linguistic Level: Based on Nawzad Kalhor’s Revision

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2022
For all nations, classical literature in general and classical poetry, in particular, are recognized rich sources of social, cultural, ethnic, and even historical information about past events and facts.
Jafar Ghahramany
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Boycott, Resistance and the Law: Cause Lawyering in Conflict and Authoritarianism

The Modern Law Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-104, January 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines the role of cause lawyers in conflicted or authoritarian contexts where the chances of legal victory are often minimal. Drawing upon the literature on resistance, performance, memory studies, legal consciousness and the sociology of lawyers, the paper examines how cause lawyers challenge and subvert power. The paper first
Kieran McEvoy, Anna Bryson
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The Semiotics of Rumi’s Literal Attitudes in Shams-e Tabrizi Divan [PDF]

Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2016
Through the excessive application of pictorial and compounding qualities of the alphabet letters, Rumi has versified very beautiful poems in his Divan, Shams-e Tabrizi.
Morteza Heydari
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A Study of the Persian Words and Expressions in Nali’s Kurdish Poems

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2022
Nali is one of the prominent and creative classical Kurdish poets of the nineteenth century. He used many Persian words and compounds in his Kurdish poems. He was one of the leading poets of classical Kurdish poetry in this area.
Seyed Asaad Sheikhahmadi, Sohila Salimizand   +1 more
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Goethe in the Shadow of the East: the Influence of the Quran on West- Eastern Divan [PDF]

مطالعات بین‌رشته‌ای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی, 2023
There is a close relationship between Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, especially in the domain of influence studies. The famous German poet, novelist and dramatist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from his early youth was somehow interested ...
Mostafa Hosseini
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