The Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala'ika was one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century. A pioneer of free verse poetry, over four decades, she transformed the landscape of modern Arabic literature and culture. Revolt Against the Sun presents a selection of Nazik alMala'ika's poetry in English for the first time. Bringing together poems from each of her published collections, it traces al-Mala'ika's transformation from a lyrical Romantic poet in the 1940s to a fervently committed Arab...
The Full Pomegranate (SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture) (Excelsior Editions)
by Avrom Sutzkever
Fresh translations of more than fifty poems by the three literary legends of the 14th-century Middle East--Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla--are accompanied by vocals, pan flute, harmonium bells, and hand drums.
Rumi Poetry (Sufi Poetry, Rumi Poetry, Inspirational Quotes, Sufism)
by John Balkh
Well-known in the Arab world as a poet, essayist and translator Abdulkareem Kasid, born in Basra in 1946, escaped from Iraq in 1978 and went to live in Aden. He lived and worked in Damascus for ten years before settling in London with his wife and two children. In recent years he has returned to Iraq from time to time as well as travelling widely in North Africa and the Middle East. His translations from French into Arabic include poetry by Rimbaud, Jacques Prevert's Paroles, and Anabase by Sain...
Written by the world’s leading expert on Gibran, this profound little book will be an essential addition to any reader's Gibran collection, and a perfect Christmas and Valentine’s Day alternative for those tired with collections of clichéd romantic verse. Regarding it as the raison d’être of the universe, Kahlil Gibran was never more insightful than when he wrote about love. Now for the first time, and illustrated with the poet’s own paintings, his reflections on love and friendship have be...
Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air
by Afeefah Khazi-Syed, Aleena Shabbir, Ayse Angela Guvenilir, Maisha Munawwara Prome, Mariam Eman Dogar, and Marwa Abdullhai
Livre de l'enfance de Notre-Seigneur J�sus-Christ (Monograph Reprints, #6)
by Jacques Rhetore
دیوان اشعار فرخی یزدی معروف به تاج الشعرا
by Mirza Mohammad Farokhi Yazdi
This book contains selections from Ghalib (1797-1869), the most famous Urdu poet of the nineteenth century, and widely regarded as the greatest Urdu poet till now. Ghalib was highly individualistic by temperament, and though he looked up to the long past Persian masters, he was destined by character to defy tradition, which he did both in metaphysical and romantic poetry. All Urdu poets were grounded in mysticism, but Ghalib was a sceptic, having pantheism for his matrix. A believer at the consc...
Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'), the poet Hmedan al-Shwe'ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, Hmedan wrote in an idiom widely referred to as "Nabati," here a mix of Najdi vernacular and archaic vocabulary and images dating to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, Hmedan is mostly concerned with worldly matter...
Egyptian Tales and Romances (Routledge Revivals) (Routledge Revivals)
by E. A. Wallis Budge
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum's department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the trustees of the British Museum: numbering into the thousands and of great cultural and historical significance. Budge published well over 100 monographs, which shaped the development of future scholarshi...
