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Author |
: Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā |
Publisher |
: University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2005-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1610753275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781610753272 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Princesses' Street by : Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā
This book continues the personal story of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920âe"1994) that began with The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood. Jabra was one of the Middle Eastâe(tm)s leading novelists, poets, critics, painters, and translators (he was the first to translate The Sound and the Fury into Arabic), and is the writer who is given credit for modernizing the Arabic novel. This book not only helps us understand Jabra as a writer and human being but also his times in postâe"World War II Baghdad when Iraq was enjoying an unprecedented period of creativity in literature and the arts. As a bright and inquisitive young man he became friends with the archeologist Max Mallowan and his wife, who, he later learned, was Agatha Christie (she wrote The Mousetrap during this period, in a little mud brick room). Jabraâe(tm)s intellectual autobiography quickly developed as he traveled to Jerusalem, Oxford, and Harvard University, where he studied with I. A. Richards and Archibald MacLeish. A number of different teaching posts in Baghdad provided him opportunities to become friends with many leading poets, such as Buland al-Haydari and Tawfiq Sayigh; historians like George Antonius; and the renowned translators of Arabic literature Desmond Stewart and Denys Johnson-Davies. But this book is not only about matters of the mind, it is about matters of the heart as well. Jabra beautifully describes his lengthy love affair with a young Muslim woman, the beautiful Lamica, whom he first met near Princessesâe(tm) Street and whom he eventually married. He recounts all of the difficulties they had to surmount, and the pleasures to be had. This is the last book that Jabra published during his lifetime. Not only is Jabraâe(tm)s life an outstanding example of the circumstancesâe"and fateâe"of the Palestinian in the twentieth century, but it also provides countless interesting insights into the cultural life of the Middle East in general and its modes of interconnection with the West.
Author |
: Linas Alsenas |
Publisher |
: Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0810989727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780810989726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Princess of 8th Street by : Linas Alsenas
A shy little princess, on an outing with her mother, gets a royal treat when she makes a new friend.
Author |
: Sonja Mejcher-Atassi |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 573 |
Release |
: 2024-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231560443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231560443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Impossible Friendship by : Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals—among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid Khalidi, and Rasha Salam, some of whom would go on to become acclaimed authors, scholars, and critics—came together across religious lines in a fleeting moment of possibility within a troubled history. What brought these Muslim, Jewish, and Christian friends together, and what became of them in the aftermath of 1948, the year of the creation of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba? Sonja Mejcher-Atassi tells the story of this unlikely friendship and in so doing offers an intimate cultural and social history of Palestine in the critical postwar period. She vividly reconstructs the vanished social world of these protagonists, tracing the connections between the specificity of individual lives and the larger contexts in which they are embedded. In exploring this ecumenical friendship and its artistic, literary, and intellectual legacies, Mejcher-Atassi demonstrates how social biography can provide a picture of the past that is at once more inclusive and more personal. This group portrait, she argues, allows us to glimpse alternative possibilities that exist within and alongside the fraught history of Israel/Palestine. Bringing a remarkable era to life through archival research and nuanced interdisciplinary scholarship, An Impossible Friendship unearths prospects for historical reconciliation, solidarity, and justice.
Author |
: Marion Crawford |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2003-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466831902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466831901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Little Princesses by : Marion Crawford
Once upon a time, in 1930s England, there were two little princesses named Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Their father was the Duke of York, the second son of King George V, and their Uncle David was the future King of England. We all know how the fairy tale ended: When King George died, "Uncle David" became King Edward VIII---who abdicated less than a year later to marry the scandalous Wallis Simpson. Suddenly the little princesses' father was King. The family moved to Buckingham Palace, and ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth became the heir to the crown she would ultimately wear for over fifty years. The Little Princesses shows us how it all began. In the early thirties, the Duke and Duchess of York were looking for someone to educate their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, then five- and two-years-old. They already had a nanny---a family retainer who had looked after their mother when she was a child---but it was time to add someone younger and livelier to the household. Enter Marion Crawford, a twenty-four-year-old from Scotland who was promptly dubbed "Crawfie" by the young Elizabeth and who would stay with the family for sixteen years. Beginning at the quiet family home in Piccadilly and ending with the birth of Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in 1948, Crawfie tells how she brought the princesses up to be "Royal," while attempting to show them a bit of the ordinary world of underground trains, Girl Guides, and swimming lessons. The Little Princesses was first published in 1950 to a furor we cannot imagine today. It has been called the original "nanny diaries" because it was the first account of life with the Royals ever published. Although hers was a touching account of the childhood of the Queen and Princess Margaret, Crawfie was demonized by the press. The Queen Mother, who had been a great friend and who had, Crawfie maintained, given her permission to write the account, never spoke to her again. Reading The Little Princesses now, with a poignant new introduction by BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond, offers fascinating insights into the changing lives and times of Britains royal family.
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Total Pages |
: 722 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112109762101 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis British Books by :
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: Karl Baedeker |
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Total Pages |
: 664 |
Release |
: 1911 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105036745615 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis London and Its Environs by : Karl Baedeker
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Total Pages |
: 1092 |
Release |
: 1879 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:555075237 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Commercial directory of Liverpool, and shipping guide [afterw.] The Commercial directory and shippers' guide [afterw.] Fulton's commercial directory and shippers' guide by :
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: Manitoba. Legislative Assembly |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1044 |
Release |
: 1913 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924112725795 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba by : Manitoba. Legislative Assembly
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Total Pages |
: 449 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781420143546 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1420143549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Author |
: Compiled from Wikipedia entries and published by DrGoogelberg |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2012-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781291079692 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1291079696 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis English Princesses by : Compiled from Wikipedia entries and published by DrGoogelberg
This book is completey compiled from Wikipedia pages. Learn about Diana Spencer, Kate Midleton and all the other UK Princesses from then and now.