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Renaissance England And The Turban, Nabil I. Matar
Renaissance England And The Turban, Nabil I. Matar
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This collective volume is the result of the Second Annual Conference on Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean held at the American University in Cairo, 5-7 May, 1996. The contributors, David R. Blanks, John Victor Tolan, Nabil I. Matar, John Rodenbeck, Thabit Abdullah, E.M. Sartain, Omaima Abou-Bakr, and Nadia M. El-Cheik, take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and literature, in medieval their examination of past attitudes, in particular images of the 'Other' in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, in order to trace the origins of modern stereotypes. The essays are divided into three …
Poems, Nancy Thomas
Poems, Nancy Thomas
Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts
Poems include:
A Psalm for High Places
I Love Tangents
God at "The Penguin"
Metaphors for Transformation
An Ecumenical Quaker Draws the Line
Poems, Michael P. Graves
Poems, Michael P. Graves
Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts
Poems include:
Pie in the Sky
The Iconoclast Has His Day
The Mother Tongue: Acquiring Language And Being Human, Rebecca Ankeny
The Mother Tongue: Acquiring Language And Being Human, Rebecca Ankeny
Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts
One of my favorite Far Sides shows a spider on an analyst's couch, saying, "It's the same dream night after night...I walk out on my web, and suddenly a foot sticks-and then another foot sticks, and another, and another, and another...." Gary Larsen's spider expresses the impression that people who are fascinated by language have: language is like a web. I spin it out thinking that I have it under control, and suddenly it seems I am caught in the system of words. I open my mouth to speak, and suddenly words appear or disappear, the wrong words come, or …
Poems, Ed Higgins
Poems, Ed Higgins
Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts
Poems include:
Astrobiography
Of Light
Galaxies
For the children of Dunblane, Scotland
Eve's Body
Silent Prayer