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Le Gallienne’S Paraphrase And The Limits Of Translation, Adam Talib Jan 2013

Le Gallienne’S Paraphrase And The Limits Of Translation, Adam Talib

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This essay shows that Richard Le Gallienne’s 1897 edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is an original literary text and that it, along with other versions of the Rubáiyát published in the same period, was a response to FitzGerald’s wildly popular translation of a few decades earlier. Le Gallienne’s paraphrased versions of Persian poetry, Khayyam and later Hafez, are linked to his close involvement with the commercial publishing industry while his primary reliance in these paraphrases on academic translations highlights the parallel trend of scholarly reaction, often corrective, to FitzGerald’s edition. By examining how Le Gallienne composed his paraphrase …


Why A Guide To Family Wealth In The Arab Region?, Barbara Ibrahim, Heba Abou Shnief Jan 2006

Why A Guide To Family Wealth In The Arab Region?, Barbara Ibrahim, Heba Abou Shnief

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Families everywhere are feeling the pressures of life in a rapidly changing world. Perhaps no other place has experienced more rapid economic and social development than the Arab region. Over the last 40 years, family expectations for where adult children will live, whom they will marry, or the occupations they will follow have shifted dramatically


From Crisis To Catastrophe: Epitaph For E.T. (Egyptian Theater), Mahmoud Ahmed El Lozy Jan 1998

From Crisis To Catastrophe: Epitaph For E.T. (Egyptian Theater), Mahmoud Ahmed El Lozy

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The second of two issues, this volume covers aspects of Egyptian society. Contributors include: Donald Cole, Soraya Altorki, Asef Bayat, Eric Denis, Enid Hill, Ziad Bahaeddin, Malak Rouchdy, Linda Herrera, Jim Napoli, Hussein Amin, Mahmoud al-Lozy, Cynthia Nelson, and Shahnaz Rouse.


Arab Views Of Northern Europeans In Medieval History And Geography, Thabit Abdullah Jan 1996

Arab Views Of Northern Europeans In Medieval History And Geography, Thabit Abdullah

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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 …


An Ambivalent Image: Byzantium Viewed By The Arabs, Nadia M. El-Cheik Jan 1996

An Ambivalent Image: Byzantium Viewed By The Arabs, Nadia M. El-Cheik

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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 …