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Contrasting Opposites In The Child's World, Nardeen Mohamed Nabil El-Atrouzy Jan 2022

Contrasting Opposites In The Child's World, Nardeen Mohamed Nabil El-Atrouzy

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Humanizing The Colonial Other: The Engaged Reader In Shakespeare, Swift, Conrad, And Barghouti, Rasha Amr Ahmed Malek Nov 2021

Humanizing The Colonial Other: The Engaged Reader In Shakespeare, Swift, Conrad, And Barghouti, Rasha Amr Ahmed Malek

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Dialectic Of Past And Present In Eco's The Name Of The Rose And Al-Ghitani's Zayni Barakat, Martino Lovato Jun 2008

Dialectic Of Past And Present In Eco's The Name Of The Rose And Al-Ghitani's Zayni Barakat, Martino Lovato

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This thesis compares an Italian and an Egyptian novel, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and Gamal al-Ghitani's Zayni Barakat, paying particular attention to the way European and Arabic historiographies influence their composition. Both set at the end of the Middle Ages, the two novels are taken as representatives of the way contemporary European and Arabic literature portray the past in relation to their present. Starting with a reconstruction of the two historiographic patterns based on Salvation and Progress, and their influencing the notion of literary Medievalism, the two novels are treated separately in order to contextualize them in …


Post Resistance: Cyberspace And Women's Voices In The Arab World, Hanin Hassan Hanafi Nov 2007

Post Resistance: Cyberspace And Women's Voices In The Arab World, Hanin Hassan Hanafi

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Carmen: Debating The Femme Fatale, Jala Sameh El Hadidi Jun 2007

Carmen: Debating The Femme Fatale, Jala Sameh El Hadidi

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Parables Of Impermanence: Disintegrating The Real In John Fowles's "The Magus" And Thomas Pynchon's "V", Ahmed Emad El Din Hamza Feb 2007

Parables Of Impermanence: Disintegrating The Real In John Fowles's "The Magus" And Thomas Pynchon's "V", Ahmed Emad El Din Hamza

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Subaltern Voices: Silenced By Race, Gender, And Caste, Tamer Abdel Wahab Aly Feb 2007

Subaltern Voices: Silenced By Race, Gender, And Caste, Tamer Abdel Wahab Aly

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An Evolution Of Consciousness: The Idealization Of The Self In Goethe's Elective Affinities, Chopin's The Awakening And Cunningham's The Hours, Dana Dinnawi Jun 2006

An Evolution Of Consciousness: The Idealization Of The Self In Goethe's Elective Affinities, Chopin's The Awakening And Cunningham's The Hours, Dana Dinnawi

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A Vision Of Metaphor Between Mind And World : Ricoeur, Stevens, And La MéTaphore Vive, Jacinthe A. Assaad Jun 2006

A Vision Of Metaphor Between Mind And World : Ricoeur, Stevens, And La MéTaphore Vive, Jacinthe A. Assaad

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Contesting The Gendered Flâneuse Of The Arab Metropolis: Literary Representations Of Gender, The Body And Urban Space In Selected Urban Writings Of Salwa Bakr, Leila Aboulela And Hanan Al-Shaykh, Mona Bur Jan 2006

Contesting The Gendered Flâneuse Of The Arab Metropolis: Literary Representations Of Gender, The Body And Urban Space In Selected Urban Writings Of Salwa Bakr, Leila Aboulela And Hanan Al-Shaykh, Mona Bur

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This study attempts to identify salient motifs and critical themes relating to flânerie (street strolling) of women in the city as represented in two short stories and a novel by three Arab women- Egyptian, Sudanese, and Lebanese.


Narrative And Nation Construction, Yasmine Ramadan Jun 2005

Narrative And Nation Construction, Yasmine Ramadan

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The Search For Identity Through Self-Alienation In Charles Dickens's Great Expectations And Naguib Mahfuz's Palace Of Desire, Sahar Salah El-Din El-Khatib Feb 2005

The Search For Identity Through Self-Alienation In Charles Dickens's Great Expectations And Naguib Mahfuz's Palace Of Desire, Sahar Salah El-Din El-Khatib

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No abstract provided.


The Death Of The Hero: A Study In Modern And Postmodern Literature, Sarah R Yeslam Feb 2005

The Death Of The Hero: A Study In Modern And Postmodern Literature, Sarah R Yeslam

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No abstract provided.


Towards A Cultural History: Discourse, Practice And The Ethical Horizon, Hassan Khan Jun 2004

Towards A Cultural History: Discourse, Practice And The Ethical Horizon, Hassan Khan

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The Writer's Journey Into Solitude : Self-Discovery In Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Robinson Crusoe And Friday, Rabia Abdul Salim Madhi Jun 2004

The Writer's Journey Into Solitude : Self-Discovery In Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Robinson Crusoe And Friday, Rabia Abdul Salim Madhi

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The idea of physical solitude often implies metaphysical solitude, and it is this spiritual state of detachment or self-enclosure that usually arouses the widest range of moral responses. Physical solitude is a metaphorical focus for an attitude that relates to self and society. In my thesis, however, I am primarily interested in the concept of solitude as a vehicle facilitating a journey of inward exploration into the mystifying labyrinth of the self in search of truth. In this sense, solitude becomes a condition enabling consciousness to achieve spiritual insight and truth with respect to the nature of self and world.


Hermann Hesse’S Peter Camenzind: A Sufi Reading, Omneya Ahmed Ali Badr Feb 2004

Hermann Hesse’S Peter Camenzind: A Sufi Reading, Omneya Ahmed Ali Badr

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No abstract provided.


A Dramatics Of The Postmodern, Nisma IdrīS Jun 2003

A Dramatics Of The Postmodern, Nisma IdrīS

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No abstract provided.


Memory And Literary Retrieval Of Disappearing Worlds, Heba Ibrahim Meshaal Jun 2003

Memory And Literary Retrieval Of Disappearing Worlds, Heba Ibrahim Meshaal

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No abstract provided.


Sheltering Strategies, Rania Atef Morshed Jun 2003

Sheltering Strategies, Rania Atef Morshed

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Time, Nature, And The Body: Sufi Dimensions In Muhammad Afifi Matar's Quartet Of Joy And T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Yasmine Mohamed-Samir Motawy Jun 2003

Time, Nature, And The Body: Sufi Dimensions In Muhammad Afifi Matar's Quartet Of Joy And T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Yasmine Mohamed-Samir Motawy

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The Dynamics Of Political Theatre In David Hare's Via Dolorasa And SaʻDallah WannūS'S The King Is The King, Rehab Ali El-Kobtan Jun 2003

The Dynamics Of Political Theatre In David Hare's Via Dolorasa And SaʻDallah WannūS'S The King Is The King, Rehab Ali El-Kobtan

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The Castaway: A Comparative Study Of Alienation In Franz Kafka's "The Trial" And J.M. Coetzee's "Foe", Alia Mohamed Taher Ahmed Tawfik Abou Zeid Jun 2003

The Castaway: A Comparative Study Of Alienation In Franz Kafka's "The Trial" And J.M. Coetzee's "Foe", Alia Mohamed Taher Ahmed Tawfik Abou Zeid

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This thesis is a comparative study of alienation. It provides an analysis of the different ways in which the Czech writer, Franz Kafka, and the South African writer, J.M. Coetzee delineate alienation in their works, The Trial and Foe. Three aspects of alienation are discussed: alienation from self, world and language. Hence, the thesis emphasizes that manâ s predicament of alienation, homelessness and exile stems from a failure to recognize a self to which he can relate, an inability to find a home in an alien universe and an incapacity to develop a constructive relationship with words and language. This …


Narratives Of Third World Cities, Dalia Said Mostafa Feb 2002

Narratives Of Third World Cities, Dalia Said Mostafa

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A Study On The Functions Of Minimalism In Three Contemporary Dramatic Texts, Nevine Shoukry Dec 2001

A Study On The Functions Of Minimalism In Three Contemporary Dramatic Texts, Nevine Shoukry

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No abstract provided.


Borges The Sufi, Dalia Mohamed Eltayeb May 2001

Borges The Sufi, Dalia Mohamed Eltayeb

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No abstract provided.


Glass Splinter Realism, M El-Assyouti May 2001

Glass Splinter Realism, M El-Assyouti

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Lucius And Psyche, Daniele Stabellini May 2001

Lucius And Psyche, Daniele Stabellini

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No abstract provided.


Horace's 'Carpe Diem' In Modern Literature As An Application To Thornton Wilder's Plays, Our Town And The Matchmaker, Munira Essameddin Omar Wagdy May 2001

Horace's 'Carpe Diem' In Modern Literature As An Application To Thornton Wilder's Plays, Our Town And The Matchmaker, Munira Essameddin Omar Wagdy

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A Comparative Study Of Desert Novels Of IbrāHīM Al-KūNī And ʻAbd Al-RahṃAn MunīF, Hala Mohammed Hassan Hassan El Ganayni Apr 2001

A Comparative Study Of Desert Novels Of IbrāHīM Al-KūNī And ʻAbd Al-RahṃAn MunīF, Hala Mohammed Hassan Hassan El Ganayni

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The Unbearable Lightness Of Oscar Wilde's "Fan", Lamya Fouad Ramadan Mar 2001

The Unbearable Lightness Of Oscar Wilde's "Fan", Lamya Fouad Ramadan

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No abstract provided.