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Marle Hammond
Celebrates the variety and richness of Arabic-language cinema by analysing 28 films released between 1933 and 2021, including Muhammad Khan's 'Dreams of Hind and Camilia' (1989), Moufida Tlatli's 'Silences of…
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Bilingual anthology of classical and modern Arabic poems, from the 6th century to the present, with English and Arabic on facing pages.
Marle Hammond (Professor of History, Professor of History, SOAS University of London)
This edition of an anonymous work of fiction reads as a transnational literary whodunnit. How did this hybrid text, blending the Arabic genres of the popular sira and the Udhr=i…
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Marle Hammond (Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture, School of Oriental and African Studies)
Classical Arabic literature has a rich tradition of women’s poetry-and of lamentation for the dead in particular. This volume contextualises this corpus by examining its favourable reception in the literary…
Throughout his distinguished career devoted to the study of Arabic language and literature, Geert Jan van Gelder sustained a particular interest in humour and irreverence: in mujun, broadly understood as…
James Henry Hammond
Title: Marl: a letter addressed to the Agricultural Society of Jefferson County, Georgia.
Author: James Henry Hammond
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana…
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Presents studies on Arabic literature and its poetic heritage. Focussing on the late academic Magda al-Nowaihi, an outstanding scholar of Middle East studies whose diverse interests and energy inspired numerous…
