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Provides keys to the understanding of Moroccan architecture and geometical arabesques.
Pictoral history of Colonial Algeria featuring never before seen albumen photographs of several Algerian cities, Constantine, Oran, Algiers, Kabilya, Blida, and Timgaad Alge
A powerful, brave, bold collection of poetry that will stay with the reader long after it's put aside.
Two copies of two poems, (in both English and French texts) "If I could," and "My heart is a museum," accompany pages of old photos, poscards, and illustrations from newspapers. This book was made "as a gift for Algerian people and all proceeds will be used towards the preservation of Algerian history through artifact collection," many of which the author donated to various Algerian museums.--P. [4] of cover.
Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1...
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A luminous, inventive, and deeply personal exploration of living in the liminal space between Jewish and Arab, ancient and modern, by a gifted Palestinian writer. Chosen by The New York Times as one of the best books of 1988, Arabesques is a luminous novel that engages with history and politics not as propaganda but as literature. That engagement begins with the language in which the book is written: Anton Shammas, from a Palestinian Christian family and raised in Israel, wrote in Hebrew, as no Arab novelist had before. The choice was provocative to both Arab and Jewish readers. Arabesques is divided into two sections: “The Tale” and “The Teller.” “The Tale” tells of several gene...
Debussy was not referring to "arabesque" in the form of a ballet term but rather to the meaning of "arabesque" as a piece with exquisite detail and clear repetitions of ideas and artistic balance. These pieces were written in 1888 during Debussy's earliest compositional period.
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