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The Experimental Arabic Novel
Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.
Card Chemistry
“Know Thy Self” was the Ancient Greek aphorism inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. If this maxim deserves the importance ascribed to it over the centuries, then the Ancient Science of the Cards is surely of great potential significance, for it can vastly aid us in understanding ourselves, as well as our relations with others. Apart from our basic need for food, shelter, and sustenance, our most consuming preoccupation is our relations with our fellow human beings. We're concerned with how we can get along better with others, how we can tell which people are trustworthy, with whom we can form productive relationships or conduct business negotiations, and to whom ...
Mysteries of Cardology
Stefan G. Meyer's Mysteries of Cardology is an account of the author's attempt to delve into the mysterious basis of the science of the cards, also known as cardology--a system of divination, prediction, and personal understanding based on the ordinary deck of playing cards that we're all familiar with from such games as poker, bridge, and solitaire. Unlike astrology, cardology is not grounded in any observable phenomena such as the movement of planets in the solar system. It depends on a Birth Card chart that assigns a particular card to each person according to their day of birth and on a series of ninety Age Spreads produced by a simple controlled shuffle of the deck called quadration. Stefan Meyer's narrative delves into the mathematics behind this system while also raising broader questions regarding how metaphysical systems used for divination or predictive purposes work. Do they simply allow the human mind to see what it wants to see, or do they represent an actual mathematical or metaphysical structure embedded in the fabric of human existence?
Return of the God Hypothesis
The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology. Beginning in the late 19th century, many intellectuals began to insist that scientific knowledge conflicts with traditional theistic belief—that science and belief in God are “at war.” Philosopher of science Stephen Meyer challenges this view by examining three scientific discoveries with decidedly theistic implications. Building on the case for the intelligent design of life that he developed in Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt, Meyer demonstrates how discoveries in cosmology and physics coup...
Committed to Disillusion
Arabic literature; Egypt; 20th century; history and criticism.
Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs
A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli literature from the 1940s to the present Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs charts the aesthetic and political formation of neoliberalism and globalization in Israeli and Palestinian literature from the 1940s to the present. By tracking literature’s move from making worlds to reading signs, Cohen Lustig proposes a new way to read theorize our global contemporary. Cohen Lustig argues that the period of Israeli statism and its counterpart of Palestinian statelessness produced works that sought to make and create whole worlds and social time—create the new state of Israel, preserve collective visions of Pal...
Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel
Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition.The novel is now a major genre in the Arabic literary field; this book explores the development of the novel, especially the ways in which the genre engages with a
Arab Modernism as World Cinema
Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the nineteenth and early twentieth century—when Arab writers and artists reenergized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and societies—Peter Limbrick argues that Smihi’s films take up the spirit of the Nahda for a new age. Examining Smihi’s oeuvre, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. This original study offers new routes for thinking about world cinema and modernism in the Middle East and North Africa, and about Arab cinema in the world.
Committed to Disillusion
Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment, producing agonized works that challenged the key assumptions of socially engaged writing. Rather than a rejection of the idea, however, these works offered reinterpretation of committed writing that helped set the stage for activist writers of the present. David DiMeo focuses on the work of three leading writers whose socially committed fiction was adapted to the disenchantment and discontent o...
An Impossible Friendship
In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals—among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid Khalidi, and Rasha Salam, some of whom would go on to become acclaimed authors, scholars, and critics—came together across religious lines in a fleeting moment of possibility within a troubled history. What brought these Muslim, Jewish, and Christian friends together, and what became of them in the aftermath of 1948, the year of the creation of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba? Sonja Mejcher-Atassi tells the ...
