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Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt

Two Alien Lives in Egypt

By: Anna Cachia,Pierre Cachia

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Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt

Two Alien Lives in Egypt

By: Anna Cachia,Pierre Cachia

This is a highly unusual and beautifully written book. It is the double memoir of a mother and son, Anna and Pierre, and the story takes us from Anna's childhood in Russia and subsequent arrival in Egypt in 1901 to Pierre's enrollment at the American University in Cairo in the late 1930s. It is fascinating, therefore, not only as a personal account of an interesting group of people but also as a social document that portrays a segment of Egypt's society in the first forty years of the twentieth century. As a personal story, it is a rewarding insight into the early formation of a leading, well-known, and respected Arabist. His mother's account of her own early life and tragedies reveals a remarkable woman we would wish to have known. As a social document, it gives us a rare perhaps unique picture of the life of foreigners in Egypt who were not part of the elite, privileged, ruling class, revealing much about the choices that were available to them in education, career, marriage, and social mixing. Landlocked Islands thus offers the social historian a study of some minorities in Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century; it also opens up the whole question of expatriate life in Egypt. But, above all, it is an entertaining and intriguing tale, a book that one constantly finds oneself eager to pick up and read.

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American University in Cairo Press

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1617972355

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The Origins of the Libyan Nation

Colonial Legacy, Exile and the Emergence of a New Nation-State

By: Anna Baldinetti

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The Origins of the Libyan Nation

Colonial Legacy, Exile and the Emergence of a New Nation-State

By: Anna Baldinetti

This book is concerned with the emergence and construction of the Libyan nation. It charts the rise of nationalism out of the colonial era and shows how nationalism developed through an external Libyan diaspora and the influence of Arab nationalism.

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240

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Routledge

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1135245029

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9781135245023

Accidental Gods

On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

By: Anna Della Subin

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Accidental Gods

On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

By: Anna Della Subin

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach us. In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nationalist uprisings in India to Nigerien spirit possession cults, Anna Della Subin explores how deification has been a means of defiance for colonized peoples. Conversely, we see how Columbus, Cortés, and other white explorers amplified stories of their godhood to justify their dominion over native peoples, setting into motion the currents of racism and exclusion that have plagued the New World ever since they touched its shores. At once deeply learned and delightfully antic, Accidental Gods offers an unusual keyhole through which to observe the creation of our modern world. It is that rare thing: a lyrical, entertaining work of ideas, one that marks the debut of a remarkable literary career.

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435

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Metropolitan Books

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1250296889

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9781250296887

Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts

By: Anna H. Perrault Ph.D.,Elizabeth S. Aversa,Sonia Ramírez Wohlmuth,Cynthia J. Miller,Cynthia F. Miller

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Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts

By: Anna H. Perrault Ph.D.,Elizabeth S. Aversa,Sonia Ramírez Wohlmuth,Cynthia J. Miller,Cynthia F. Miller

This familiar guide to information resources in the humanities and the arts, organized by subjects and emphasizing electronic resources, enables librarians, teachers, and students to quickly find the best resources for their diverse needs. Authoritative, trusted, and timely, Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts: Sixth Edition introduces new librarians to the breadth of humanities collections, experienced librarians to the nature of humanities scholarship, and the scholars themselves to a wealth of information they might otherwise have missed. This new version of a classic resource—the first update in over a decade—has been refreshed to account for the myriad of digital resources that have rewritten the rules of the reference and research world, and been expanded to include significantly increased coverage of world literature and languages. This book is invaluable for a wide variety of users: librarians in academic, public, school, and special library settings; researchers in religion, philosophy, literature, and the performing and visual arts; graduate students in library and information science; and teachers and students in humanities, the arts, and interdisciplinary degree programs.

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482

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1610693272

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The Life of Imagination

Revealing and Making the World

By: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

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The Life of Imagination

Revealing and Making the World

By: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

Imagination allows us to step out of the ordinary but also to transform it through our sense of wonder and play, artistic inspiration and innovation, or the eureka moment of a scientific breakthrough. In this book, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei offers a groundbreaking new understanding of its place in everyday experience as well as the heights of creative achievement. The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world—thinking, acting, feeling, making, and being. Gosetti-Ferencei reveals imagination’s roots in embodied human cognition and its role in shaping our cognitive ecology. She demonstrates how imagination arises from our material engagements with the world and at the same time endows us with the sense of an inner life, how it both allows us to escape from reality and aids us in better understanding it. Drawing from philosophy, cognitive science, evolutionary anthropology, developmental psychology, literary theory, and aesthetics, Gosetti-Ferencei engages a spectacular range of examples from ordinary thought processes and actions to artistic, scientific, and literary feats to argue that, like consciousness itself, imagination resists reductive explanation. The Life of Imagination offers a vital account of transformative thinking that shows how imagination will be essential in cultivating a future conducive to human flourishing and to that of the life around us.

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364

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Columbia University Press

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0231548168

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9780231548168

Gender and Number Agreement in Arabic

By: Simone Bettega,Luca D’Anna

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Gender and Number Agreement in Arabic

By: Simone Bettega,Luca D’Anna

The book provides a comprehensive survey of the complex agreement system of Arabic, spanning from the pre-Islami era to the present age and including both the written form of the language and its spoken varieties.

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429

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BRILL

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9004527249

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9789004527249

Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt

Two Alien Lives in Egypt

By: Anna Cachia,Pierre Cachia

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Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt

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By: Anna Cachia,Pierre Cachia

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Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt

Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt

The Origins of the Libyan Nation

The Origins of the Libyan Nation

Accidental Gods

Accidental Gods

Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts

Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts

The Life of Imagination

The Life of Imagination

Gender and Number Agreement in Arabic

Gender and Number Agreement in Arabic

Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt

Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt

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