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Gibran fu un poeta e filosofo libanese. Di religione cristiano-maronita, di adozione statunitense, fu punto di riferimento per molti letterati arabi emigrati negli Stati Uniti. Le sue opere, che vogliono richiamare ad una spiritualità che trascende le religioni, furono tradotte in oltre venti lingue.

Deserts of sand and deserts of the heart, Middle Eastern deserts and American deserts: Two Deserts, a collection of stories, follows the circles of two unforgettable women across cultures and deserts. The Arabian circle includes a 17-year-old girl yearning for freedom and a Muslim mother plotting to rescue her son from a jihadist movement. The American circle includes a hooker who is training her daughter for the life, a priest in love, and a club of women whose husbands are dying.

Esta obra es muy corta, centrando el argumento en multitud de historias, anécdotas, parábolas y reflexiones de tipo espiritual contadas desde la perspectiva de un hombre que se considera loco a sí mismo. Consta de una introducción hecha por él mismo y 34 capítulos también muy pequeños.

Short stories by Arash Dabestani. Please note: This audiobook is in Persian.

Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. "Sukun" means serenity or calm, and a sukun is also a form of punctuation in Arabic orthography that denotes a pause over a consonant.

This universalist spiritual treatise is the best known work by the Lebanese-born poet and artist Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931). The central figure of the narrative is a fictional prophet, Al Mustafa, who is about to set off on a journey back to his homeland. His departure is delayed when he encounters a group of people who urgently seek his advice on a wide range of topics ranging from the mundane to the highest flights of spiritual introspection.

Орхан Памук – известный турецкий писатель, обладатель многочисленных национальных и международных премий, в числе которых Нобелевская премия по литературе за «поиск души своего меланхолического города». Душа города всегда обретается в его прошлом, возможно, поэтому талант Памука так блестяще проявляется в исторических романах, таких как «Имя мне – Красный» и «Белая крепость». Сюжет «Белой крепости», действие которого происходит в 17 веке, одновременно прост и загадочен, подобно древней арабской миниатюре: главный герой, молодой итальянец, попадает в плен к туркам, где становится рабом странного человека, одержимого познанием вселенной.

Kurdish Syria, 2014. Karin longs to fight for her freedom. Except she’s forced to stay home while her brother heads into battle and ISIS advances. But when death and destruction arrive at the city gates, Karin shoulders her rifle and prepares to engage. Roza aches for the peaceful life of a wife and mother. But when she loses her husband in mortar fire, her grief drives her into the female militia to defend her family. Her rage only grows when she discovers her friend's sister has been captured by ISIS. Fighting side-by-side with their fellow sisters, Karin and Roza launch a daring and ...

זפיך צומחים מעור הלחי,/ משלש של סדין מנשם על עצם הלסת,/ ריסיך רועדים ברגע/ בו חודר האור את צמרת הארן,/ את האויר המר,/ את הזגוגית,/ את חלומותיו המסכסכים בשערי./ האור הכל יכול הסתולל בנשימותיך הכבדות./ ישנת כפי שרק אתה/ יכול: סופג את האור, מחליף את כל תאיך/ שקוע בבארות שכחה, מקפל וזוכר./ הדבר היפה בעולם הוא געגוע,/ קוי המתאר של שנתך.

Woven from threads of Aramaic, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Sumerian and Arabic, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another. Here, Safa Khatib journeys across the possibilities of language and self, asking us to dwell in the thresholds between the 'old' and the 'new'.

A Note by the Translators One may ask why we have chosen to write about Zhaleh and translate her work into the English language at a moment when the women's movement and resistance against patriarchal power structures have come of age in many parts of the world. What makes us interested in her work is the universality of the themes and emotions permeating her voice - a resistance against injustice and a call for equality and justice as an inborn right of every human being. In refusing to be defined as an object of desire in a society bound by power relations that privileged and entrenched ...

From the author of Lithuanian Lullaby, a 1990s journey to London, Lebanon & Lithuania... It wasn’t supposed to happen. While on a business trip to Beirut, George is taken captive during a taxi heist. It goes badly for all involved, but it’s about to get so much worse. As George becomes an accidental hostage, he also falls victim to a world that has forgotten him. He has one connection to the outside – the warden’s daughter, a teenage girl, who teaches him about love and the perspective of her people. Will those learnings be enough to navigate his new life as a free man? It was hard ...

Award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women’s bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power.

Are you drawn to the beauty of Persian poetry and possess an upper-intermediate understanding of Farsi? If so, this book offers a delightful opportunity for both enjoyment and learning. Within this captivating collection of Sohrab Sepehri's poems, each verse is meticulously annotated with diacritics for vowels, accompanied by vocabulary lists and comprehension exercises designed to enrich your learning experience.The exercises are crafted to deepen your comprehension of each poem while expanding your knowledge of literal meanings and expressions. Delve into our curated "Quotes" section for ...

Ever since 1993 when President Bill Clinton first spent his Summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been fascinated by the United States' willingness to have such a concentration of the nation's power elite, both governmental and otherwise, concentrated on this one-hundred square mile island in the Atlantic Ocean. It created such a perfect target for terrorists wanting to destabilize both the Administration and the nation as a whole. By August of 2015 al-Baghdadi was the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, more colloquially known as ISIS. Seeking political ...

Flucht aus dem Iran und der Kampf um Identität und Anerkennung. Seit 1979, mit dem Sturz des Schahs, sind die Töchter der hochgestellten iranischen Familie Valiat im amerikanischen Exil. Nur ihre Mutter, die noch immer Heimat, Tradition und Stolz verkörpert, blieb damals in Iran. Als bei dem alljährlichen Familientreffen in Aspen die Dinge aus dem Ruder laufen und die exaltierte Shirin erst gegen Kaution wieder aus der Arrestzelle entlassen wird, verändert sich etwas in den Frauen, jede muss sich schmerzlichen Fragen stellen.

في هذه المسرحية تدور الأحداث داخل مؤسسة لرعاية المكفوفين، تعينهم على الحياة الطبيعية ليتجاوزوا محنة فقدان البصر. وهنا يطرح السؤال: هل كل كفيف عاجز عن النظر؟ وهل كل مبصر قادر على الرؤية؟ ثم ما الإبصار؟ وما الرؤية؟

Mullah Nasruddin (Nasreddin Hoca), the eight-centuries-old wise fool character originating from Turkey and the Levant, is the subject of thousands of funny, wise tales, jokes, and anecdotes told across the Middle and Far East and retold today worldwide. Carefully chosen from beloved authentic sources, these short stories and folk tales will bring readers a smile, nod, or chuckle of self-recognition.

لقد تركني الجميع... أفلتوا يدي، لا أتذكر مستثنى ليستثنى منهم..حتى الحبل الذي كنت أتعلق به في السماء أفلتُّه... سقطت في المقابر بين الموتى !! وحين عدت للحياة أصبحت ميتًا وسط الأحياء. زرت الحانات حتى أصبحت سكناي وكنت ألملم قطرات الخمر، كان صدى أصواتهم يلاحقني: عليك اللعنة يا زغفري... وكنت أقول لنفسي : مت أيها الفتى لعلك تحيا!! لكن ماذا أفعل بنفسي فنحن نستطيع أن نتجاوز الأشخاص ولكننا لا نستطيع أن نتجاوز المواقع التي خضنا بها معاركنا، نتعثر بالجروح التي أورثتناها الحروب والآلام لا تغادرنا مطلقا.

While living for a dream to change the world around them, how do dreamers immerse in their dream and live in it? How do they turn the dream to become their reality? How do they make their happiness and sorrows part of it? What happens to the dream and what happens to the dreamers? find out in this story, see it through the eyes of the people who lived it.