...Just like in other areas in Middle East, Palestine was engaged in the heated debate on issues related to women and gender that had begun to generate controversy among intellectuals and reformers in the late nineteenth century. In Palestine, the Arabic press was a primary vehicle through which...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of Arab nationalism. Throughout his numerous writings on Arab nationalism, Sati‘ al-Husri—the foremost theoretician of Arab nationalism—never lost sight of the ultimate goal of the ideology he so vigorously propagated, namely the political unity...

... allegory and postcolonial Algeria in the interest of pan-Arab patriotism. black decade Dhakirat al jasad Mosteghanemi Huggan Graham Kateb Yacine Mashriq Mosteghanemi Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Algerian trilogy Nedjma Kateb Palestine as metaphor of colonial rule and resistance Palestinian guerrilla...

...Chapter Six begins with an explicit refutation of Memmi’s position on Jews and Arabs by the Moroccan Jewish writer Edmond Amran El Maleh. The chapter argues that El Maleh’s representation of Jews in Morocco is inseparable from his disidentification with Israel and his rejection of the European...

...Medieval Arabic anecdote collections regularly contain pious stories of deliverance (faraj) after distress (shiddah) in which recognition inflects the relief with which such narratives tend to end. These stories cater to and display popular sentiment on the whole...

... hermeneutics. The method of esoteric reading, taken originally from the Jewish and Arabic Platonists of the middle ages, is said to be inherently arbitrary and nonverifiable. censorship checks and balances freedom of expression freedom of thought Ideas Platonic liberalism communism and open society...

... based on the minimum description length principle, in line with the approach to morphological learning embodied in John Goldsmith’s Linguistica algorithm. The algorithm is implemented as a computer program named Arabica and evaluated with regard to its ability to learn the system of Arabic noun plurals...

... literature has been relatively minimal over the centuries. Neither Melania is included in the official list of saints and saints' days of the Coptic church. And yet, during the past four decades, the Melanias have made notable appearances in Arabic-language homilies and books produced by church leaders...

... dictionaries, poetry, documents, coins, and inscriptions, written in Persian, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish. Abū Sa‘īd Bahādur Khan Euphrates Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī Muzaffarids Sarbadārs Tīmūr Timurids Arab Iraq Azarbayjan China Diyarbakr Īlgā Noyan Oyrat Shaykh Uvays Jalayir Tabriz Baghdad Chaghatayids...

... grammar with which to organize ideas about humanity and the universe. Medieval Greek-Arabic humoral theories concerning foods, medicines, and diseases whose etiology stems from the natural world appear in simplified but otherwise virtually unchanged form in contemporary rural Malaysia. History Western...

...This chapter looks at the scope of Jewish engagement with Arabic in Jewish communities and organizations in Palestine. It addresses four discrete but interlinked ways and settings in which some Jews encountered, sought out, or deployed Arabic: community Arabic courses provided to kibbutz dwellers...

...This chapter addresses the space widely considered as the sanctum of the monolingual Hebrew society in Palestine (the Hebrew educational system) and explores justifications for the teaching of both Arabic and English to children on several levels. It highlights reflections of two educators—Hayim...

...This concluding chapter discusses the place of Babel in Zion. It shows that the three linguistic pressures of the pre-1948 period—Arabic, German, and English—were increasingly powerful as symbols of specific cultural developments. It also reveals that languages could be symbols to be applauded...

... Secularism Urdu language Westernization Aligarh Monthly Asad Talal Bernal Martin Greece Herzfeld Michael Ifadi Mehdi Keane John Khan Haji Mohammad Maududi Abul Ala Qur?an Sunna Tanqid ?Ulema Ahmad Kalimuddin Ansari Asloob Ahmad Arabic language Azad Abul Kalam Bari Sayyid Abdul Farsi...

..., the book reveals two convergent and enmeshed narratives: on the one hand, the formation of a modern literary paradigm linked to education reform, the rise of a reading public and modern Arabic literature, and on the other hand, the story of what gets blotted out, religious institutions and practices...

...This article, written by Chaoqun Lian, begins by pointing out that in Arabic metalanguage discourse one often encounters metaphors associating the form and situation of Arabic to non-linguistic entities and activities. Many of these metaphors, according to Lian, belong to ‘organic metaphors...

...This article, written by Maisalon Dallashi, relates to a rather tragic survey which demonstrated a significant decline in knowledge of Arabic among Arab Jews following their immigration to Israel. The survey results, presented here in English for the fi rst time, form the backdrop for an analysis...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the lives and afterlives of Arabic and Hebrew in Israeli literature, culture, and society. Hebrew is the spiritual, historical, and ideological cornerstone of the State of Israel, and Hebrew literature, having accompanied...

...This chapter considers the origins of Arabic prose poem which, as understood by the Beiruti modernists, seemed to arise from an act of auscultation, or attention to interior rhythms. But how do these rhythms synchronize with the dynamism of modernity? How does the private music of the prose poem...

... revolutions. The intent in relating this history is to bring the story of Arabic modernism as close as possible up to the present as well as to investigate its afterlives, its ability to adapt itself to new conjunctions. Adonis ESSAYS AND LECTURES POEMS Iranian Revolution Khomeini Ruhollah Nahar al...