eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Author: Jean Said Makdisi
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Both an autobiography of Makdisi--born in Jerusalem, raised in Egypt, educated in the West, and a resident of Beirut since 1972--and a biography of the city, transformed by 15 years of civil war from grandeur to ruins. Published by Persea Books, 60 Madison Avenue, New York, 10010. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Andrew Arsan
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 1849047006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.
Author: Franck Salameh
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 3319996673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system.
Author: Ghenwa Hayek
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-10-29
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0857725327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But to what extent has the city affected and shaped the formation and perceptions of Lebanese national identity? Ghenwa Hayek here explores how anxieties over the past, present and future of Beirut have been articulated through a sense of dislocation present in Lebanese writing since the 1960s. Drawing on theories of cultural studies, geography and history, the author uses an interdisciplinary framework to explore the role that spaces - from rural to urban - have played and continue to play in the defining, and re-defining, of national identity in the seventy years since the creation of the Lebanese nation state. This theoretical perspective coupled with a close reading of little-explored contemporary writings lead Hayek to question the predominant assumption that Lebanese novelists only became engaged in discourses about place identity and individual and social belonging with the start of the fifteen-year civil war and the destruction of Beirut's city centre. Instead, the book shows that particular geographical imaginaries have been mobilized to describe, question and debate Lebanese identity since the 1960s and that some go back even further into the late nineteenth century. This re-reading calls for a re-evaluation of some of the most predominant assumptions about Lebanon and the processes of Lebanese identity formation across the country's modern history. Examining a wide range of modern and contemporary literature, Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity.
Author: Caroline Rooney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1135136521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film and art. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of representation on questions of extreme emotional investment, comparing representations of the siege to representations of other traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications with respect to comparative approaches. Chapters explore how literature, journalism and art contribute to overcoming the dangers of forgetting and denial, memorial excess and fundamentalism, the radicalization of violence, and the complete breakdown of trust on international levels, asking how they challenge geopolitical, intellectual, and psychological states of siege and instead promote awareness, acknowledgement, mourning, and justice across divided communities. The book extends the use of postcolonial methodologies affiliated with history, international relations, and psychoanalysis (memory, trauma) to Middle-Eastern studies, and visits the siege’s effect on different forms of memory and memorialization: selective memory, trauma, gaps and fissures in historical accounts, recording of eyewitness reports, and artistic re-imaginings and realizations of alternative archives.
Author: Tjitze Baarda
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9789004056855
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: T. Baarda
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9004266585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Preliminary Material /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- The Study of the New Testament in the Netherlands, 1951-1976 /W. C. van Unnik -- A Fragment of Paul at Amsterdam (0270) /J. Smit Sibinga -- LC. XXIV 12 Les Témoins Du Texte Occidental /F. Neirynck -- The Author of the Arabic Diatessaron /T. Baarda -- Jeremias Hoelzlin: Editor of the 'Textus Receptus ' Printed by the Elzeviers Leiden 1633 /H. J. de Jonge -- Probleme Und Impulse Der Neutestamentlichen Apokalyptik /P. L. Schoonheim -- From Creation to Noah in the Second Dream-Vision of the Ethiopic Henoch /A. F. J. Klijn -- Marcus Gnosticus and the New Testament: Eucharist and Prophecy /J. Reiling -- In Ihren Zelten /J. Helderman -- Index of Authors /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- Index of Subjects /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- Index of References /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik.
Author: William L. Petersen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9004312927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gospel harmony composed c. 172 C.E., the Diatessaron is one of the earliest witnesses to the gospels. Regarded as the first version of the gospels in Latin, Syriac, and Armenian, the Diatessaron was used by Encratites, Judaic-Christians, and “Great Church” Christians alike. This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the Diatessaron in more than a century. After sketching the second-century setting and Tatian's biography, it describes virtually every Diatessaronic witness and provides a scholar-by-scholar summary of research from 546 to the present. Criteria for reconstructing Diatessaronic readings are developed, and numerous examples offer the reader first-hand experience with the witnesses. It contains the first Bibliography of research on the Diatessaron (600+ titles) and the first “Catalogue of Manuscripts of Diatessaronic Witnesses and Related Works” ever published.
Author: Jumana Bayeh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-10-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0857736175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex relationships between place, displacement and belonging, and illuminates the ways in which these writings have shaped a global Lebanese identity. Combining history with sociology, Bayeh examines how the literature borne out of this expatriate community reflects a Lebanese diasporic imaginary that is sensitive to the entangled associations of place and identity. Paving the way for new approaches to understanding diasporic literature and identity, this book will be vital for researchers of migration studies and Middle Eastern literature, as well as those interested in the cultures, history and politics of the Middle East.
