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July 2013But Why Are You Called a Christian?
An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism
by Ernst-Habib, Margit
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November 2022The Doors of the Poem
Tribute to Habib Tengour
by Sagawe Regina Keil, Hervé Sanson
The twenty-seven contributions gathered here and superbly illustrated by Hamid Tibouchi - critical studies and creative texts - pay tribute to a work that is at the forefront of Algerian and, more broadly, contemporary letters, but paradoxically still little-known. On the occasion of Habib Tengour's seventy-fifth birthday, this volume is intended to open up new avenues of research into this work, and provide a more accurate understanding of the issues at stake. Tributes from his peers - poets from all over the world - give the book an affective, carnal dimension, extending the researchers' analyses with unexpected echoes. “Tengour warns us: “Only those with the right intention enter the poem! LES PORTES DU POEME thus opens on one of the most important poetic voices of his generation (Prix Dante in 2016, Prix Benjamin Fondane in 2022, Prix Dante Alighieri in 2023, for his body of work).
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True war & combat storiesWar City Stories
by Habib Ahmadzadeh
"A soldier, after 11 years, wrote a letter to an Iraqi soldier, stating that their son, who had been a member of the Special Forces-23 of the Iraqi Presidential Guards, while escaping, was killed by their own forces and the Iranian soldier buried him, and he had saved the Iranian soldier while Iraqi forces were shooting. The stories of this book are all realistic and have been narrated in two ways: one is by quotation or in the form of a second singular, and the other is the first person sometimes expressed as a dramatic soliloquy. Another feature of some of these stories is that they are narrative. In these stories, humans are equal in terms of individuality and position on both sides of the war. Ahmadzadeh is trying to create people who, apart from the political ideas and military conditions that put them against each other, have chosen humanity in their bottlenecks to overcome this difficult path. In this collection, we have come up with a unique writing style by Ahmadzadeh; using short, but uninterrupted sentences that connect with each other using simple conjunctions. This writing style, with suspense and excitement, brings the reader. Stories have concepts and thoughts other than the apparent subject, and they contain a simple and fluent prose and language. Themes are the other outstanding points of these stories. Also, the titles of some of the stories are worth attention, like “Thirty Nine and One Internees” and “Eagle’s Feather”, which can clarify the story for a typical audience who has not understood the underlying layer of the story. One of the other privileges of these stories is the plot of the stories, which have turned into a script because of their strong idea.The book “War City Stories” contains 8 short stories and their titles are:Eagle's Feather - Airplane - Thirty-Nine and One Internees - Warrior Escape - A Letter to Saad's Family - If There Was Not Darya Gholi - I Will Endure the Weight of This Load to the End - The Letter to the Writer to the American Military and Their Response."
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FictionHalf of Forgetfulness
by Mehrdad Ghafarzadeh
An Iranian photographer, a disabled veteran who was present in the Iraq-Iran war, is going to Barcelona's 1991 Paralympic Games. There he meets other disabled soldiers from two other wars. The author consciously breaks with the traditional ways of writing, and we are dealing, just like our modern world, with incomplete and fragmentary texts. The story, told by different people, lets the reader be familiar with the characters' opinions about the wars. Awards and recognition: Winner of the Habib Ghanipour Literary Prize, 1998. Praised in the 15th Book of the Year Award.
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FictionTodos mis padres
by Fernando Yacamán
This book is a gay-themed novel, set in Mexico City between the eighties of the last century and the present decade. Through its pages we observe the search for the identity of Luis Habib, a young man who lives the gay night of the city, with all its temptations and all its dangers. Luis has several sexual and affective relationships, among them with “El Centauro”, a university professor of Geography, who is married and has a son, and always keeps Luis at a distance. Luis's relationships are almost always with older men, men who in many ways are also cruel and violent, a bit like his father, like "El Coyote".
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November 2013The Arab Avant-Garde
Music, Politics, Modernity
by Edited by Thomas Burkhalter, edited by Kay Dickinson, Benjamin J. Harbert
The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music
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January 2015The Qur-Anic Plants and Animals
by Nazir Ahmad Zeerak
The book is a new and important addition to Quranic Literature. It gives comprehensive information about the plant and animal species cited in the verses of Holy Quran with respect to their biological status, specific characteristics, economic importance and their roles played in evolution and development of human cultures. All the respective verses citing the names of plants and animals or their products have been mentioned in the book and commented upon. The assigning of the proper biological status to them and their specific description have in a better way clarified the events associated with them and the messages and lessons conveyed through them. The book shall prove very useful to the scholars of the Quran and other religious scriptures who integrate science and religion.
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September 2013Critical Theory and Science Fiction
by Carl Freedman
Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory.
