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Verschiedene Sprachen und Literaturen
Langues et littératures diverses
English Titles
Jamal Assadi (ed . and transl .)
The Story of a People
he Story of a People is the sixth in a series
of volumes on Palestinian writers
who compel into unity the contradictions of
being Israeli citizens as well as sons and
daughters of the Palestinian people . This volume
contains the works of forty poets, and
offers a variety of themes, styles, contexts,
imagery, tones, and language .
The poets, arranged alphabetically, depict
a faithful picture of the various aspects
of Arab life among what is called, paradoxically,
Israeli-Palestinian societies . They present
new arenas where opposing factors harmoniously
join to struggle for dignity, freedom,
and justice . Readers of this volume will encounter
serious poems strewn with light and
humorous themes and poems of sensual and
spiritual love interwoven with poems of the
unusual and political . These Israeli- Palestinian
poets’ distinctive flavor emerges from
their ability to challenge norms, fight oppression,
and burst open closed doors to tell their
own stories – the stories of their plight, alienation,
marginalization, and hopes and
dreams – in a new magnified voice, first to
their community, then to their people and
Jamal Assadi (ed .)
Ibrahim Mālik
The Man and His Selected Works
Edited and translated
by Jamal Assadi
With Assistance from Simon Jacobs
→ p. 3
An Anthology of Palestinian Poets
within the Green-Lines
Edited and translated by Jamal Assadi
With Assistance from Simon Jacobs
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012 .
XVIII, 231 pp .
hb . ISBN 978-1-4331-1603-2
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nation, then to their country, and now to the
wider English-speaking public .
JaMal assaDi is a lecturer at An-Najah
National University, Nablus and chairs the
English Department at the College of Sakhnin
for Teacher Education . He received his PhD
in English literature from the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne in England . In addition
to numerous articles in professional journals,
Dr . Assadi is the author of Acting, Rhetoric,
and Interpretation in Selected Novels by
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow (2006); A
Distant Drummer: Foreign Perspectives on
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007); Mohammad Ali Taha’s
«A Rose to Hafeeza’s Eyes» and Other Stories
(2008); Father and Son: Selected Short Fiction
by Hanna Ibrahim Elias and Mohammad Ali
Saeid (2009); Three Voices from the Galilee:
Selected Short Stories by Mohammad Nafaa,
Zaki Darwish and Naji Daher (2010); Mustafa
Murrar: «The Internal Pages» and Other Stories
(2010); Loud Sounds from the Holy Land:
Short Fiction by Palestinian Women (2011); and
The Road to Self-Revival: Sufism, Heritage, Intertextuality
and Meta-Poetry in Modern Arabic
Poetry (2011) .
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Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst
The (Hi)story of Nobiin –
1000 Years of Language Change
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 252 pp ., 1 graph
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t is not often that we can observe language
change in a language over a period of more
than one thousand years . Nobiin-Nubian is
the only language of the Nilo-Saharan phylum
amongst African languages where this is
possible . This book analyzes processes of language
change and grammaticalization in this
language based on textual evidence from Old
Nobiin, written between the 8th and the 15th
century, as well as from Modern Nobiin . At
the same time the study of the non-religious
texts in Old Nobiin gives new insights into
history, culture and society of Medieval Nubia
. As so far most of the work on Old Nobiin
has been done by classical scholars and the
texts are available only in non-transcribed
and non-segmented form, the numerous examples
from the texts may serve to interest
scholars with different backgrounds for the
interesting subject of language change in Nobiin
as well as the medieval history of Nubia .
Marianne BeCHHaus-Gerst is Professor
of African Studies at the University of Cologne
. She is a historian, historical linguist and
sociolinguist . Her major research interests include
languages and history of the Sudan, colonial
history and postcolonial studies .
Sabaheta Gačanin
The Persian Divan
by Ahmad Khatem Aqovalizade
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 461 pp .
Leipziger Beiträge zur Orientforschung . Bd . 28
Herausgegeben von Hans-Georg Ebert
hb . ISBN 978-3-631-61561-4
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his book offers an analysis model providing
a descriptive selection of linguistic
features from a stylistic aspect, as well
as an interpretation from a semantic aspect,
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