Lebanon: Through Writers' Eyes [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1906011273 ISBN 13: 9781906011277

Casa editrice: Eland Pub Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

Lebanon has fallen prey to the rapacious appetites of most of the world's great powers - France, Ancient Egypt, Rome, Assyria, Alexander the Great, the Arabs, Crusaders, Persians, Mamlukes and Ottoman Turks. Vestiges of all these transient civilisations are still there: Phoenician tombs and Roman temples, Gothic castles, venerable mosques and churches all jostling for attention. The Lebanese themselves bear genetic witness to this history: dozens of ethnic and religious groups coexist uneasily, hemmed in between mountains and sea, stubbornly defending their rites and traditions in a mosaic-like society where politics informs religion and vice versa. Violence, beauty, poetry, struggle, humour, an occasional example of inspiring inter-cultural harmony - and bigotry - all are reflected through these writers' eyes.

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L'autore:

Ted Gorton came early to Oriental studies, spending formative years in Turkey where his father was the US military attche, and studying at the American University or Beirut in the 1960's. He later took a doctorate in Arabic Studies from Oxford and lectured at St.Andrews University, from where he was lured wawy to Arabia, spending 25 years in the oil business before returning to his first love, Arabic poetry. He has published extensively on Hispano-Arabic poetry in scholarly journals as well as preparing two collections, Andalucia and Arabia, for Eland's Poetry of Place series.

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• Editore: Eland Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906011273
• ISBN 13: 9781906011277
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 295
• Redattore: Gorton J. T., Gorton A. Feghali