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For bread alone
Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walk to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of his siblings die of malnutrition & neglect & one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. This is a memoir of a young Moroccan boy's coming of age in a time of extreme poverty & degradation.
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NOTES ON THE ARAB BOOM
The 1952 Free Officers Coup in Egypt set in motion a burst of creative commercial activity that touched nearly all corners of the Arab world. Fundamentally at odds with and ultimately transcendent of the ideological parameters of the revolutionary regimes, the art of the post-revolutionary decades constituted an Arab boom, I argue, a broad, transmedial movement epitomized above all by a complex interplay of dialectical forces: doubt and conviction, motion and stasis, individuality and collectivity. Focusing on four prominent examples (from Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco), this article shows that the evolution of the Arab boom occurred neither over time nor space, but in varying degrees of separation between the symbolic imperative of nationalism and the logical extreme of concrete experience. “Form” in this most radical instance becomes “the deeper logic of the content itself” (Jameson, Marxism and Form 329). And it is here, as I suggest in the final section, that the true revolution begins.
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Into-English translations of Maghrebi fiction, life-writing, and theatre written in Arabic, French and Tamazight/Traducciones al inglés de ficción magrebí, autobiografía y teatro escritos en árabe, francés y tamazight
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. Sherazade: Aged 17, Dark Curly Hair, Green Eyes, Missing. [orig. Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. [orig. London: Marion Boyars. 1 This and Bowles's translations of Mrabet are based on recordings of orally transmitted stories for which no printed text exists. 2 This text, a preface to a collection of photographs, was never published in French. 3 Short stories from a range of sources. 4 Ali Ghanem is an alternative transliteration of Ali Ghalem. 5 Pseudonym of Mohammed Moulessehoul.
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Unwanted Literature. A Case of the Moroccan writer Muhammad Šukrī
The history of books that were rejected, condemned, banned or censored in various parts of the world for political, social, religious or sexual reasons is very long. Whereas, however, people in the West have learned to value controversial literature despite its contentious or provocative nature, the societies in the Middle East still have problems with accepting certain sorts of literary works. There are many publications in the Arab World that sum up to a category I call unwanted literature because the conservative society in which they were produced doesn’t want to accept them as their own heritage. One of the most recent and striking examples of such divergence of opinion between the Western and Eastern readers are the works of the Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri and especially his autobiography al-Ëubz al-ÍÁfÐ published in 1973 in English translation by Paul Bowles as For Bread Alone long before the Arabic version could appear.
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FOR WATER ALONE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TAWFIQ ABU WA'IL'S FILM 'ATASH AND MUHAMMAD SHUKRI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS AL-KHUBZ AL-HAFI AND AL-SHUTTAR
Sheetrit analyzes how Tawfiq Abu Wa'il's film 'Atash transposes Shukria's autobiographical themes, motifs and passages onto Wa'il's film, and how this fusion generates meaning. He also explores what the film gains by consciously invoking the modern Arabic literary tradition.
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Analysis: Influence of independent, private media on rise in Egypt
Jail sentences were handed down to four editors-in-chief on 13 September 2007 on charges of slandering state officials. The journalists were Wa'il al-Ibrashi of the weekly Sawt al-Ummah and the presenter of Dream 2 TV's \"The Truth\" programme, Adil Hamudah of the weekly Al-Fajr, Abd-al-Halim Qandil, former editor of the weekly Al-Karamah and Ibrahim Isa of the daily Al-Dustur. [Al-Badil] noted that \"this statement, which was mainly made in order to be leaked, refers to a plan to close down independent newspapers\". This plan included \"targeting independent newspapers that have an effective role in squaring up to the tyranny and corruption of the ruling regime,\" Al-Badil added. Hamdin al-Sabahi, MP and the founder of the opposition Al-Karama Party, told Al-Ahram Weekly in September 2007 that \" an entire generation [of journalists] that had been lost has found a home in the independent arena\". \"This 40-something generation wanted a platform for its own voice, which was quite distinct from that of older peers and which those in senior positions in state-run organizations rejected,\" he added.
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Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri dies
Rabat, 15 November: Moroccan writer [Mohamed Choukri] died on Saturday [15 November] morning following a long period of illness, the Union of Moroccan Writers (UEM) told [Moroccan news agency]...
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(CORR) Analysis: Conservative religious Al-Nas TV gains influence in Egypt
On its website, the channel explains that its aims are to \"serve the nation and spread religious and worldly knowledge\" and \"present distinguished Islamic and social media\". It stresses that its policies are based on \"not violating the teachings of the true tolerant religion of Islam\" and \"respecting all segments of society and Islamic sects and fiqh [jurisprudence] schools\". The channel also says it \"addresses ordinary people and takes an interest in the concerns of the masses\", emphasizing that it depends, for its operating expenditure, on \"commercials\" and \"phone calls\", and that it does not \"accept any donations\". According to the World Islamic Media Organization's website, the Israeli press some months ago launched a sharp attack on Al-Nas TV, describing it as a \"danger\" to the state of Israel. The Israeli press claimed that the TV incites children to attack Jews and declare war on them. The Israeli press and websites said that Al-Nas TV follows the same line as the Lebanese Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV. An Israeli news website quoted some parts of a children's programme presented on Al-Nas, saying that the programme urges children to seek martyrdom and to hate Jews. The Israeli press further claimed that Al-Nas TV is funded by hard-line and \"terrorist\" groups, and it must therefore be shut down.
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