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The following are collections of stories inspired by Arab tales written for children ages 6 and above. These stories contain valuable lessons and wisdom for the readers and provide a brief insight into Arab lore and culture.

Until recently, Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Yet Arabs have left a permanent imprint on Brazil: from the legacy of Muslim Iberia, transmitted by Portuguese settlers, to waves of Arab immigrants since the late nineteenth century, to the prominence today of Brazilians of Arab descent in politics, the economy, literature, and culture. The first book of its kind, Arab ...

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This first volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature to focus on an Arab author or Arabic literature provides an introduction to Mahfouz. Topics covered include the Arabian Nights tradition in Mahfouz's work, the challenge of teaching Mahfouz in English translation, the Nasserite intellectual in The Beggar, the image of Alexandria in Miramar, the bitterness of British occupation in Midaq Alley, and the quest of Sufism in...

The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions encompasses the genesis of the Arabic novel in the second half of the nineteenth century and its development to the present in every Arab country, as well as Arab immigrant writing in many languages around the world.

Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key Arab American and Arab British writers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.

Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world's best-known writer and the single most important chronicler and analyst of twentieth-century Egypt. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, and since then his work has been increasingly studied in North American university classrooms. This first volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature to focus on an Arab author or Arabic literature provides an introduction to Mahfouz.In p...

In this book, the literature on modern estuarine diatoms from Argentina is revised in order to synthesise the available ecological information and to detect possible modern analogues for Quaternary diatom assemblages. The main objective is to build bridges between ecology and paleoecology, and to discuss the reaches and limitations of the different approaches to diatom-based paleoenvironmental reconstructions.

When Niall Roberts and his family move to the sleepy village of Oakhill to open a traditional sweet shop, all is not as it first seems within their new home. Niall discovers a secret that teases his curiosity, leading him to a hidden world full of possibility.

Undertaking a sustained interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories, this study focuses primarily on the ways in which his work depicts the clashing of Arab ideologies - that is, questions of tradition, modernity, imperialism, gender and political authority.

This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establish a specific form of Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh al-aqalliyyat attempts to strike a balance between Muslim's religious commitments and their civic identity as citizens in Western liberal states.

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards.

Rising sea levels on coastal areas could induce adverse direct impacts.Those impacts of sea level rise will induce indirectly various impacts on different live hood activities and natural environment. In order to assess overall coastal vulnerability, it should take into account physical and social vulnerability. This study focused on specific physical and social factors that have influence on the coastal vulnerability in the study area.The stu...

This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establish a specific form of Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh al-aqalliyyat attempts to strike a balance between Muslim's religious commitments and their civic identity as citizens in Western liberal states.

This book presents a case study on a new approach for the optimum design of rooftop, grid-connected photovoltaic-system installation. The study includes two scenarios using different brands of commercially available PV modules and inverters. It investigates and compares several different rooftop grid-connected PV-system configurations taking into account PV modules and inverter specifications. The book also discusses the detailed dynamic MATLA...

In the wake of the recent economic crises with few new viable discorveries, need for efficient management of the existing hydrocarbon resources becomes inevitable. Immiscible EOR is a common secondary recovery method. An experimental investigation of 4-D performance monitoring of an immiscible EOR scheme, using a simulated reservoir consisting of ceramic beads is explained. In essence the study covers various investigations through porous or g...

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards.

IEEE 802.11 based Ad-Hoc Network has some parameters to tune performance of network in different environments. In this book, authors discussed about these parameters and finally focused on a particular one, RTS-Threshold. Here, previous work on this parameter is compared. After that, authors proposed an efficient algorithm to tune RTS-Threshold's value adaptively to optimize network performance.

The first book-length interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's fiction.