Download or read book The Arabian Nightmare written by Robert Irwin and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cult classic that “combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole” (Publishers Weekly). The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to sleep, guides the reader through the narrow streets of Cairo—a mysterious city full of deceit and trickery. He narrates a complex tangle of dreams and imaginings that describe an atmosphere constantly shifting between sumptuously learned experiences, erotic adventure, and dry humor. The result is a thought-provoking puzzle box of sex, philosophy, and theology, reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco. “Deft and lovely . . . The smooth steely grip of Irwin’s story-telling genius is a joy to read.” —The Washington Post “The Arabian Nightmare is a conceit worthy of Borges.” —The New York Times “[Irwin’s] fascination for inner perception, helped along with a delight in Scheherazadian frames and exotic lore, makes for quite a rich experience: a strangely playful construct that, like an intricate Chinese box, delights with each unexpected combination and hidden drawer.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Arabian Nightmare written by Warren Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remo and Chiun face a diabolical dictator and a female fiend in a middle eastern hell. The Middle East is near war, and Remo and Kali are dancing the Tandava, while moving the world towards destruction. Chiun must use the Sword of Sinanju-it's that serious. How can they both deal with such powerful forces when they are at their weakest? They must save themselves to save the world.

Download or read book The Arabian Nightmare written by Robert Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Arabian Nightmare written by Robert Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stranger Magic written by Marina Warner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.

Download or read book Behind the Veil written by Lydia Laube and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia in a society that does not allow women to drive, vote, or speak to a man alone. Wearing head-to-toe coverings in stifling heat, and battling administrative apathy, Lydia Laube kept her sanity and got her passport back.

Download or read book Arabian Nightmare written by Richard Arnot and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabian Nightmare by Richard Arnot A true story of tragedy, betrayal and a fight for truth JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA, 20 MAY, 1979, FIRST LIGHT: A British nurse and Dutch tugboat captain are found dead, allegedly falling 23 metres to their deaths from a balcony. Saudi Arabian authorities arrest Richard Arnot, his wife Penny, and anyone who attended Dr Arnot's party the previous night. The suspects are arrested and imprisoned in a crowded, hot and dirty jail, fearing for their lives. After bearing the brunt of fabricated lies and rumours of innuendo, conspiracy and obsession, Richard finally tells the remarkable story of true events that happened in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1979...

Download or read book The Annotated Arabian Nights Tales from 1001 Nights The Annotated Books written by Paulo Lemos Horta and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully.” —Yasmine Al-Sayyad, New Yorker A magnificent and richly illustrated volume—with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images—of the most famous story collection of all time. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights, the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a splendid new selection of tales from the Nights, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and definitively bringing the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism and into the twenty-first century. For centuries, readers have been haunted by the homicidal King Shahriyar, thrilled by gripping tales of Sinbad’s seafaring adventures, and held utterly, exquisitely captive by Shahrazad’s stories of passionate romances and otherworldly escapades. Yet for too long, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton, Edward Lane, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations break decisively with this masculine dynasty, finally stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings while reclaiming the vitality and delight of the stories, as she works with equal skill in both Arabic and French. Included within are famous tales, from “The Story of Sinbad the Sailor” to “The Story of the Fisherman and the Jinni,” as well as lesser-known stories such as “The Story of Dalila the Crafty,” in which the cunning heroine takes readers into the everyday life of merchants and shopkeepers in a crowded metropolis, and “The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni,” an example of a ransom frame tale in which stories are exchanged to save a life. Grounded in the latest scholarship, The Annotated Arabian Nights also incorporates the Hanna Diyab stories, for centuries seen as French forgeries but now acknowledged, largely as a result of Horta’s pathbreaking research, as being firmly rooted in the Arabic narrative tradition. Horta not only takes us into the astonishing twists and turns of the stories’ evolution. He also offers comprehensive notes on just about everything readers need to know to appreciate the tales in context, and guides us through the origins of ghouls, jinn, and other supernatural elements that have always drawn in and delighted readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with art from Europe and the Arab and Persian world, the latter often ignored in English-language editions, The Annotated Arabian Nights expands the visual dimensions of the stories, revealing how the Nights have always been—and still are—in dialogue with fine artists. With a poignant autobiographical foreword from best-selling novelist Omar El Akkad and an illuminating afterword on the Middle Eastern roots of Hanna Diyab’s tales from noted scholar Robert Irwin, Horta and Seale have created a stunning edition of the Arabian Nights that will enchant and inform both devoted and novice readers alike.

Download or read book Arab Spring Women s Nightmare written by SHABBIR TANKIWALA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this book "ARAB SPRING WOMEN'S NIGHTMARE" if you are interested in knowing facts about Humanitarian Catastrophe, well studied and unbiased insight of Humanitarian Crisis and Geopolitics, Heart-rending details and narratives of terrifying domestic violence much broader perspective of heinous crimes and atrocities committed against helpless women and children, crimes perpetrated that shames entire humanity "Stoning a woman to death, Incest, Female genital cutting (FGM), Honour killings, Forced Prostitution, Vitriolic Acid attack to disfigure woman's body," this is arguably one of the most moving book ever written on wider Humanitarian crisis.

Download or read book Nightmares in the Saudi Arabian Desert written by Alexandra Symeonidou and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my autobiography, my true story, starting out as a young educated cosmopolitan woman from Athens Greece when life was opening up before me, full of promise. With dreams of living in Paris, the City of Light that I loved so much...However, love beckoned me in the form of a charming Arab with promises of paradise and I decided to leave everything behind, including my dreams. However, my marriage to a handsome important Saudi will become my prison from which escape seems impossible...Will she make it? Will she manage to escape the nightmare and reclaim her right to life?Review"From love story to Arabian nightmare"... "Paris-educated Alexandra Symeonidou was a stewardess at Saudi Arabian Airlines when she fell in love with he pilot colleague. The years of torture she endured are now depicted in her book"... Neos Kosmos - Melbourne, Australia "It took three years to write the book, which was a best seller in Europe, because it was difficult to keep reliving the pain" - The National Herald - New York"If all this sounds like a fairy tale to you, well I can assure you, that if you were with me at this beautiful apartment in Athens, you would not think so. Nothing in this apartment resembled Saudi Arabia, and the lady in front of me was not smiling when talking about her life as presented in her autobiography..." - The Greek Reporter - Los Angeles"From a good life to a nightmarish isolation". - The Hellenic Voice - ChicagoBiographyAlexandra Simeonidou was born and grew up in Athens, Greece. As a French speaker, she studied in France (French and English Literature at the University of Aix- en-Provence and at the Institute of Political Sciences - IEP). She worked for the Greek National Tourist Board at its Paris offices in the Public Relations department. Later, she was employed by the Official Journal of the European Union, a position she left to work as an air hostess with Saudi Airlines. She lives with her son in Athens. Currently, she divides her time between writing and public affairs.

Download or read book Arabian Nightmares written by Henry Naylor and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three timely one-act plays, showing the brutal and bloody impact of the current Middle Eastern crisis on ordinary people.

Download or read book Arabian Nightmare written by Richard Sapir and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remo and Chiun face a diabolical dictator and a female fiend in a middle eastern hell.

Download or read book Look at the Evidence written by John Clute and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Look at the Evidence is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1987 and 1992.

Download or read book The Arabian Nightmare written by Robert Irwin and published by Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a city of sultans, seductresses and apes, English pilgrim and spy Balian of Norwich is pursued through a maze of streets by the Father of Cats, Fatima the Deathly, Shikk the half-man and many others. A disease that seizes the mind, the Arabian Nightmare pervades the darkness of medieval Cairo. It haunts the labyrinth of its streets. It is a dream without awakening, a flight without escape, a tale without end. The Arabian Nightmare was first published in November 1983. It is now regarded as a masterpiece and one of the great works of twentieth century fiction.

Download or read book Arabian Nightmare written by Giles Rokeby and published by Pink Flamingo Media. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She finds freedom in the desert… Her husband discovers enslavement! “You will have to know your place, Edmund,” she said finally; magnificent eyes holding his. “I demand complete respect and perfect obedience from my husband and will expect no less from you. If you do not feel that male pride of yours can countenance the control and command of a woman – and especially a woman who is younger in years than yourself – then you must say so now.” A wealthy and free-spirited woman in the England of Edward VII browbeats her husband into an exploration of the Arabian desert. But when they are abducted by a fierce Sheik she finds her dreams and desires of dominating a male turned upon their head. Though she will experience the control and domination of a male she craves.

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Download or read book Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction written by Brian Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Irwin, Graham Joyce, Michael Shea, plus a major piece, "Against the New Gods," on British SF and crime writer Sydney Fowler Wright. Complete with Bibliography and Index.