Essays about: "Modern Arabic Literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Modern Arabic Literature.

1. 1. How is the presence of the Palestinians described through their absence? : A narratological reading of Ibtisam Azems novel: The Book of Disappearance

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

   Author : Zamzam Khatab; [2022]
   Keywords : The image of the other; Arab; Jew’s; Arabic literature; Narratology; Ibtisam Azem.;

   Abstract : This thesis is about How the presence of the Palestinians is described through their absence in The Book of Disappearance. The analysis emphasizes the image of the other for both (Palestinians and Israelis). READ MORE

3. 2. National identity in Sonia Nimr’s children’s book Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Tarek Darwich; [2020]
   Keywords : Anderson; National identity; nationalism; Children’s Literature; Palestinian; imagined communities; Sonia Nimr; Wondrous Journey in strange lands; Arab; history; fiction.;

   Abstract : In this thesis, depending on Benedict Anderson’s Studies of nationalism in his book The Imagined Communities, I will prove that in her historical fiction for children, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, the Palestinian writer Sonia Nimr is reviving and reforming Arab national identity. Anderson identifies the nation as a group imagined by its members; the people who perceive and identify themselves as equal members in this group. READ MORE

4. 3. Imagery and Class in Abd el-Malik Nuri’s Short Story The South Wind

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arabiska

   Author : Leila Chaar; [2012]
   Keywords : Abd el-Malik Nuri; Rih al-Janub; The South Wind; Arabic Language; Iraqi Literature; Modern Arabic Literature; The Realistic Short Story; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to analyze selected passages of the short story The South Wind by the Iraqi writer Abd el-Malik Nuri, which was done in order to find out how the description of characters, setting, and events, are related to class. The main research questions dealt with how the use of word choice and imagery are used in connection to the setting and characterization, but also how the events and agentivity are presented, and what they reveal about class. READ MORE

5. 4. Marockansk Arkitektur, traditionell och modern

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Utbildningar i Helsingborg

   Author : Tove Brunzell; Sanaa Duric; [2012]
   Keywords : moroccan architecture; casablanca; climate considerations; the medina; the traditional arabic house; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : This thesis is about traditional and modern architecture in Casablanca, Morocco. Morocco is located in north-western Africa and Casablanca is the country's largest city with a population of 3.3 million (2011). Morocco has a long history with many different rulers which have left its mark on the country's architecture. READ MORE

6. 5. A Comparison of Arabic Literature Translation into English and Swedish : Inverstigating Domestication in the Translation of Arabic Cultural Words - Imarat Yaqubyan as acase in point

   University essay from Tolk- och översättarinstitutet

   Author : Lamia Al Taai; [2011]
   Keywords : Arabic Cultural Words; Arabic-English Translation; Arabic-Swedish Translation; Domestication; False Domestication; Pedersen’s Strategies; The Yacoubian Building; Yacoubians Hus;

   Abstract : Imarat Yaqubyan is a contemporary Arabic novel that encompasses an intensive and variable Arabic culture; this study contains a survey in tables of cultural words, according to Newmark’s categories, “material culture”, “social culture”, “originations”, and  “gestures and habits”, as well as their correspondences in the English and the Swedish translated novel versions. In this tripled language study, Arabic, English and Swedish, I undertake a qualitative comparison between the translation strategies used by each translator of the English and Swedish versions. READ MORE