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Varför används religion för att motivera hänsynslöst våld? Och är det möjligt att modernisera islam? Som engagerad intellektuell och poet diskuterar Adonis i Våld och islam många av de teman som han ständigt återkommer till i sin diktning: religio...

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In the last three decades, Somalia has been associated with such horrible terms as 'state collapse', 'civil wars', 'foreign intervention', 'warlordism', 'famine', 'piracy' and 'terrorism'. This depiction was in contradiction to its earlier images ...

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The collapse of the postcolonial Somali state in 1991 and the consequent outbreak of  civil war  drastically transformed the socio-political landscape in Somalia. Somalis  reverted to the pre-colonial state of affairs and sought ref...

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The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking, something almost like mystica...

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Sju män tillbringar en sensommarhelg i en sliten sommarstuga på den svenska landsbygden. I mitten av 1990-talet sjöng de tillsammans i sånggruppen Adonis i Lund. Nu ses de igen - nästan alla. En är död, en är inte bjuden. Alla bär de på sina minne...

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I denna bok (som består av fyra föreläsningar hållna vid Collège de France, 1984) sammanfattar Adonis över ett kvarts sekel av forskning om arabisk poesi och kultur. Det är en analys som arbetar på flera plan samtidigt, och som tar sin början i de...

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"Det är varmt. Det är viktigt att dricka", sa han och lutade flaskan mot hennes mun. De mörka ögonen borrade sig in i hennes när han lät vattnet rinna. Lite hamnade i munnen, det mesta bredvid. Rännilarna av vatten lämnade ett spår av gåshud efter...

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'Maana-Faay has an enduring quality that sets it apart from many of its contemporaries. It achieves what Max'd Afrax, the author, sets out to do with a plot that is irresistibly well-constructed. I have loved re-reading it and believe that this En...

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Ninar Esber frågar ut sin far, poeten Adonis, under tio mycket närgångna samtal ¿ om hans skolgång, om hans förhållande till islam, till poesin, till sitt födelseland Syrien och till Libanon, där familjen bodde till dess att kriget bröt ut. Hon fr...

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When her personal copy of the current Finance Act is found a few metres away from a body, young barrister Julia Larwood finds herself caught up in a complex fight against the Inland Revenue.Set to have a vacation away from her home life and the ta...

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Ny och reviderad upplaga av "En tid mellan askan och rosorna". I boken medföljer en CD med Adonis egen uppläsning av sina dikter på arabiska.

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Adonis poetiska verk har fått erkännande som ett av vår tids mest uppseendeväckande. Det har också under mer än tre decennier följts av en reflexion över skrivandets villkor och betydelse i arabvärlden. De essäer som presenteras i denna samling er...

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Varför används religion för att motivera hänsynslöst våld? Och är det möjligt att modernisera islam? Som engagerad intellektuell och poet diskuterar Adonis i Våld och islam många av de teman som han ständigt återkommer till i sin diktning: religio...

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Denna volym omfattar första delen i ett större arbete, trebandsverketAl-Kitab (''Boken'') utgivet mellan 1995 och 1999. ''Boken'' är en omfattande fantasirik rekonstruktion av den störste klassiske arabiske poeten al-Mutanabbis liv och verk.

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Growing numbers of young men are taking the quest for perfect muscles, skin and hair too far, crossing the line from normal interest to pathological obsession. For the first time, three of the world's leading authorities on men help us to understa...

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For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a survey of a remarkable country, but a quest for the gods and divinities who held the secrets of death and...

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for soprano and piano With specially written poems by Krlis Verdin based on the Adonis chapters from Frazer's The Golden Bough, each song in this little cycle explores a single Affekt.

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This is a study of the political role and activities of the peerage, both inside and outside Parliament, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Andrew Adonis reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the House of Lords, and shows how...

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Roy Jenkins was a dominating figure in British politics across the four decades before his death in 2003, with an impact and legacy greater than many prime ministers of the period. These essays, by friends and associates of Roy Jenkins from every ...

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'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent, part-Orpheus, part-Zarathustra. Where he goes, the a...

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Ancient sources and modern scholars have often represented the Athenian festival of Adonis as a marginal and faintly ridiculous private womens ritual. Seeds were planted each year in pots and, once sprouted, carried to the rooftops, where women la...

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Ancient sources and modern scholars have often represented the Athenian festival of Adonis as a marginal and faintly ridiculous private women's ritual. Seeds were planted each year in pots and, once sprouted, carried to the rooftops, where wo...

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The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems hav...

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A cri de cur on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an ...

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A cri de cœur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a d...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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