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15 produkter
Iraqi Nights
Häftad, 2014
181 kr
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The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this …
Beekeeper
Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
Häftad, 2018
180 kr
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Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women.The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who …
Tablets
Secrets of the Clay
Häftad, 2024
195 kr
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“A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth”—Dunya Mikhail In her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world’s first symbols—Sumerian glyphs that were carved onto clay tablets—into the matter of our everyday …
Beekeeper of Sinjar
Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
E-bok, 2018
131 kr
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In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won''t convert to Islam. These …
In Her Feminine Sign
Häftad, 2019
142 kr
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A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2019 Wild Card SelectionAt the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhail’s luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, `the tied circle’ – a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into …
Beekeeper of Sinjar
Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
Häftad, 2019
136 kr
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In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These …
Tablets
Secrets of the Clay
Häftad, 2024
161 kr
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'A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth' — Dunya MikhailIn her marvellous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols – Sumerian glyphs that were carved into clay tablets – into the matter of our everyday …
Das Vogel-Tattoo
Roman
E-bok, 2024
237 kr
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Ein ergreifender Roman über eine jesidische Familie im Nordirak, die durch den IS auseinandergerissen wird. Helen, eine junge Jesidin, lebt mit ihrer Familie in einem abgelegenen Bergdorf. Hier stehen die Häuser Tag und Nacht offen, und wenn Besuch erwartet wird, kommen alle Dorfbewohner zusammen. …
War Works Hard
Av Dunya Mikhail, Elizabeth Winslow
Häftad, 2005
181 kr
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Revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award. "Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes in The War Works Hard, a revolutionary work by an exiled Iraqi poether first to appear in English. Amidst the ongoing atrocities in Iraq, here is an …
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea
Häftad, 2009
195 kr
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Mikhail writes: “Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand.”The two halves of Mikhail's book merge past and present in a lyrical memoir that moves between memories of her childhood, her father's death, her Iraqi …
Fifteen Iraqi Poets
Häftad, 2013
127 kr
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Fifteen Iraqi Poets compiles fifteen poems, each written by a different, prominent twentieth-century Iraqi poet. Selected, with commentary, by award-winning Iraqi-American poet, Dunya Mikhail, this little anthology is the perfect introduction to a glorious literature that traces its roots back to …
Poetry Pamphlets 9-12
Av Osama Alomar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
388 kr
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This bundle of four Poetry Pamphlets (9-12 in the series) includes:Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts Cries LaughterOsama Alomar's Fullblood ArabianOliverio Girondo's Poems to Read on a StreetcarFifteen Iraqi Poets (edited by Dunya Mikhail)
In Her Feminine Sign
Häftad, 2019
170 kr
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In Her Feminine Sign follows on the heels of Dunya Mikhail's devastating account of Daesh kidnappings and killings of Yazidi women in Iraq, The Beekeeper. It is the first book she has written in both Arabic and English, a process she talks about in her preface, saying "The poet is at home in both …
Theory of Absence
Häftad, 2013
54 kr
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Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of The Theory of Absence by Dunya Mikhail (Iraq) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual …
