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Andalus
Moorish Songs of Love and Wine
Häftad, 2007
106 kr
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Medieval Andalucia is famous as a land of regrets, the place of the Moorish King's last sigh, where travelers sense the desecration of the great mosque of Cordoba and feel the haunted emptiness of the Alhambra's gilded, plastered domes. This collection of poetry fills those deserted halls with a …
Arabia
A Thousand Years of Arabic Verse
Av T J Gorton
Häftad, 2009
103 kr
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Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It spread and developed wherever the Arabic language came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo as well as in the Arabian heartland. This book takes us on a poetic journey through the Classical age of Arabic poetry, from …
Lebanon
Av Various, T. J. Gorton m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
277 kr
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This book is a record of the people who visited Lebanon from between 1800 BC to the last summer; and of the Lebanese themselves, writing about their homeland, their religions, their joys, their wars and their sorrows. The passages have been selected and presented by Ted Gorton and Andree Feghali …
Beirut Anthology
Travel Writing Through the Centuries
Av T. J. Gorton
Inbunden, 2015
198 kr
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Beirut has seen many armies and empires come and go, but the legacy of this long history is not so much in surviving monuments as in the quintessential Levantine spirit of the people. A commercial hub since the days of the Phoenicians, it was a centre of learning under the Romans, its law school …
Jerusalem Anthology
Travel Writing Through the Centuries
Av T J Gorton
Inbunden, 2017
185 kr
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Jerusalem has a special status as a city that is both terrestrial and celestial. The name includes a cognate for 'peace, ' but the old stones of the city have witnessed epic bloodshed and destruction over the centuries. The three great monotheistic religions all regard it with especial fervor, and …
