Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 28 - December 1994
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Art & Architecture
Book Reviews
A Yemen Reality: Architecture Sculptured in Mud and Stone, by Salma Samar Damluji. 355 pages, photos, glossary, maps. Concord, MA: Paul & Company, 1991. $130 (Cloth) ISBN 1-873-938-00-4
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Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition, edited by Michael Beard & Adnan Haydar. (Mohamed El-Hindi Series on Arab Culture and Islamic Civilization) 208 pages, notes, bibliography, index, map. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993. $32.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8156-2567-7
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- 09 March 2016, pp. 266-267
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Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family, by Hanna Mina. Translated by Olive Kenny & Lorne Kenny. (Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series) 187 pages. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. $10.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-292-75155-9
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- 09 March 2016, pp. 267-268
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Glass from Quseir Al-Qadim and the Indian Ocean Trade, by Carol Meyer. (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No. 53) 201 pages, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. Chicago: Oriental Institute Press, 1992. $35 (Paper) ISBN 0-918986-87-7
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Literature & Language
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Agnon’s Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Content in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon, by Nitza Ben-Dov. (Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies) 167 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Leiden & New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. $57.25 (Cloth) ISBN 9004098631
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- 09 March 2016, pp. 268-269
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Architecture of Mughal India, by Catherine B. Asher (New Cambridge History of India I:4) 369 pages, glossary, illustrations, map, bibliographical essays, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. $84.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-26728-5
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Literature & Linguistics
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Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers, by Farzaneh Milani. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) 295 pages, notes, works cited, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992. $34.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8156-2557-X
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Tales Alive in Turkey, edited and translated by Warren S. Walker & Ahmet E. Uysal. 310 pages, 1 photo, 1 map, bibliography, notes, index. (Reprint of the 1966 edition) Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1990. $25 (Cloth) ISBN 0-89672-212-0
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The Concise Arabic-English Lexicon of Verbs in Context, compiled by Ahmed Taher Hassanein & Kamar Mostafa Abdou. 726 pages, index. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1991. (Paper) ISBN 977-424-256-4
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Women’s Autobiographies in Contemporary Iran, edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi. (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs No. 25) 78 pages, notes. Cambridge, MA: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University & Harvard University Press, 1990. $9.95 (Paper) ISBN 0932-885-05-5
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An Introduction to Persian, by Wheeler M. Thackston. (Revised 3rd edition) 287 pages, appendices, vocabularies, index. Bethesda, MD: Iranbooks, Inc., 1993. $25 (Paper) ISBN 0-936347-29-5
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Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Sa’d to Who’s Who, by Ruth Roded. 157 pages, index, bibliography, notes. Boulder & London: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1993. $32 (Cloth) ISBN 1-55587-442-8
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Audiovisuals
Dancing Girls of Lahore, directed and produced by Ahmed A. Jamal for BBC-TV. 40 minutes, VHS. First Take Productions, 1991. Distributed by Filmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, NY 10016. Tel: (212)808-4980 Fax: (212)808-4983
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Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative, edited by Martin Kramer. 143 pages, index. Published in cooperation with the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991. $19.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-815602548-0
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A Little for My Heart and a Little for My God, produced by Grita Landoff for Lindberg Film, HB / Swedish TV, 1993. 60 minutes, VHS. Distributed by Filmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, NY 10016. Tel: (212)808-4980 Fax: (212)808-4983. [French with Arabic & English subtitles]
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Parviz Sayyad’s Theater of Diaspora. Two Plays: The Ass and The Rex Cinema Trial, edited by Hamid Dabashi. Foreword by Peter Chelkowski. 187 pages, photos, notes. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1992. $14.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-939214-94-6
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Egyptian Drama and Social Change: A Study of Thematic and Artistic Development in Yūsuf Idrīs’s Plays, by Dorota Rudnicka-Kassem. 200 pages, bibliography. Cracow: Jagiellonian University, 1993. (Cloth) ISBN 83-900504-9-8
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The Beaming One, directed by Shuukhrat Makkhmudov. Produced by Ibragim Ahmodov. VHS, 19 minutes. Ozma Productions for the Foreign Trade Association, City of Bokhara, 1993. [Uzbek titles, English narration]
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Yūsuf Idrīs (1927-1991): Identitätskrise und Gesellschaftlicher Umbruch, by Birgitta Ryberg. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Band 41) 226 pages, indices, bibliography. Beirut & Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992. 84 DM (Paper) ISBN 3-515-05277-1
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Briefly Noted, New Editions & Reference Works
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- 09 March 2016, pp. 276-278
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