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East-West Divan: In Memory of Werner Mark Linz

Editat de Aran Byrne Cuvânt înainte de El Hassan bin Talal
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 feb 2015
This collection of scholarly essays on Egyptian culture, history, society, archeology, literature, art, and conservation is published in memory of Werner Mark Linz, who spent much of the latter part of his professional life as the Director of the American University in Cairo Press. East-West Divan is the first volume of the Gingko Library, a publishing project that embraces scholarship from both East and West, conceived by Werner Mark Linz to foster greater cross-cultural understanding. Among the contributors to this collection are the Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building; Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass; the renowned Swiss theologian, Hans Küng; the author of the acclaimed A Fort of Nine Towers, Qais Akbar Omar; and Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781909942028
ISBN-10: 1909942022
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 30
Dimensiuni: 152 x 241 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Gingko Library
Colecția Gingko Library

Cuprins

Foreword - HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal
The Life of a Passionate Publisher - Peter Clark
We Need Bridge-Builders – Hans Küng
I Do Not Recall – Alaa Al Aswany
From the German Library to the Library of Thought – Joachim Sartorius
The Gingko Library - Harry Hall
Egypt in 1919 – T. G. Fraser
The Early Novels of Gamal al-Ghitani – Rasheed El-Enany
Seeing Egypt Through Artists’ Eyes – Bruno Ronfard
Shakespeare in Kabul – Qais Akbar Omar and Stephen Landrigan
Mohamed Ali Pasha – merchant, warrior and statesman – Prince Abbas Hilmi
Living History in Cairo’s City of the Dead – Agnieszka Dobrowolska and Jaroaw Dobrowolski
Hope on the Horizon for Egypt’s Unemployed Youth – Sarah E. Schwepcke
Goodbye, My Friend – Zahi Hawass
Acknowledgements

Notă biografică

Aran Byrne studied Arabic and Persian at SOAS, University of London, and completed a Master’s in Oriental studies at the University of Oxford.