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Gibran fu un poeta e filosofo libanese. Di religione cristiano-maronita, di adozione statunitense, fu punto di riferimento per molti letterati arabi emigrati negli Stati Uniti. Le sue opere, che vogliono richiamare ad una spiritualità che trascende le religioni, furono tradotte in oltre venti lingue.

A collection of poems by Kourosh Beigpour. The audiobook is published by H&S Media and is in the Persian language. Narrated by its poet. Music by Farzad Golpaygani.

Une route bordée de soie, de 12000 km de long, fait rêver depuis des siècles l'Orient et l'Occident. Une route qui traverse ici, la Chine, le Kirghizistan, l'Ouzbékistan, l'Afghanistan, l'Irak, la Turquie et la Grèce. Elle chemine aux sommets de montagnes ardues, de steppes de velours, de villes enchanteresses. Le vent murmure au voyageur des récits âpres et sauvages, où ces peuples d'Asie centrale vivent en symbiose et en lutte perpétuelle avec une nature aussi grandiose que cruelle.

Stillness in a Storm by Saied Ramezani is a unique collection of contemporary Persian poetry that follows classic Persian style and is translated into English. This short collection contains both the Persian and English versions of each poem, recited to background music provided by Smartsound. Both renditions of each poem are performed to the same music to provide a mirror reflection of the work in each language.

Dans cet ouvrage simple et universel, le grand écrivain libanais Khalil Gibran aborde les questions et les problèmes que pose la vie et y répond par la poésie.

The author's poetry answers questions about how life in the Middle East is viewed: What is it like to live through numerous wars? Why do Christians from the Middle East live in diaspora? How do those in the Middle East live in peace? What is it like to have been a Bedouin, and later forced to settle down?

Gibran Jalil Gibran (Yibran Jalil Yibran ibn Mija'il ibn Sa'd era su nombre completo en árabe) fue un poeta, pintor, novelista y ensayista libanés. Nace en la ciudad de Bisharri, al norte de Beirut, Líbano, el 6 de enero de 1883, de niño aprende de varias personas, entre ellas su abuelo materno, del conocimiento del arte y del saber universal, que fueron base para la literatura y la pintura. en 1895. Emigra a los Estados Unidos con su madre, Kamile Rahme (quefallece en 1903).

Gibrán Jalil Gibrán, el poeta árabe más conocido del siglo XX, nació en Becharre, Líbano, en 1883. Su primera obra literaria,Espíritus rebeldes, fue quemada en una plaza pública de Beirut por considerarse un libro peligroso y revolucionario. Gibrán fuedesterrado por el gobierno de su país y excomulgado por su iglesia.

This work of fiction covers the journey of Ahmad, a man fleeing Iraq during the rule of Saddam Hussein, to seek refuge in the United States. He is escaping because the Iraqi government has been torturing him for years thinking he is a CIA agent. Ironically, he faces an interesting ordeal in the hands of the United States Immigration.

The translator Shaida does something altogether breathtaking in the expansive and lovely poems found in Khusro, the Indian Orpheus: A Hundred Odes, a collection of 100 translated poems by Khusro, an Indian musician, scholar, and poet of Persian descent. Fans of Rumi, the translations of Coleman Barks in particular, and Persian poets in general will delight in this current and timeless effort.

The poems in Faiz, a Wailing Nightingale establish Faiz as a great lyricist who embraced traditional motifs and subjects with an unrivaled passion and proclivity for verse that explores the natural and illusory qualities of love. Yet, as the title of the collection asserts, Faiz was a wailing nightingale-a tortured man who loved beauty, but found himself surrounded by the pain, sorrow, poverty, bloodshed, and tears of daily life in post-Colonial Pakistan.

Pocos libros poseen al mismo tiempo una profundidad, una frescura y una poesía comparables a las de El Profeta, de Khalil Gibran. Gibran trata de impulsar al lector a cambiar su forma de vida basándose principalmente en llevarla de una forma equilibrada con respecto a la divinidad y la paz interior. Para Gibran los obstáculos y vicisitudes del mundo son solo pruebas que permiten al hombre evolucionar y avanzar por el camino hacia la purificación, así nos demuestra que el mundo será mejor cuando los hombres sean capaces de acercarse y convivir

The Prophet is a book of 26 simple prose fables written in by the fabled Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf and is Gibran's best known work.

Deserts of sand and deserts of the heart, Middle Eastern deserts and American deserts: Two Deserts, a collection of stories, follows the circles of two unforgettable women across cultures and deserts. The Arabian circle includes a 17-year-old girl yearning for freedom and a Muslim mother plotting to rescue her son from a jihadist movement. The American circle includes a hooker who is training her daughter for the life, a priest in love, and a club of women whose husbands are dying.

In Kabirist in Love, Ji Strangeway confides in the 15th-century Indian mystic poet Kabir through poems full of tenderness and yearning. Kabir inhabits her poems as a living presence, both soulmate and muse. Strangeway examines in equal measure the profane and exalted aspects of life, searching for essential truths only to be met with paradox. Her verses present unanswerable riddles and tension that reveals how touching the face of the ineffable is a desirable poetic and spiritual state.

The only play written by him in his long career, Tiger Tiger serves as the perfect site for Singh to showcase a vast array of characters whose lives get intertwined due to unavoidable circumstances. Through this, he is able to present a critique of society and its double standards, using this opportunity to explore some of his favourite themes like cultural difference, prejudice, hypocrisy and deception.

"Memduh Şevket Esendal Bütün Eserleri" dizisinin ilk kitabı olan Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları, yazarın en önemli yapıtlarından biridir. 1946 CHP Roman Ödülü'nü de alan yapıtta Memduh Şevket Esendal, cumhuriyetin ilk yıllarındaki Ankara'dan bir kesit sunar. Eğitimleri, uğraşları, dünya görüşleri farklı insanların ilişkilerini büyük bir ustalıkla sergiler; onların kişiliklerinde, dönemin bütün özelliklerini yansıtır.

مقتطفات من كتاب علي الدوعاجي (1909.1949) "سهرت منه اللّيالي" : المصباح المظلم / في شاطئ حمام الأنف/ نزهة رائقة/ سهرت منه اللّيالي Nouvelles choisies du livre phare de l’auteur et nouvelliste tunisien Ali Douagi (1909-1949) Sahertou menhou al layali qui font voyager le lecteur dans la Tunisie des années 30-40.

أسطورة لالوبا الذئبة الحمراء ناهد السيد هي قصة واقعية من الحياة تكشف اسرار وأغوار مشاعر وأفكار مرض الكاتبة بالذئبة الحمراء ورحلتها من الحياة إلى الموت ثم النجاة من الموت إلى الحياة

Ehli-nikkalu, eldest daughter of the Hittite emperor, is married to a mere vassal of her father's. But despite her status, her foreignness and inability to produce an heir drive a wedge between her and the court that surrounds her. When her secretary is mysteriously murdered while carrying the emperor a message that would indict the loyalty of his vassal, Ehli-nikkalu adopts the dead man's orphaned children out of a guilty sense of responsibility.