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"Mansour al-Jazaïri is on his way to his public execution. As his faithful friend Hussein looks on, the crowd calls for his head. Gassouh! Gassouh! It is a time when age-old rituals play out amid skyscrapers and are replayed on smartphone screens in the air-conditioned corridors of shopping malls. Set over the course of a single day in the Saudi Arabian capital, Mansour's Eyes weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour's great-grandfather,...
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La abundancia de opiniones en torno a Medio Oriente no ha resultado en una mejor comprensión de esa parte del mundo, ni mucho menos de la cultura árabe. Por el contrario, el ruido mediático ha alentado prejuicios, malentendidos, lugares comunes y sentencias morales. En este contexto, se vuelve imprescindible una reflexión más detenida, que permita sentar las bases para pensar Medio Oriente con claridad. En un escenario donde se entrecruzan nervios...
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Four out of ten Americans say they dislike Muslims, according to a Gallup poll. "Muslims," a blogger wrote on www.freerepublic.com, "don't belong in America." In a lively, funny, and revealing riposte to these sentiments, journalist Jonathan Curiel offers a tour through the little-known Islamic past, and present, of American culture. From highbrow to pop, from lighthearted to profound, this book reveals the Islamic and Arab influences before our eyes,...
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