Political affairs in the Middle East have been greatly influencing the development of Arab-American literature. Political contexts provided an impetus for Arab-American writers to express political beliefs in their works and address the questions of identity, ideology, and other subjects connected to political actions. Most of the issues considered by writers and researchers of Arab-American literature can also be found in literatures of other “hyphenated” Americans. However, Arab-American literature
Xenophon's works that deal with Spartan society are his Hellenica, a work dealing with the conflicts between Sparta, Athens and Thebes in the period 411–362 BC. Another is his Consitution of the Lacedaemonians which was not intended to be a political analysis of the Spartan constitution and its workings, but rather designed as a pamphlet in praise of Sparta and her customs as established by Lycurgus. Xenophon was biased toward Sparta and greatly admired the Spartan traditions like the agoge which produced
First of all, on the level of the phoneme inventories: contrastive analysis predicts that French learners will have problems with sounds that are not found in their own language; French Speakers are unaccustomed to the sounds found in these words: that, sing. hitch, etc. and find these sounds difficult no matter where they appear in a word. Second of all, on the level of the syllable structure: Contrastive analysis predicts that: (1) French speakers find it challenging to pronounce words or
Hosseini was very much interested in Persian Poetry, especially those of Omar Khayyam, Abdul-Qadir Bedil and his most favorite book was Divan-e-Hafez. Jack London’s White Fang lays an impact to the young immigration of Khlaed Hosseini. During the immigration, Hosseini and his family faced many hurdles and difficulties. These bitter and unforgettable experience are brought out in his first book. The Kite Runner is more autobiographical. He had a deep admiration for Ahmad Zahir, an Afgan singer. His
Muslim started the book with her own experiences being a Muslim. Among the experiences she shared are the instances she had in her childhood years of having a debate with her teacher who couldn’t give her the exact answer to Manji’s curiosity on why girls couldn’t lead prayers, the incident on how she discovered the things that are worth reclaiming in Islam and to the shocking realizations that Manji made about the conflict between Arab and Jews after she had made a travel to
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of