The dust of cities is the misery of history.
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Name: The dust of cities is the misery of history.
Author: Adonis.

Title	The dust of cities is the misery of history.
Title Original	غبارُ المدن بؤسُ التاريخ
Author	Adonis.
Author Original	أدونيس
Publication Date:	2020
Publication Place	Beirut - Dar Al-Saqi
Subject	Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century, Arab countries -- History, Nonfiction, Politics
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	285
Library:	Wesleyan University Library
Library Asset ID	ISBN : 9786140300149, ISBN : 6140300142, ISBN : 614-425-837-X
Record ID	alma9932737045003768
Library Location	See online access
Date	2020
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Sample Text	• Intro •I • Introduction • The obsession with dissent and rejection • Introduction • Solo playing on Damascus guitar • II • Bouazizi’s ashes • “Tahrir Square”: ushering in the beginning of the century? • Tahrir Square, also and also • Words that speak within words: Greetings to Cairo and to June 30 • The thrones and coffins of dictatorships • Cairo Moment: June 30, Tahrir Square • Cell No.... • Greetings to Egypt and to the fields of its liberation • Man, his rights and freedoms, or the abyss • An open letter to the opposition about change in Syria, especially changing the constitution: • Beyond the system, and broader than politics • In light of the Syrian moment • The Syrian moment, once again • For a “democratic Syria” • Syria and inventing the future • Ten theses on the current Arab rebellions • III • About the “West” of the Arabs • A fantasy about the Arabized Atlantic alliance • Between the “Freedom Flotilla” and the “Turkish Presence Fleet” • Big country, small politics • Dread, phobia, terror • Wow Obama! Wa Sarkoza! • The little girl, or the corpse - the image • Islamic awakening? • In light of Gaza • Murder scene • Come, you hungry people • Gaza: Fighting in it, or fighting for it? • Gaza: its tunnels and horizons • An explosion in the lung of meaning • IV • Nilofar package for Arab Liberation Squares • Regimes that did not die, revolutions that were not born... • The grip of tyrants • The ankle of a deer called the desert • The darkness of this conflict • Happy new year and the past • Where is the problem then? • Cunning of the feet • The burden of history • No, you will not enter my house • The “rebellious” Arab city: between the space of killing and the space of reason • A “word” that I excuse and apologize for • Footnotes on the shrines of the Sublime Gate • “Assets” that disrupt life...and captivate minds • Towards an Arab civil front • Flowers to greet Arab squares and streets • Civil rain • Theater •V • He loves the night, so he supports darkness! • Visit • Open-air Shakespearean theatre • From restriction, not from freedom, comes danger • The Arabism of living together: We are with you, but we are not of you • Where is the other wing of the bird of truth? • VI • Is the concept of “the East” dead? • Gazon and Medea, a Greek-Arab myth?., • About Arab political modernity as a system and revolution • Oh tree of meaning, when will the winds of images blow? • For the poet • About the book.
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The dust of cities is the misery of history.

(غبارُ المدن بؤسُ التاريخ)

Author Adonis.

Author Original أدونيس

Publication Date 2020

Publication Place Beirut - Dar Al-Saqi

Subject Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century, Arab countries -- History, Nonfiction, Politics

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 285

Library Wesleyan University Library

Library Asset ID ISBN : 9786140300149, ISBN : 6140300142, ISBN : 614-425-837-X

Record ID alma9932737045003768

Library Location See online access

Date 2020

Notes Title from eBook information screen.., Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.

Sample Text • Intro •I • Introduction • The obsession with dissent and rejection • Introduction • Solo playing on Damascus guitar • II • Bouazizi’s ashes • “Tahrir Square”: ushering in the beginning of the century? • Tahrir Square, also and also • Words that speak within words: Greetings to Cairo and to June 30 • The thrones and coffins of dictatorships • Cairo Moment: June 30, Tahrir Square • Cell No.... • Greetings to Egypt and to the fields of its liberation • Man, his rights and freedoms, or the abyss • An open letter to the opposition about change in Syria, especially changing the constitution: • Beyond the system, and broader than politics • In light of the Syrian moment • The Syrian moment, once again • For a “democratic Syria” • Syria and inventing the future • Ten theses on the current Arab rebellions • III • About the “West” of the Arabs • A fantasy about the Arabized Atlantic alliance • Between the “Freedom Flotilla” and the “Turkish Presence Fleet” • Big country, small politics • Dread, phobia, terror • Wow Obama! Wa Sarkoza! • The little girl, or the corpse - the image • Islamic awakening? • In light of Gaza • Murder scene • Come, you hungry people • Gaza: Fighting in it, or fighting for it? • Gaza: its tunnels and horizons • An explosion in the lung of meaning • IV • Nilofar package for Arab Liberation Squares • Regimes that did not die, revolutions that were not born... • The grip of tyrants • The ankle of a deer called the desert • The darkness of this conflict • Happy new year and the past • Where is the problem then? • Cunning of the feet • The burden of history • No, you will not enter my house • The “rebellious” Arab city: between the space of killing and the space of reason • A “word” that I excuse and apologize for • Footnotes on the shrines of the Sublime Gate • “Assets” that disrupt life...and captivate minds • Towards an Arab civil front • Flowers to greet Arab squares and streets • Civil rain • Theater •V • He loves the night, so he supports darkness! • Visit • Open-air Shakespearean theatre • From restriction, not from freedom, comes danger • The Arabism of living together: We are with you, but we are not of you • Where is the other wing of the bird of truth? • VI • Is the concept of “the East” dead? • Gazon and Medea, a Greek-Arab myth?., • About Arab political modernity as a system and revolution • Oh tree of meaning, when will the winds of images blow? • For the poet • About the book.

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