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The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earth's elements. Al-Koni, an award-winning and critically acclaimed Arabic writer, reflects on this fragile environment and the increasing threats to its existence in A Sleepless Eye, a collection of the poet's desert wisdom. He highlights the relationships between humans and Libya's natural features, grouping them by theme: nature, desert, water, sea, wind, rock, trees, and fire. Each theme contains a set of aphorisms that deliver thoughtful perspectives on what it means to coexist with an evolving planet. This volume is the result of the author's collaboration with the celebrated French nature photographer, Alain Sebe, and English translator Allen. The product is a body of work that calls upon readers to question their relationship with the earth through meditative ideas and photos, familiarizing English readers with the fundamental philosophies of environmental stewardship that transcend all boundaries.

Aphorisms and apothegms. --- Desert people --- Desert peoples --- Ethnology --- Ana --- Apothegms --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Sayings --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Proverbs --- Quotations --- Sahara --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North

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The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as ""the second face of the Mediterranean."" The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's ""islands"" and

Trade routes --- Africans --- Commercial routes --- Foreign trade routes --- Ocean routes --- Routes of trade --- Sea lines of communication --- Sea routes --- Commerce --- Ethnology --- Migrations. --- Africa, West --- Africa, North --- Sahara --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- Sahara Desert --- Relations --- Ethnic relations. --- Emigration and immigration. --- #SBIB:314H252 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Migrations --- Internationale migratie --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Etnografie: Afrika

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Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema makes him uniquely suited to his role. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, writes about the most unusual as well as the most important film festivals, and the cities in which they occur, with an eye toward the larger picture. His lively narrative emphasizes the cultural, political, and sociological aspects of each event as well as the human stories that influence the various and telling ways the film world and the real world intersect. Of the festivals profiled in detail, Cannes and Sundance are obvious choices as the biggest, brashest, and most influential of the bunch. The others were selected for their ability to open a window onto a wider, more diverse world and cinema's place in it. Sometimes, as with Sarajevo and Havana, film is a vehicle for understanding the international political community's most vexing dilemmas. Sometimes, as with Burkina Faso's FESPACO and Pordenone's Giornate del Cinema Muto, it's a chance to examine the very nature of the cinematic experience. But always the stories in this book show us that film means more and touches deeper chords than anyone might have expected. No other book explores so many different festivals in such detail or provides a context beyond the merely cinematic.

Film festivals. --- Performing arts festivals. --- Performing arts --- Art festivals --- Film and video festivals --- Motion picture festivals --- Moving-picture festivals --- Video and film festivals --- Performing arts festivals --- Festivals --- academic. --- actors. --- award winning films. --- cannes. --- cinema studies. --- cinematic. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- directors. --- film critic. --- film criticism. --- film festival. --- film history. --- film studies. --- history of film. --- influential. --- international. --- land of the midnight sun. --- political. --- sahara desert. --- sarajevo. --- scholarly. --- social studies. --- sociology. --- sub saharan africa. --- sundance.

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"Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds"--

Sufism. --- Islamic magic. --- Sufism --- Islamic magic --- Magic, Islamic --- Muslim magic --- Magic --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- History. --- Islam --- Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, --- Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, --- Sahara. --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North --- El Kounti, Mohamed, --- Kounti, Mohamed, --- Kuntī, Muḥammad, --- Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī, --- Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār bin Aḥmad bin Abī Bakr al-Kuntī al-Wāfī, --- كنتي، محمد بن المختار --- كنتي، محمد بن المختار، --- Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad al-Kuntī, --- Shinqīṭī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, --- الشنقيطي، المختار أحمد محمود --- كونتي، المختار بن احمد --- كنتي، المختار بن أحمد --- كنتي، المختار بن احمد،

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As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and how did they acquire scholarly works and the writing paper necessary to contribute to knowledge? By exploring the history of the trans-Saharan book and paper trades, the scholarly production and teaching curricula of African Muslims and the formation, preservation and codicology of library collections, the authors of this original volume provide a variety of answers. The select number of invited contributions represents current research in the material, technological, economic, and cultural dimensions of manuscript production, circulation, and preservation, and the development of specific scholarly and intellectual traditions in Saharan and Sudanic Africa.

091 <6> --- 091 =927 --- 091 =927 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- 091 <6> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Afrika --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Afrika --- Arabic literature --- Northern Africa --- West Africa --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Manuscrits arabes --- Codicologie --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Sahara --- Book industries and trade -- Africa, Northwest -- History. --- Codicology -- Africa, Northwest. --- Islamic learning and scholarship -- Africa, Northwest -- History. --- Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Africa, Northwest. --- Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa, Northwest. --- Sahara -- Commerce -- History. --- Reference & resource series. --- REFERENCE. --- Handschriften. --- Moslims. --- Noordwest-Afrika. --- North Africa --- Book industries and trade --- Codicology --- Manuscripts --- Boekhandel. --- Commerce --- History. --- Collectors and collecting --- Learning and scholarship --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Manuscriptology --- Bibliography --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Codices --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Arabic manuscripts --- History --- Commerce&delete& --- Intellectual life --- Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Manuscrits --- Livres --- Musulmans --- Industrie --- Savoir et érudition --- Histoire --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North