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Primate sexuality : comparative studies of the prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans
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ISBN: 9780199544646 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,


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Medieval maps of the Holy Land
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ISBN: 9780712358248 Year: 2012 Publisher: London The British Library


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The Crescent on the Temple
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ISBN: 9789004230347 9004230343 9789004203006 9004203001 1280772778 9786613683540 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden BRILL

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'The Crescent on the Temple' by Pamela Berger elucidates an obscured tradition—how the Dome of the Rock came to stand for the Temple of Solomon in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish art. The crusaders called the Dome of the Rock the “Temple of the Lord,” while Muslim imagery depicted Solomon enthroned within the domed structure. Jews knew that the ancient Temple had been destroyed. Nevertheless, in their imagery, they commonly labeled the Muslim shrine “The Temple.” That domed “Temple” was often represented with a crescent on top. This iconography, long hidden in plain sight, reflects one aspect of an historical affinity between Jews and Muslims.


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Post-war anglophone Lebanese fiction : home matters in the diaspora
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ISBN: 9780748643431 0748643435 1283871238 9781283871235 9780748669172 0748669175 9780748669165 0748669167 9780748643424 0748643427 0748676562 9780748676569 Year: 2012 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. The texts chosen for study have been produced in, and are substantially about, life in exile. They therefore deal not only with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) but with one of its crucial and long-standing by-products: expatriation. Syrine Hout shows how these texts characterise a distinctly new literary and cultural trend and have founded an Anglophone Lebanese diasporic literature. The authors discussed in the book are Rabih Alameddine, Tony Hanania, Rawi Hage, Nada Awar Jarrar, Patricia Sarrafian Ward and Nathalie Abi-Ezzi. In her exploration of their writings Hout teases out the different meanings and reformulations of home, be it Lebanon as a nation, a house, a host country, an irretrievable pre-war childhood, a state of in-between dwelling, a portable state of mind, and/or a utopian ideal.

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