Howling in Mesopotamia
Howling in Mesopotamia

Author: Haider Ala Hamoudi

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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ON JULY 14, 2003, I left Kuwait on a C-130 transport plane bound for Baghdad, the city of my ancestors and a place I had not been for thirteen years. Two nations could legitimately claim me as their native son. The first was the United States, where I was born and raised. The second was Iraq.So begins this groundbreaking memoir of hope and hardship. Hamoudi spent two years living in Iraq outside the relative safety of the Green Zone working to help rebuild a country he loves.The intimate stories he shares-from the momentous day Saddam Hussein's sons were killed, to the tragic killing of hundreds of civilians on one of Shi'a Islam's most holy days, and even the joyous occasion of Hamoudi's own wedding- invite the reader to experience a new side of the country that has featured so prominently in our nightly news. Hamoudi draws on his unique perspective as the American-born son of two Iraqis to bring new insight to the question: What went wrong in Iraq?

The Storm-god in the Ancient Near East
The Storm-god in the Ancient Near East

Author: Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1575060698

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Green traces these motifs through the Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Syrian, and Levantine regions; he argues that, in the end, Yahweh of the Bible can be identified as a storm-god, though certain unique characteristics came to be associated with him: he was the creator of all that is created and the self-existing god who needs no other."--BOOK JACKET.

(Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim
(Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim

Author: Silke Schmidt

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-10-31

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 3839429153

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Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywood movies and TV news have the power to frame public discourse? This interdisciplinary study transfers media framing theory to literary studies to show how life writing (re-)frames Orientalist stereotypes. The innovative analysis of the post-9/11 autobiographies »West of Kabul, East of New York«, »Letters from Cairo«, and »Howling in Mesopotamia« makes a powerful claim to approach literature based on a theory of production and reception, thus enhancing the multi-disciplinary potential of framing theory.

Mesopotamian Magic
Mesopotamian Magic

Author: I. Tzvi Abusch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9789056930332

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This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.

How To Do Things With Tears
How To Do Things With Tears

Author: Paul Delnero

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 793

ISBN-13: 1501512943

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In contrast to other traditions, cultic laments in Mesopotamia were not performed in response to a tragic event, such as a death or a disaster, but instead as a preemptive ritual to avert possible catastrophes. Mesopotamian laments provide a unique insight into the relationship between humankind and the gods, and their study sheds light on the nature of collective rituals within a crosscultural context. Cultic laments were performed in Mesopotamia for nearly 3000 years. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this important ritual practice in the early 2nd millennium BCE, the period during which Sumerian laments were first put in writing. It also includes a new translation and critical edition of Uruamairabi (‘That city, which has been plundered’), one of the most widely performed compositions of its genre.

The Struggle for Iraq
The Struggle for Iraq

Author: Thomas M. Renahan

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 1612348823

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A political scientist's firsthand report on Iraq and his work with his Iraqi staff to promote democracy and fight corruption, from the days of the Coalition Provisional Authority to the present, and his recommendations for American policy-makers based on the lessons learned.

The Mythology of Ancient Mesopotamia
The Mythology of Ancient Mesopotamia

Author: Donald A. Mackenzie

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13:

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The Mythology of Ancient Mesopotamia is a comprehensive study on the mythology and history of the ancient Mesopotamia. The book starts with a historical summary of the rise and decline of Babylon and Assyria, before it moves to scholar analyses of myths and legends of Babylon and Assyria, with comparisons and parallels drawn to Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Indian, and other mythologies as well as Egyptian and Hebrew history.

The Sumerians: A History from Beginning to End
The Sumerians: A History from Beginning to End

Author: Hourly History

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781720228035

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The Sumerians The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around five thousand years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed