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  2. Season of Migration to the North - Wikipedia

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    Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl is considered to be an important turning point in the development of postcolonial narratives that focus on the encounter between East and West. [1] The novel has been translated into over twenty languages. [2] Salih was fluent in both English and Arabic, but chose to pen this novel in Arabic. [3]

  3. Tayeb Salih - Wikipedia

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    Tayeb Salih (Arabic: الطيب صالح, romanized: aṭ-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ; 12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) [1] was a Sudanese writer, novelist, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO.

  4. Mawsim - Wikipedia

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    Mawsim or moussem (Arabic: موسم), waada, or raqb, is the term used in the Maghreb to designate an annual regional festival in which worshippers usually combine the religious celebration of local Marabouts or Sufi Tariqas, with various festivities and commercial activities. These are very popular events, often attended by people from very ...

  5. Heinemann African Writers Series - Wikipedia

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    Includes "House of flesh" by Yusuf Idris, "Grandad Hasan" by Yahya Taher Abdullah, "Within the walls" by Edward El-Kharrat, "The performer" by Ibrahim Aslan, "The whistle" by Abdul Hakim Kassem, "Suddenly it rained" by Baha Taher, "The man who saw the sole of his left foot in a cracked mirror" by Lutfi Al-Khouli, "A conversation from the third ...

  6. The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist - Wikipedia

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    Despite Saeed's cooperation with Israel, he is sent to prison multiple times, where he is assaulted by the guards. In the end of the novel, the narrator expresses his ambivalence about the reality of Saeed the events that he recounted. He tracks down a resident at a mental institution, called Sa'di, who may be the writer of the letters.

  7. Al Hejr - Wikipedia

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    Al-Ḥijr (Arabic: الحِجْرْ, lit. 'The Stoneland') [1] is the 15th sūrah (chapter of the Quran).It has 99 āyāt (verses).. Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is an earlier Meccan surah, received by Muhammad shortly after chapter 12, Yusuf, during his last year in Mecca.

  8. Virginia teacher who taught anti-Israel hate is daughter of ...

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    She is the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hanooti, who was an imam at Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church between 1995 and 1999, a roughly 40-minute drive from the school where she teaches. The ...

  9. Migration to Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    The migration to Abyssinia (Arabic: الهجرة إلى الحبشة, romanized: al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijra (الهجرة الأولى, al-hijrat al'uwlaa), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the Sahabah, or the companions) migrated from Arabia due to their persecution by ...