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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]
Tayeb Salih – Season of Migration to the North (موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال, Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl) Giorgio Scerbanenco. A Private Venus; Traitors to All; Leonardo Sciascia – A ciascuno il suo; Paul Scott – The Jewel in the Crown; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Cancer Ward; Adela Rogers St. Johns – Tell No Man
In 1966, Salih published his novel Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shimâl (Season of Migration to the North), for which he is best known. It was first published in the Beirut journal Hiwâr . The main concern of the novel is with the impact of British colonialism and European modernity on rural African societies in general, and on Sudanese culture ...
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 ...
Two Centuries of African English: a survey and anthology of non-fictional English prose by African writers since 1769. 133: Mukasa, Ham: 1975 Nonfiction: Sir Apolo Kagwa Discovers Britain. Edited by Taban lo Liyong. (First published in 1904 as Uganda's Katikiro in England.) 134: Henderson, Gwyneth, ed. 1973 Plays
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 ...
The Muhajirun (Arabic: المهاجرون, romanized: al-muhājirūn, singular مهاجر, muhājir) were the converts to Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad's advisors and relatives, who emigrated from Mecca to Medina; the event is known in Islam as the Hijra.
The most significant merit of Nozhat al-Majales, as regards to the history of Persian literature, is that it embraces the works of some 115 poets from the northwestern Iran and Eastern Transcaucasia (Arran, Sharvan, Azerbaijan; including 24 poets from Ganja alone), [1] where, due to the change of language, the heritage of Persian literature in that region has almost entirely vanished. [1]