The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned, the book's author, an unemployed Egyptian ......
This issue of the Appalachian Heritage features writing from Amy Wright, Marianne Worthington, Kathryn Milam, Melissa Ballard, Davis Enloe, a conversation with Charles Dodd White, a craft essay from Jennifer McGaha, and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
This issue of the Appalachian Heritage features a special section devoted to Appalachian naturalist poets, including Marilou Awiakta, doris davenport, Marc Harshman, Maurice Manning, Irene McKinney, Ron Rash, Albert Stewart, James Still, Crystal Wilkinson writing from Crystal Wilkinson, Marianne Worthington, Monic Ductan, Marc Harshman, Ron ......
Abu Tammam (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria of Greek Christian background, he soon made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad. Abu Tammam vigorously promoted a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin ......
Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells ......
Praised by Voltaire and admired by Pushkin, Evariste Parny (1753-1814) was born on the island of Reunion, which is east of Madagascar, and educated in France. His life as a soldier and government administrator allowed him to travel to Brazil, Africa, and India. Though from the periphery of France's colonial empire, he ultimately became a member of ......
In the Nahda, or Arab Renaissance, from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century, Arab culture and politics for the first time responded to European modernity and face the challenges to Arab power, tradition, and identity posed by the industrial, colonial nations of the West. In the process, Arab society both imitated and innovated, ......
This issue of the Appalachian Heritage features writing from Hal Crowther, Chris Holbrook, Savannah Sipple, Jeff Hardin, Susan O'Dell Underwood a conversation with bell hooks and Fenton Johnson a craft essay from Rebecca Elswick and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2016 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, an event hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. First place winner: Terrence McCoy, "It Was an Accident, Baby" (The Washington Post), ......
