Al-Ahram Weekly | Books Supplement (February 2002)

February 2002

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Pierre Bourdieu Committed scholar
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
By Edward Said

France mourns Pierre Bourdieu
By David Tresilian

Sociologist of Algeria

An Istanbul anatomy
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
London: Faber and Faber, 2001.

The new Orientalism
- Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities, Barbara Fuchs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. pp211;
- Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England, Daniel J Vitkus, ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. pp376

Going west post-11 September
Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems, Fatema Mernissi,
New York: Washington Square Press, 2001. pp228

Translating the untranslatable?
-Towards Understanding the Ever-glorious Qur'an, Dr Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali, Cairo: Publishing House for Universities, 2001;
-An interpretation of the Qur'an: English Translation of the Meanings, Majid Fakhri, London: Garnet Publishing, 2001;
-The Noble Qur'an: A New Rendering of its Meaning in English, Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley, Norwich, England: Bookwork, 2001

The world in prose
Zahr Al-Rumman (Pomegranate Flowers), Mourid Al-Barghouthi,
Beirut: Dar Al-Adaab, 2002. pp116

Assyria and Indiana Jones
La Conquete de l'Assyrie 1840 -- 1860 (The Conquest of Assyria), Mogens Trolle Larsen,
Paris: Hachette, 2001. pp452

Stories from the Iraqi marshes
Zakirat Al-Ahwar wa Qisas Ukhra (Memories of the Marshes and Other Stories)
Cairo: Ishtar Publishing, 2002. pp150

Song of the stone
Egyptian Diaries: How One Man Solved the Mysteries of the Nile, Jean-François Champollion,
London: Gibson Square Books, 2001. pp284

Sharing the spoils
Howard Carter, The Path to Tutankhamun, FGH James,
Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001. pp513

At a glance
A shorthand guide to the month compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani

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