Barbara Michalak-Pikulska

Multi-author monograph entitled Contemporary Arab World. Literary and Linguistic Issues is a collective work of researchers from the Arabic Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. It is a collection of six papers dealing with selected issues of contemporary Arab world, presenting effects of the work conducted by the Arabic and Islamic Studies research team. Particular papers focus on issues of contemporary Arab world, chosen on account of academi...

The authors of this book present a study of the first Arab novels that dealt with the Arab Spring in the period 2011-2013. They show the rapid reaction of Arab novelists to what happened in their countries at that time. Dozens of narrative works have been published that heralded the advent of change and the victory of popular movements, glorifying the re-bellious uprisings against tyrannical regimes. Few predicted the outbreak of the revolution before the occurrence of these major events. They a...

The volume consists of six parts devoted to literature, languages, history, culture, science, religions and philosophy of the Eastern World. Its aim is to portray the present-day state of oriental studies, which are here understood predominantly as philologies of Asia and Africa, but also as a field of study including other, adjacent disciplines of the humanities, not neglecting the history of oriental research. The book's multidisciplinary content reflects the multi- and often interdisciplinary...

Książka jest pierwszą próbą całościowego opracowania współczesnej poezji Zjednoczonych Emiratów Arabskich. Autorka korzysta z szerokiej bazy źródłowej i popiera swoje wypowiedzi licznymi przekładami omawianych wierszy. Praca, wzbogacona biogramami poetów emirackich, stanowi cenny wkład do arabistycznych studiów literaturoznawczych w Polsce. Prof. Dr hab. Ewa Machut-Mendecka...