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GINGKO JULY - DECEMBER 2019 HAUS PUBLISHING AT THE CORNER OF A DREAM A Journey of Resistance & Revolution: The Street Art of Bahia Shehab £25 | VISUAL ART, STREET ART PBK with flaps, 245mm x 243mm September 2019 978-1-909942-39-4 96pp Published with the AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF MUSLIM CIVILISATIONS ‘Shehab uses the past to shed new light on the present and inspires the next generation of academics and graphic designers.’ —Prince Claus Fund (The Netherlands) Bahia Shehab is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and art historian. Her work is concerned with identity and preserving cultural heritage. Through investigating Islamic art history she reinterprets contemporary Arab politics, feminist discourse and social issues. She is Professor of Design and founder of the graphic design programme at The American University in Cairo where she has developed a full design curriculum mainly focused on visual culture of the Arab world. She has taught over fourteen courses on the topic. She frequently lectures internationally on Arab visual culture and design education, peaceful protest, and Islamic cultural heritage. Her artwork has been on display in exhibitions, galleries and streets internationally. The documentaryNefertiti’s Daughters featuring her street artwork during the Egyptian uprising was released in 2015. Her work has received a number of international recognitions and awards some of which include the BBC 100 Women list (2013), TED Senior fellowship (2016), and a Prince Claus Award (2016). Her publications include A Thousand Times NO: The Visual History of Lam-Alif. She is the first Arab woman to receive the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture (2016). ................ NEW Egyptian street artist Bahia Shehab began taking to the streets using lines from Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Since then, she has taken her peaceful resistance to the streets of the world, from New York to Tokyo, Amsterdam to Honolulu. This book documents not only Shehab’s striking artwork itself, but also the stories of the people she meets along the way, and her observations from the streets of each new city she visits. It is her artist manifesto, a cry for freedom and dignity, and a call to never stop dreaming. At the Corner of a Dream hopes to illustrate how an idea that started on the streets of Cairo has travelled to the walls of the world. ‘The world has been led to believe that the Egyptian Revolution has failed. The mainstream media would have us believe that law and order have been reinstated by the military regime. All forms of resistance and opposition have been silenced. This book aims to offer another side to this story; it is an expression of our human right to live in freedom and with dignity. I paint poetry by the Palestinian poet of resistance Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) on the walls of different cities around the world in new and originals forms of the Arabic script. I use lines from his poetry to tell the world that ideas cannot be killed, to show that we are united in our humanity and our struggle against oppression and dictatorship. Darwish is seen by many as a poet on the side of the People, whatever their race and wherever they are. “At the Corner of a Dream” is a line from his poem “It was what it was going to be”. I paint Darwish’s words on the walls of cities around the world in anticipation of a dream that I believe is around the corner for all of us.’ DIVAN EVENTS July - December 2019 A series of inspiring events of poetry and music to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the great German poet Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan and the publication of two remarkable books – a new translation of the West-Eastern Divan and A New Divan – will take place in the UK and Europe throughout the year. The events in this lineup are subject to change. Please check newdivan.org.uk for the latest details and sign up to our newsletter for updates. Edinburgh International Book Festival, 14-15 August with Jan Wagner, Narguess Farzad, Antonella Anedda, Jamie McKendrick, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Gilles Ortlieb and other contributing poets Senate House, University of London, 10-11 October Symposium of the English Goethe Society: Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan and its Uses Poetry International Festival, Southbank Centre, London, 20 October – Letter to Goethe with Adonis and Khaled Mattawa Goethe Haus, Frankfurt, 22 October – Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan with Hendrik Birus in conversation with Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin, 18-20 November with Stefan Weidner, Mohammed Bennis, Gonca Özmen and Fadhil Al-Azzawi and other contributing poets. Lectures by Mathias Énard and Nawal El Saadawi. Exhibition of works by Bahia Shehab. And music by the Barenboim-Said academicians and musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. WEST- EASTERN DIVAN Complete, annotated new translation, including Goethe’s ‘Notes and Essays’ & the unpublished poems Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translated by Eric Ormsby £30 | POETRY HBK, ROYAL, 640pp SEPTEMBER 2019 978-1-909942-24-0 BILINGUAL EDITION Available as an e-book One of the major works of world literature finally available in a new, complete and annotated translation In 1814, Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. The book was a revelation. He called Hafiz his twin and was immediately inspired to create a Divan of his own. At the same time he met Marianne von Willemer, with whom he rapidly fell in love. She became the Suleika to his Hatem and a conversation begun with Hafiz blossomed into a duet for two lovers. In this much awaited new translation, Eric Ormsby’s clear prose is accompanied by explanatory notes of both the verse in German and in English and of Goethe’s own commentary, the ‘Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan’. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist, playwright and natural philosopher, considered one of the greatest figures in Western literature. His most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts. Eric Ormsby is a distinguished scholar in the field of Islamic Studies. He taught at McGill University where he was Professor and Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies. ................ NEW A NEW DIVAN A Lyrical Dialogue between East & West Edited by Barbara Schwepcke & Bill Swainson £20 | POETRY HBK, ROYAL JUNE 2019 978-1-909942-28-8 208pp Available as an e-book ‘The multilingual delights of A New Divan, published 200 years after Goethe’s, are inspired by the inspiration Goethe took from Hafiz, and his passionate vision of common humanity across cultural difference.’ —Ruth Padel, Financial Times A New Divan contains outstanding new poems by twenty-four leading poets, twelve from the East and twelve from the West, and presents a truly international poetic dialogue inspired by the culture of the Other and Goethe’s late, great work. Writing in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Slovenian, each pair of poets has responded to one of the themes of the twelve books of Goethe’s Divan. Working either directly with the original poets or via a bridge translation, the twenty-two English-language poets have created poems that draw on the poetic forms and cultures of the poets taking part. Three pairs of essays enhance and complement the poems, mirroring Goethe’s original ‘Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan’. Bill Swainson is a freelance editor and literary consultant. In 2015 he was awarded an OBE for services to literary translation. Dr Barbara Schwepcke is the founder of Gingko and the chair of its board of trustees. In 2003 she founded Haus Publishing. ................ RECENTLY PUBLISHED OFF LIMITS New Writings on Fear and Sin Nawal El Saadawi Translated by Nariman Youssef £14.99 | ESSAYS, GENDER STUDIES HBK, ROYAL NOVEMBER 2019 978-1909942-43-1 140pp Available as an e-book ‘The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab world.’ —Guardian ‘At a time when nobody else was talking, [El Saadawi] spoke the unspeakable.’ —Margaret Atwood, BBC Magazine ‘El Saadawi writes with directness and passion.’ —New York Times Well beyond the Arab world, from Woman at Point Zero to The Fall of the Imam to her prison memoirs, El Saadawi’s fiction and non-fiction works have earned her a reputation in providing a fresh voice in feminist debates concerning the Middle East. This series of essays form a selection of El Saadawi’s most recent recollections and reflections, considers the role of women in Egyptian and wider Islamic society, the inextricability of imperialism from patriarchy, the meeting point of East and West and many other topics. The essays leave no stone unturned and no view unchallenged, and offer the interested reader new insight into El Saadawi’s thoughts and political beliefs. Nawal El Saadawi was born in 1931. She is an Egyptian feminist author, activist, physician and psychiatrist, whose writings focus on the subject of women in Islam. She is founder and president of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association, and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. ................ NEW THE EARLY OTTOMAN PELOPONNESE A study in the Light of an Annotated editio princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460-1463) Georgios C. Liakopoulos £40 | OTTOMAN STUDIES PBK, 280mm x 300mm (PORTRAIT) SEPTEMBER 2019 978-1909942-32-5 Available in PDF 700pp | 38 colour maps Published in the ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY'S IBRAHIM PASHA OF EGYPT series The only monograph ever written on the subject In this book, Georgios C.

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