„Barbara Michalak-Pikulska” – książki

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 also presen-ted a comprehensive picture of what was going on in Arab societies during that difficult period. The revolutions left many victims, and for this reason pessimism and despair permeate some texts, but others paint a bright picture of the future of the Arab Spring, which may lead to the realization of the dream of freedom and democracy.

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 academic interests of the authors, as well as with an aim of enriching the didactic content of their classes.From the review by Prof. Adnan Abbas

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 nature of oriental studies today.