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“The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad,” by Tamir Sorek, Stanford University Press, 2020; 264 pps., $26
Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-1994) was a leader, a prominent Palestinian national poet, a communist, a native son and mayor of Nazareth and a member of Knesset for almost 20 years. The first-ever biography of Zayyad, by Tamir Sorek – an Israeli sociologist who teaches in the history department of Penn State University in the United States – tells a fascinating life story, from the series of arrests and detentions of Zayyad as a youth, through his long term as mayor and as a member of Israel’s Parliament who led the Arab public in Israel to engage in political partnership with the Zionist left.
Ye Discusses the Future of China’s BRI
Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article in the January 2021 issue of
Asia Policy – a publication of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) – on the effect of COVID-19 on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
In the article, titled “Atrophying or Adapting: China’s Belt and Road after the Covid-19 Pandemic,” Ye explores China’s policy discourse and activities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s prioritization of BRI, as well as its globalization strategy for the future. Ye outlines the policy implications of China’s continued commitment to BRI, which she argues will expand at home and abroad as the country continues to recover from the pandemic.
Abstract
This essay looks at the history of the novel, starting from the influential postwar critical insistence on the importance of the novel as a nineteenth-century genre. It notes that this tradition singularly fails to take account of the history of the novel in antiquity–for clear ideological reasons. It then explores the degree to which the texts known as the novel from antiquity, such as Longus’s
Daphnis and Chloe, Petronius’s
Satyricon, or Heliodorus’s
Aethiopica, constitute a genre. Although there is a great deal of porousness between different forms of prose in antiquity, the essay concludes by exploring why the ancient novel, ignored by critics for so long, has now become such a hot topic. It argues that much as the postwar critics could not fit the ancient novel into their histories, now the ancient novel’s interests in sophisticated erotics, narrative flair, and cultural hybridity seem all too timely.
The political and security dimensions of the humanitarian health response to violent conflict thelancet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thelancet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.