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    The document discusses literature from several Middle Eastern countries. It provides background on Israel's literature, noting that Israel is the first Jewish state in two millennia and remains a focus of Jewish immigration. It then profiles famous Israeli author David Grossman, listing some of his notable fiction and non-fiction works. The document also summarizes aspects of Persian/Iranian literature like the Shahnameh epic and poet Saadi Shirazi. It briefly touches on languages spoken in Persia and traditional Persian art forms before outlining major types of Persian poetry. The document concludes with background on Mesopotamian/Iraqi literature, mentioning the earliest known poet Enheduanna from the 23rd century BC.

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    The document discusses literature from several Middle Eastern countries. It provides background on Israel's literature, noting that Israel is the first Jewish state in two millennia and remains a focus of Jewish immigration. It then profiles famous Israeli author David Grossman, listing some of his notable fiction and non-fiction works. The document also summarizes aspects of Persian/Iranian literature like the Shahnameh epic and poet Saadi Shirazi. It briefly touches on languages spoken in Persia and traditional Persian art forms before outlining major types of Persian poetry. The document concludes with background on Mesopotamian/Iraqi literature, mentioning the earliest known poet Enheduanna from the 23rd century BC.

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    21st Century Li-WPS Office

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    21st Century Literature

    By: Juliet M. Balintag


    Israel's
    Literature
    The nation of Israel is the
    world's first Jewish state
    in two millennia. It
    represents for Jews the
    restoration of their
    homeland after the
    centuries long Diaspora
    that followed the demise
    of the Herodian Kingdom
    in the 1st century CE. As
    such, it remains the
    focus of widespread
    jewisg immigration
    Israel stands at the
    crossroads of Europe,
    Asua and Africa.
    Geographically, it belongs
    to the Asia continent and
    is part of the middle East
    region. In the west, Israel
    is bound by the
    Mediterranean Sea.
    Lebanon and Syria border
    it to the north, Jordan to
    the east, Egypt to the
    soutwest and the Red Sea
    to the south
    Why does the hebrew or the Israel's
    literature popular all around the world?
    Famous Author in
    Hebrew/Israel
    Literature
    David Grossman
    Grossman is an outsoke
    left-wing peace activist.
    He has bern desrcived by
    the Economist as
    epitomising Israel's left
    learning cultural elite.
    Initially supportive of
    Israel's action during the
    2006 Lebanon War on thr
    ground of self-defense, on
    August 10, 2006, he and
    fellow authors Amos Oz
    and A. B. bit.
    David Grossman
    His Famous workds are the following;

    Fiction:
    •Duel [Du-krav, 1882].London:Bloomsbury, 1998

    Non-Fiction:
    •The Yellow Wind [Ha-Zeman ha-tsahov, 1987].
    New York:Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988
    Film:
    •The smile of the Lamb, award-winning film written and
    directed by Shimkn Dotan, based on the Grossman
    novel by the same name.
    Persian /Iran
    Literature
    •Iran means
    "The Land of
    Aryans" (‫)ایران‬
    Shahnameh (The book of
    Kings)
    •National epic of Greater
    Iran
    •Shahnameh is one of the
    world's longest epic poem

    Famous Poet in Persia


    Sheik Moslehoddin Sa'di

    •He was born in Iran's


    Famous 'Suraj city
    •He would write stories,
    poems

    •His full name is "Abu


    Muhammad Musharraf
    Uddin Bin Mosleh Uddin
    Abdullah Saadi Siraji"
    Saadi Shirazi Poem

    Chenan be moyeto ashofteham be boye to mast

    Ke nistam khabar az harche dar do aalam ast!

    In English:

    (I am) lost in your hair, drunk in your hair's smell

    That i have forgotten about the world and the


    creatures in it!
    Tehran

    The Largest city of Russia


    The famous indigenous fate of russia

    •Manichaeism

    •Ziroastrianism
    Four Main language of Persia

    1.Kharismian

    2.Mazanderani

    3.Old Azeri

    4.Persian
    Arts:

    •Carpet Weaving

    •Pottery

    •Mosaic

    •Miniature Painting
    Persian
    Literature
    The Famous Type of Persian Poetry

    •GHOST AND FOX SONGS

    •QASIDA

    •DIVAN

    •GHAZAL

    •MASNAVI

    •RUBAIYAT
    IRAQ /MESOPOTAMIA
    LITERATURE
    MESOPOTAMIA

    In Greek, Trasnlate to

    "The Land between


    tow rivers"

    •Tigris

    •Eyphrates
    1.Enheduanna
    (Poet)

    •Born in half of the 23rd


    century BC

    •He born in Mesopotamia

    •Died in 2250 BC

    •She written the First


    Babylonian Empire (6th
    century)

    THE FAMOUS AUTHORS OF IRAQ


    Jordan
    Literature

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