I’jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody
I’jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, the debut novel by
Iraqi-born poet, filmmaker, and Gallatin School of Individualized Study
professor Sinan Antoon, was published in English in 2007 after appearing first
in Arabic in 2004.
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Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream
When high school basketball player LeBron
James was selected as the top pick in the NBA draft of 2003, the hopes of a
half-million high school basketball players soared. But the reality is that their chances of
playing basketball at the professional or even at the college level are
infinitesimal.
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On Eloquence
Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue,
University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters
at NYU, argues in this new book that eloquence is not merely a means to a
rhetorical end, but rather has as its main attribute its “gratuitousness.”
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Swimming Upstream: A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution
In Swimming Upstream, Badal, a teacher in the
Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in the Tisch School
of the Arts and the short film programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival, has
written the ultimate guide for anyone who has made a short film and wonders
what to do next.
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