Rana Kabbani

Biographic Data

ID1431989
NAMERana Kabbani
GIVEN NAMESRana
FAMILY NAMEKabbani
SIGNATUREKABBANI R
AFFILIATIONSTransnational Press London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
H-INDEX2

  • Behind him lay the great city of Cordoba

    Rana KabbaniARTICLEThird Text1992

  • Winning Freedoms

    Hannana Siddiqui, Rana KabbaniARTICLEFeminist Review1991

  • Literary reviews

    David Treece, Farida Abu‐Haider et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly1990

    Sinister populism An Invincible Memory João Ubaldo Ribeiro Translated from the Portuguese by the author London/Boston: Faber & Faber. 1989. 504pp. £12.99hb Mellowing protest Le Sommeil d'Ève Mohammed Dib Paris: Sindbad. 1989. 222pp. 100 F L'Honneur de la tribu Rachid Mimouni Paris: Robert Laffont. 1989. 216pp. 89 F Fragments from a bittersweet mosaic Fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade Assia Djebar Translated from the French by Dorothy S Blair London…

  • Representing Middle Eastern Women: Feminism and Colonial Discourse

    Irvin Cemil Schick, Sarah Graham-Brown et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies1990Cited by: 8

  • Literary Reviews

    Gerald Martin, Susan Bassnett et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly1988

    Classic realism. The Time of the Hero. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp. London: Picador. 1986. 409pp. £4.50pb The Green House. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. London: Picador. 1986. 405pp. £3.95pb Colluding with darkness. Of Love and Shadows. Isabel Allende. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Cape. 1987. 274pp. £10.95hb The Lizard's Tail. Luisa Valenzu…

  • Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting

    Frederick N Bohrer, Lynne Thornton et al.ARTICLEArt Journal1988Cited by: 3

  • Doughty Travellers

    Rana KabbaniCHAPTEREurope's Myths of Orient1986

    In his biography of Richard Burton, Byron Farwell begins by stating that 'the explorer is always a civilized man; exploration is an advanced intellectual concept'.1 Therefore, he argues, it is a concept unknown to primitive peoples, and one that remains incomprehensible to women. This observation points to qualities that are intrinsic to exploration — especially the kind of exploration that concerns us here, that which produces travel narrative; …

  • Europe’s Myths of Orient

    Open AccessRana KabbaniBOOKEurope's Myths of Orient1986

  • Europe's Myths of Orient: Devise and Rule

    Rana KabbaniBOOKEurope's Myths of Orient1986

  • The Salon’s Seraglio

    Rana KabbaniCHAPTEREurope's Myths of Orient1986

    In 1829, in the preface to his poem 'Les Orientales', Victor Hugo mentioned the East's modish attractiveness, saying: On s'occupe aujourd'hui beaucoup plus de l'Orient qu'on ne l'a jamais fait. Les études orientales n'ont jamais été poussées si avant. Au siècle de Louis XIV on était Helleniste, maintenant on est Orientaliste.1 Europe was charmed by an Orient that shimmered with possibilities, that promised a sexual space, a voyage away from the s…