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Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria, May 23, 2009 | © Courtesy of Arian Zwegers/Flickr.

New Article: “Qabbani versus Qur’an”: Arabism and the Umma in Robin Yassin-Kassab’s The Road from Damascus

Tasnim Qutait Published Online: 2018-05-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0008. Abstract In The Road from Damascus (2008), Syrian-British writer Robin Yassin-Kassab’s debut novel, the protagonist describes “the opposing camps of [his] childhood,” as narratives of “Qabbani...

Postsecular Instruments of Acculturation. Czesław Miłosz’s Works from the Second American Stay

Karina Jarzyńska Published Online: 2017-09-20 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0013 Abstract The article raises the question about the ways in which religious tradition can become an ally in the process of acculturation while serving the modern subject both as...