Anglo-American Studies

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12/12/2015

This video is for my M1 AAS students
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12/12/2014

M1 students (AAS) are informed that saturday's sessions are postponed to be the coming thursday inchallah. Golo lba3dakom

15/02/2014

Algeria is Africa’s second largest country and most of it falls within the Sahara Desert. It also hosts the richest rock art concentrations of any other African country and some of the richest on earth. Most of these are found in the south east of the country near its borders with Libya and Niger bu...

12/02/2014

Like if you know someone who reads in such a way

12/02/2014

“Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.”
― Jonathan Raban

12/02/2014

“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative places it had never been before.

12/02/2014

Gertrude Stein was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania on this day in 1874.

“You are all a lost generation.”
-- Gertrude Stein

12/02/2014

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

12/02/2014

“Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times