Laâyoune, also El Aaiún, is the unofficial capital of Western Sahara, a former Spanish country now mostly controlled and occupied by Morocco. File links The following pages link to this file: Laayoune Categories: Images with unknown source ... File links The following pages link to this file: Laayoune Categories: Images with unknown source ...
The city has a population of around 198,200 and is the largest city in Western Sahara. Laâyoune is located at 27°9'13" North, 13°12'12" West (27.153611, -13.203333). [1] (http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html)
The term "El Aaiún" is the Spanish name for the territory, and one that was used exclusively before the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara. The term "Laâyoune" is a French transliteration used in Moroccan literature. The former is the preferred nomenclature of Saharawis, the traditional inhabitants of the land. Sahrawi and Saharawi are terms most commonly used for the natives of the Morocco-administered Western Sahara. ...
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Entry in Lexicorient (http://lexicorient.com/morocco/laayoune.htm)
In this bold, insightful work Mary Layoun investigates the development of literary practice in the Greek, Arabic, and Japanese cultures, which initially considered the novel a foreign genre, a cultural accoutrement of "Western" influence.
In each of the three cultural traditions, the literary debates surrounding the adoption and adaption of the modern novel focus on problematic formulations of the "modern" versus the "traditional," the "Western" and "foreign" versus the "indigenous," and notions of the modern bourgeois subject versus the precapitalist or precolonial subject.
Layoun textually situates and analyzes these formulations in the early twentieth-century novels of Alexandros Papadiamandis (Greece), Yahya Haqqi (Egypt), and Natsume Soseki (Japan) and in the contemporary novels of Dimitris Hatzis (Greece), Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine), and Oe Kenzaburo (Japan).
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