The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for over two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell’s City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition.Ĭollaborating with authors, instructors, booksellers, librarians, and the media is at the heart of what we do as a scholarly publisher. Today we publish over 30 titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. MIT Press began publishing journals in 1970 with the first volumes of Linguistic Inquiry and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. International Affairs, History, & Political Science.Part incantation, part polemic, and part love letter, this extraordinary novel creates a new world where the self is effaced by desire and love, and writing is always an act of discovery.MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. The book spans twenty years, moving from Salé, to Paris, to Cairo. Irresistibly charming, angry, and wry, this autobiographical novel traces the emergence of Abdellah Taïa's identity as an openly gay Arab man living between cultures. Running is the only way he can stand up to the violence that is his Morocco. He's running after the Egyptian movie star, Souad Hosni, who's out there somewhere, miles away from this neighborhood-which is a place the teenager both loves and hates, the home at which he is not at home, an environment that will only allow him his identity through the cultural lens of shame and silence. He's running after his dream, his dream to become a movie director. A lower-class teenager is running until he's out of breath. I suddenly saw things with merciless lucidity. I had no more leniency when it came to the Arab world. And there I was, right in the heart of the Arab world, a world that never tired of making the same mistakes over and over. An autobiographical portrait of a gay Arab man, living between cultures, seeking an identity through love and writing.
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