Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23699 No other country is influenced in its political, social and cultural structures by both western and eastern mentality such as Lebanon, and hardly any other country has such a pivotal function. In this mediator function it can be compared with a literary work, that merits its role in world literature as hardly any other piece of literature in regard to the co-operation of Orient and Occident. I am thinking of the collection of "A Thousand and One Nights", or with its original title "Alf Laila wa-Laila". Julia Genz lecture http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23699 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100