![]() ![]() This volume collects twelve new essays on different aspects of the text by scholars from a variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Reiss’s discovery has spurred new interest in the novel, as has the fact that the book prefigures today’s perceived conflicts between East and West or Islam and Christianity, but also suggests a more peaceful model of intercultural living in multiethnic Baku’s melting pot of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Recent research by the journalist Tom Reiss has revealed the identity of the author as Lev/Leo Nussimbaum (1905–1942), a Jewish man born in Baku who converted to Islam, worked as a journalist in Berlin, and died forgotten in exile. It was a major success, translated into several other languages, but was forgotten by the end of World War II. "Ali and Nino" is a novel published in German in 1937 under the alias “Kurban Said,” a love story between a Muslim man and a Christian woman set in Baku, Azerbaijan, during World War I and the country’s brief independence. 3,886 likes, 33 comments - art magazine (artemagazine) on Instagram on May 8, 2023: 'The statue of Ali and Nino - a moving sculptural composition in Batumi Boulevard, is one of th.' art magazine on Instagram: 'The statue of Ali and Nino - a moving sculptural composition in Batumi Boulevard, is one of the attractions of Georgias Black Sea resort. ![]() Introduction to "Approaches to Kurban Said’s Ali and Nino: Love, Identity, and Intercultural Conflict", Camden House, June 2017. ![]()
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