The Literature Of Modern Arabia: An Anthology

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Literature Of Modern Arabia

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra

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Routledge

Saeed, a buffoon, sitting in outer space, reflects on the life of Arabs in Israel, in lengthy letters sent to a friend

The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist: A Palestinian Who Became a Citizen of Israel

Literature & Fiction

Emile Habiby

Le Gassick, Trevor

History & Criticism

Vantage Press, Inc.

<p>Saeed, a buffoon, sitting in outer space, reflects on the life of Arabs in Israel, in lengthy letters sent to a friend</p>

The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist

Habiby, Emile

Gassick, Trevor Le

Readers International

<p>Here is a passionate and eclectic collection of essays, poems, and scholarship that brings to life Jerusalem, that most enigmatic and compelling of cities, in its embattled, contemporary guise as well as in its ancient history. The book begins in the immediacy of today's Jerusalem--with its dispossessions and laws, its bloody conflicts and massive skyscrapers--and moves backward in time to Classical Jerusalem, working to disentangle the knots of the three great monotheistic religions, and finally comes to rest in a section that is a testament to the physical facts of Jerusalem: its monuments and alleys, its smells, its music, its people. Throughout it all, the Jerusalem that emerges is, as Mureed Barghouthy puts it, "the Jerusalem of the people," for it is the people who live or have lived there, who know the "Jerusalem of houses and cobbled streets and spice markets...of our neighbor the nun and her neighbor the "muezzin, who was always in a hurry." Tellingly, the anthology begins and ends with the words of poets: "I'm not interested in/Who suffered the most," writes Naomi Shihab Nye in the introductory poem. "I'm interested in/People getting over it" This book is about a beloved Jerusalem whose intricacies and human inventions are ultimately larger than the current conflict.</p>

My Jerusalem: Essays, Reminiscences, and Poems

Biographies & Memoirs

Ansari, Zafar Ishaq

Historical

Olive Branch Press

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