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Princesses' Street: Baghdad Memories
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
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Description for Princesses' Street: Baghdad Memories
Hardcover. Translator(s): Boulatta, Issa J. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; BM; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. .
This book continues the personal story of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994) that began with The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood. Jabra was one of the Middle East's leading novelists, poets, critics, painters, and translators (he was the first to translate The Sound and the Fury into Arabic), and is the writer who is given credit for modernizing the Arabic novel. This book not only helps us understand Jabra as a writer and human being but also his times in post–World War II Baghdad when Iraq was enjoying an unprecedented period of creativity in literature and the arts.
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This book continues the personal story of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994) that began with The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood. Jabra was one of the Middle East's leading novelists, poets, critics, painters, and translators (he was the first to translate The Sound and the Fury into Arabic), and is the writer who is given credit for modernizing the Arabic novel. This book not only helps us understand Jabra as a writer and human being but also his times in post–World War II Baghdad when Iraq was enjoying an unprecedented period of creativity in literature and the arts.
As a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288011
SKU
V9781557288011
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Reviews for Princesses' Street: Baghdad Memories
The sheer variety of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's interests and talents means that this memoir provides a wealth of information and insight on the confrontation and blending of political, social, and cultural principles and ideals that were so much a part of the inter- and post-war period that are the primary focus of this work. There is much to enjoy and ... Read more