| The Other Middle East: An Anthology of Modern Levantine Literature Contributor(s): Salameh, Franck (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300204442 ISBN-13: 9780300204445 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
| Dewey: 808.899 |
| LCCN: 2017942329 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.50 lbs) 408 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This unique literary collection offers a window on the contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in Arabic, French, Aramaic, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Hebrew, and reflecting an extraordinary diversity of cultures, faiths, traditions, and languages, the selections in this book also convey a wide range of ideas and perspectives, to offer readers a nuanced understanding of the mosaic that is the contemporary Middle East. Franck Salameh, who compiled this anthology over the course of more than two decades, introduces and annotates each selection for the benefit of the uninitiated reader, offering background on the various peoples and politics of the Levant. In these pages, we discover a Middle East in which, as one writer puts it, "an Armenian and a Turk can still hold hands in the midst of massacres." |