The Secret Life Of Saeed The Pessoptimist

Author : Émile Habibi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906697266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist written by Émile Habibi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero. He has all the qualities that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. He is a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness.

Author : Emile Habiby
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781623717025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Saeed written by Emile Habiby and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. An informer for the Zionist state, his stupidity, candor, and cowardice make him more of a victim than a villain; but in a series of tragicomic episodes, he is gradually transformed from a disaster-haunted, gullible collaborator into a Palestinian—no hero still, but a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness. The author’s own anger and sorrow at Palestine’s tragedy and his acquaintance with the absurdities of Israeli politics (he was once a member of Israel’s parliament himself) are here transmuted into satire both biting and funny. Translated by Anton Shammas into Hebrew, The Secret Life of Saeed won Israel’s foremost Prize for Literature; a stage version played to great acclaim for a decade.

Author : Emile Habiby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780533047673
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life Or Saeed, the Ill-fated Pessoptimist written by Emile Habiby and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Imīl Ḥabībī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-fated Pessoptimist written by Imīl Ḥabībī and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book is CURRENTLY MISSING 2/92/RV.

Author : Stefan G. Meyer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447338
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experimental Arabic Novel written by Stefan G. Meyer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.

Author : Jeffrey Sacks
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823264963
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iterations of Loss written by Jeffrey Sacks and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Shimon Ballas, and Taha Husayn, Sacks demonstrates the reiterated incursion of loss into the time of life—losses that language declines to mourn. Language occurs as the iteration of loss, confounding its domestication in the form of the monolingual state in the Arabic nineteenth century’s fallout. Reading the late lyric poetry of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in relation to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, Sacks reconsiders the nineteenth century Arabic nahda and its relation to colonialism, philology, and the European Enlightenment. He argues that this event is one of catastrophic loss, wherein the past suddenly appears as if it belonged to another time. Reading al-Shidyaq’s al-Saq ‘ala al-saq (1855) and the legacies to which it points in post-1948 writing in Arabic, Hebrew, and French, Sacks underlines a displacement and relocation of the Arabic word adab and its practice, offering a novel contribution to Arabic and Middle East Studies, critical theory, poetics, aesthetics, and comparative literature. Drawing on writings of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Avital Ronell, Judith Butler, Theodor Adorno, and Edward W. Said, Iterations of Loss shows that language interrupts its pacification as an event of aesthetic coherency, to suggest that literary comparison does not privilege a renewed giving of sense but gives place to a new sense of relation.

Author : Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299189635
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inextricably Bonded written by Rachel Feldhay Brenner and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the tragic reality of the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict and deep-rooted beliefs that the chasm between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs is unbridgeable, this book affirms the bonds between the two communities. Rachel Feldhay Brenner demonstrates that the literatures of both ethnic groups defy the ideologies that have obstructed dialogue between the two peoples. Brenner argues that literary critics have ignored the variety and the dissent in the novels of both Arab and Jewish writers in Israel, giving them interpretations that embrace the politics of exclusion and conform with Zionist ideology. Brenner offers insightful new readings that compare fiction by Jewish writers Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, and others with fiction written in Hebrew by such Arab-Israeli writers as Atallah Mansour, Emile Habiby, and Anton Shammas. This parallel analysis highlights the moral and psychological dilemmas faced by both the Jewish victors and the Arab vanquished, and Brenner suggests that the hope for release from the historical trauma lies—on both sides—in reaching an understanding with and of the adversary. Drawing upon the theories of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Emanuel Levinas, and others, Inextricably Bonded is an innovative and illuminating examination of literary dissent from dominant ideology.

Author : Dina Matar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733753
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrating Conflict in the Middle East written by Dina Matar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'conflict' has often been used broadly and uncritically to talk about diverse situations ranging from street protests to war, though the many factors that give rise to any conflict and its continuation over a period of time vary greatly. The starting point of this innovative book is that to consider conflict within a singular concept disables a coherent analysis of the constituent factors behind any particular conflict. At the same time, to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique undermines an attempt to examine common factors in all conflicts. The contributors set out to explore alternative ways in which the long-term conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon have been and are narrated, imagined and remembered in diverse spaces, including that of the media. They examine discourses and representations of the conflicts as well as practices of memory and performance in narratives of suffering and conflict, all of which suggest an embodied investment in narrating or communicating conflict. In so doing, they engage with local, global and regional realities in Lebanon and Palestine and they respond dynamically to these realities.

Author : Frances S. Hasso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316513548
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buried in the Red Dirt written by Frances S. Hasso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of Palestinian life, death, and reproduction during and since the British colonial period in Palestine.

Author : Alan George
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842772133
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syria written by Alan George and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the testimony of key players, "Syria: Neither Bread nor Freedom" recounts the drama of the "Damascus Spring" and its repression, and reveals what happens in a state like Syria to the institutions that occupy the political space between government and governed. From political parties to parliament; from the media to the judicial system and universities, the official veil of rhetoric and propaganda is lifted to reveal a system so demoralized and corrupted that power is wielded for no purpose but power itself; a system which, as Bashar al-Assad himself is discovering, is virtually incapable of reform.