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The Dream Palace of the Arabs

by Ajami, Fouad

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  • Bookseller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books US (US)
  • Seller Inventory #: 007575
  • Illustrator: Endpaper Map
  • Edition: 2nd Printing
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0375401504
  • ISBN 13: 9780375401503
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • Place: New York
  • Date published: 1998
  • Pages: 344
  • Size: 6.5 x 9.75 x 1.25 inches
  • Weight: 1.45 pounds

Description

New York: Pantheon, 1998. A beautiful, as new copy. Ajami weaves a chronicle of intellectual ferment in Beirut and Cairo since WW Two. It's another look at the problem of modernism in the Middle East. pages 344 with index. Dustjacket is also fine, NOT price clipped. . 2nd Printing. Illus. by Endpaper Map. 8 Vo.




Book summary

An examination of the politics, history, and culture of the Arab world over the past 25 years, written by a MacArthur Award-winning professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Ajami relates the details both of his own experience growing up in Lebanon and the changes that have been wrought in the Arab world in the years following the establishment of a Jewish state in their midst. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.


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