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Dream Palace of the Arabs
A Generation's Odyssey
by Fouad Ajami
ISBN: 0375401504
ISBN-13: 9780375401503
Format: Hardcover
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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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"For those seeking a better understanding of the whys and wherefores of modern Arab life, this book is a beautifully written, insightful overview."
-- Kirkus
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.45 pounds
Pages: 344
Publisher's Notes
Fouad Ajami is a spellbinding chronicler, a teller of haunting tales that open up complex worlds and concepts. Here it is the tale of an "edifice of yearnings" created in the writings of a group of Arab men and women in the wake of World War I. They lived in proximity to the stirring philosophical and political movements of the West and longed for their own world to embrace modernity. Their dreams were bequeathed to later generations of intellectuals, only to come under siege in a battle over modernity that is still contested in the Arab world. The Dream Palace of the Arabs, moving back and forth in time, tells the story of the Arabs through their own fiction, prose, and poetry. It vividly renders the distinct textures of Cairo and Beirut, the leading centers of contemporary Arab culture, and depicts through memorable lives the phenomenon of exile and flight that has come to Arab life in our time.
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Fouad Ajami
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Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey
Ajami, Fouad
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books. 1998. F First Edition (First Printing). H Hard Cover. F. Hardcover with dust jacket, map endpapers. A clean copy with no owner markings in interior. DJ has light overall surface wear (no tears), now in clear mylar protective covering. Overall Fine/Very Good condition. ( more information)
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Dream Palace of the Arabs, The by Ajami, Fouad
Fouad Ajami
Pantheon, 1998-02-10. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex library copy in great condition. Appears unread. No marks/underlines/highlights. Pages are clean and tight. Satisfaction guaranteed! Shipping within 24 hours! ( more information)
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