Princesses' Street: Baghdad Memories Paperback - 2005
by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra; Issa J. Boulatta (Translator)
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This book continues the personal story of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920a 1994) that began with The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood. Jabra was one of the Middle Easta 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 posta World War II Baghdad when Iraq was enjoying an unprecedented period of creativity in literature and the arts. As a bright and inquisitive young man he became friends with the archeologist Max Mallowan and his wife, who, he later learned, was Agatha Christie (she wrote The Mousetrap during this period, in a little mud brick room). Jabraa s intellectual autobiography quickly developed as he traveled to Jerusalem, Oxford, and Harvard University, where he studied with I. A. Richards and Archibald MacLeish. A number of different teaching posts in Baghdad provided him opportunities to become friends with many leading poets, such as Buland al-Haydari and Tawfiq Sayigh; historians like George Antonius; and the renowned translators of Arabic literature Desmond Stewart and Denys Johnson-Davies. But this book is not only about matters of the mind, it is about matters of the heart as well. Jabra beautifully describes his lengthy love affair with a young Muslim woman, the beautiful Lamica, whom he first met near Princessesa Street and whom he eventually married. He recounts all of the difficulties they had to surmount, and the pleasures to be had. This is the last book that Jabra published during his lifetime. Not only is Jabraa s life an outstanding example of the circumstancesa and fatea of the Palestinian in the twentieth century, but it also provides countless interesting insights into the cultural life of the Middle East in general and its modes of interconnection with the West."
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- Title Princesses' Street: Baghdad Memories
- Author Jabra Ibrahim Jabra; Issa J. Boulatta (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 185
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, AR
- Date 2005-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781557288028 / 155728802X
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.08 x 0.51 in (21.64 x 12.90 x 1.30 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, Arab - 20th century, Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005021969
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Multicultural Review, 10/01/2006, Page 66
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2006, Page 1
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