Bibliograph

The dream palace of the Arabs, a generation's odyssey, Fouad Ajami

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The dream palace of the Arabs, a generation's odyssey, Fouad Ajami

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The dream palace of the Arabs

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

37157597

Responsibility statement

Fouad Ajami

Sub title

a generation's odyssey

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Prologue : The inheritance -- The suicide of Khalil Hawi : requiem for a generation -- In the shape of the ancestors -- In the land of Egypt : the saints and the worldliness -- The orphaned peace

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