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MY HAPPINESS BEARS NO RELATION TO HAPPINESS
A POET'S LIFE IN THE PALESTINIAN CENTURY |
| By: |
Adina Hoffman |
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Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300141505 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300141504 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 March, 2009 |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Description: |
Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee om the war in 1948. He traveled on foot to Lebanon and returned a year later to find his village destroyed. This book tells the story of this man and the culture from which he emerged. It offers a view of the people and culture of the Middle East. |
| Synopsis: |
Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot to Lebanon and returned a year later to find his village destroyed. An autodidact, he has since run a souvenir shop in Nazareth, at the same time evolving into what one leading American critic has dubbed 'perhaps the most accessible and delightful poet alive today'.As it places Muhammad Ali's life in the context of the lives of his predecessors and peers, "My Happiness" offers a sweeping depiction of a charged and fateful epoch. It is a work that Arabic scholar Michael Sells describes as 'among the five 'must read' books on the Israel-Palestine tragedy'. In an era when talk of the 'Clash of Civilizations' dominates, this biography offers something else entirely: a view of the people and culture of the Middle East that is rich, nuanced, and above all else, deeply human. |
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65 black-&-white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
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Returnable |
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