Bread and Tea: The Story of a Man from Karak - Tarawneh, Ahmad
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In this post-Arab Spring novel, Ahmad Tarawneh addresses the root causes and circumstances that lead a desperate young Jordanian to be recruited into a terrorist organization by a skillful, self-serving sheikh, telling the story of conflicting loyalties between two brothers, one who serves in the Jordanian Armed Forces and the other who belongs to an extremist group. The novel depicts the positive and negative forces that influence the two brothers in their soul-searching quest of self-actualization that leads to more questions than answers-- questions many Arab youth continue to ask today.

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In this post-Arab Spring novel, Ahmad Tarawneh addresses the root causes and circumstances that lead a desperate young Jordanian to be recruited into a terrorist organization by a skillful, self-serving sheikh, telling the story of conflicting loyalties between two brothers, one who serves in the Jordanian Armed Forces and the other who belongs to an extremist group. The novel depicts the positive and negative forces that influence the two brothers in their soul-searching quest of self-actualization that leads to more questions than answers-- questions many Arab youth continue to ask today.
Autorenporträt
AHMAD TARAWNEH is a Jordanian novelist, playwright, and journalist. He served as the vice chair of the Jordanian Writers Society Executive Board and won the Jordanian National Award for his novel Wadi Al-Safsafa in 2009. NESREEN AKHTARKHAVARI is associate professor of Arabic language and culture and the director of Arabic Studies at DePaul University where she teaches Arabic literature, culture, film, media, and translation.