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Madinah (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Madinah - the Arabic word for city - may conjure labyrinthine streets and the hustle and bustle of the souq in Westerners minds, but for the inhabitants of the Middle East it is a much more mercurial thing, and one that's changing today faster than ever. Here - in ten urban stories set across the region - the city reveals itself through a vibrant array of characters: from the celebrated author collecting an award in the city that exiled him decades before, to the forlorn lover waiting at a rendezvous as government officials raid nearby shops, confiscating wanton Valentine's Day roses. Whilst engineers race to complete another world s tallest building in Dubai, and American helicopters patrol the Martyrs Bridge in Baghdad, we realise it is the people, and not the landmarks, that define these places; like the language student in Beirut who tries to make a joke of being war-broken to her friends, or the Israeli General who invites guests to his office to watch promo videos for the tank that will win the next war whilst eating biscuits and reciting poetry. For all we think we know of the conflict and exoticism of the region, nothing opens more doors to what we don t than its writing. Here, ten short stories by new and established writers have been selected and translated in English for the first time, to open just such a door...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Comma Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910974902
• Artikelnr.: 62770240

Autorenporträt

Joumana Haddad is a poet, a translator, a journalist, and the editor in chief of Jasad magazine. She is the author of Bad Habits, I Did Not Commit Enough Errors, Lilith's Return, and The Panther Hiding at the Base of Her Shoulders. She is the coauthor of Invitation to a Secret Feast: Selected Poems.