Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Author, I. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra/Tr -Boulatta, Author, Ibrahim Jabra Jabra, Author University of Arkansas Press $29.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55728-349-8
With a Proustian attention to details, Jabra, a prominent Arabic author who died in Iraq in 1994, recaptures his youth in British-mandated Bethlehem and Jerusalem, where he attended Greek Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, and ``National'' schools. With...
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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Author, I. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra/Tr -Boulatta, Author, Ibrahim Jabra Jabra, Author University of Arkansas Press $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55728-381-8
With a Proustian attention to details, Jabra, a prominent Arabic author who died in Iraq in 1994, recaptures his youth in British-mandated Bethlehem and Jerusalem, where he attended Greek Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, and ``National'' schools. With...
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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Author, Roger M. A. Allen, Translator, Adnan Haydar, Translator Syracuse University Press $26.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-8156-0646-8
In this fiercely partisan jigsaw puzzle of a novel, published in 1978 and translated here for the first time, Jabra explores the Arab intellectual's response to the turmoil in the Middle East in the postcolonial era. The novel begins with the...
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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Author, Ghassan Nasr, Translator , trans. from Arabic by Ghassan Nasr. Syracuse Univ. $22.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-8156-0883-7
Set during the first intifada, this sophisticated, graceful love story—the final work of Palestinian author and literary critic Jabra (1920–1994)—is a hallmark of contemporary Arabic literature. Sarab (Arabic for "illusion")
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