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Twentieth-century Arab writers

Title
Twentieth-century Arab writers / edited by Majd Yaser Al-Mallah and Coeli Fitzpatrick.
Publication
Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, ©2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Al-Mallah, Majd Yaser.
  • Fitzpatrick, Coeli.
Description
xxii, 391 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.
Summary
This volume provides readers an introduction to some of the prose writers from the Arabic-speaking Middle East, a geographical area marked by a diversity of languages, religion, and cultures. Regionally representative authors were chosen in compiling the list of subjects. Arab writers' fiction and critical writings provide firsthand insights into the challenges that continue to be faced by Middle Eastern societies.
Series Statement
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 346
Uniform Title
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 346.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1900-2000
  • Authors, Arab > 20th century > Biography
  • Authors, Arab
  • Schriftsteller
  • Literatur
  • Arab countries > Bio-bibliography
  • Arab countries
  • Arabien
  • Arabisch
Genre/Form
  • Reference works.
  • Bio-bibliography.
  • Biographies.
  • Ouvrages de référence.
Note
  • "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-285) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905) / Yasir Ibrahim Almallah -- Mas'udah Aboubakr (1954- ) / Hager Ben Driss -- Mohammed Arkoun (1928- ) / Ursula Günther -- Sadik Jalal al-Zam (1934- ) / Sebastian Maisel -- Liana Badr (1952- ) / Angela Saliba Bajalieh -- Halim Barakat (1936- ) / Jared Reene -- Rachid Boudjedra (1941- ) / Boutheina Khaldi -- Slaheddine Boujah (1956- ) / Hager Ben Driss -- Assia Djebar (Fatima-Zohra Imalayène) (1936- ) / Boutheina Khaldi -- Gamal al-Ghitani (1945- ) / Ayman A. El-Desouky -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) / John Walbridge -- Emile Habiby (1922-1996) / Kamal Abdel-Malek -- Sonallah Ibrahim (1937- ) / Mara Naaman -- Yusuf Idris (1927-1991) / Wyoma VanDuinkerken -- Isma'il Fahd Isma'il (1940- ) / Sebastian Maisel -- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920-1994) / Kamal Abdel-Malek -- Mohammed 'Abed al-Jabri (1935- ) / Mohamed Ourya -- 'Aziz al-Sayyid Jasim (1941-1991?) / Hager Ben Driss -- Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972) / Kamal Abdel-Malek -- Sahar Khalifeh (1941- ) / Ahmad al-Mallah -- Raif Khuri (1913-1967) / Malakeh Khoury and Goetz Nordbruch -- Abdallah Laroui (1933- ) / Mohamed Ourya -- Amin Maalouf (1949- ) / Coeli Fitzpatrick -- Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) / Majd Yaser Al-Mallah -- Fatima Mernissi (1940- ) / Azza Basarudin -- Hanna Mina (1924- ) / Toufoul Abou-Hodeib -- Abdelrahman Munif (1933-2004) / Sebastian Maisel -- Mushin al-Musawi (1945- ) / Hager Ben Driss -- Emily Nasrallah (1931- ) / Pennie Johnson -- 'Abd al-Hakim Qasim (1935-1990) / Christina Phillips -- Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) / Ovamir Anjum -- Nawal El Saadawi (1931- ) / Coeli Fitzpatrick -- Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (1935-1980) / John Walbridge -- Edward W. Said (1935-2003) / Matthew Abraham -- Tayeb Salih (1929- ) / Majd Yaser Al-Mallah -- Anton Shammas (1950- ) / Mahmoud Kayyal -- Hanan al-Shaykh (1945- ) / Wyoma vanDuinkerken -- Bahaa' Taher (1935- ) / Ayman A. El-Desouky -- Fuad al-Takarli (1927-2008) / Imed Nsiri -- Zakaria Tamer (1931- ) / Mahmoud Kayyal -- Hasan al-Turabi (1932- ) / Carol Bargeron -- Latifa al-Zayyat (1923-1996) / Ellen McLarney -- Constantine K. Zurayk (1909-2000) / Noomane Raboudi.
ISBN
  • 9780787681647
  • 0787681644
LCCN
2008041243
OCLC
  • ocn256767769
  • 256767769
  • SCSB-1497677
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library