Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781837641994
Content:
Somekh, a noted student of modern Arabic culture, relates his life as a university professor and writer, taking the reader to Oxford, Princeton and Cairo, and introducing scholars and writers he befriended: S D Goitein, Mustafa Badawi and Haim Blanc, among others. This title presents his story
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Transit Camp -- 2 Looking Around -- 3 The Tigris and the Jordan -- 4 "The earth shall rise on new foundations" -- 5 Lovers of Arabic in the First Hebrew City -- 6 Days with Alexander Penn -- 7 An Interrupted Dialogue -- 8 Father -- 9 Higher Learning in Lower Tel Aviv -- 10 Roman à clef: Three Years at the Academy of the Hebrew Language -- 11 A Family of My Own -- 12 Mustafa -- 13 Translating Literature -- 14 Haim Blanc -- 15 Saturday Evenings at the Goiteins -- 16 Students and Colleagues -- 17 1988 -- Two Experiences -- 18 A Modern Egyptian Sinbad -- 19 Cairo -- The Four Masters -- 20 Cairo -- End of the Century -- 21 An Encounter with Taha Hussein's Granddaughter -- 22 Naguib Mahfouz -- Thirty years of Friendship -- The Picture Section and Letter from Naguib Mahfouz.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781845195021
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845195027
Language:
English
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