My happiness bears no relation to happiness : a poet's life in the Palestinian century / Adina Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Adina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ʻAlī, Ṭāhā Muḥammad.

Poets, Palestinian Arab--Biography.

Poets, Palestinian Arab.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot to Lebanon and returned a year later to find his village destroyed. An autodidact, he has since run a souvenir shop in Nazareth, at the same time evolving into what National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Eliot Weinberger has dubbed "perhaps the most accessible and delightful poet alive today."As it places Muhammad Ali's life in the context of the lives of his predecessors and peers, My Happiness offers a sweeping depiction of a charged and fateful epoch. It is a work that Arabic scholar Michael Sells describes as "among the five 'must read' books on the Israel-Palestine tragedy." In an era when talk of the "Clash of Civilizations" dominates, this biography offers something else entirely: a view of the people and culture of the Middle East that is rich, nuanced, and, above all else, deeply human.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prelude: Bir el-Amir

Saffuriyya I

Saffuriyya II

Lebanon

Reina

Nazareth I

Nazareth II

Illustrations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612353130

9786612089688

9780300155808

0300155808

9781282353138

1282353136

9781282089686

1282089684

OCLC:

406178824