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The world through the eyes of angels / Mahmoud Saeed ; translated from the Arabic by Samuel Salter, Rafah Abuinnab, and Zahra Jishi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Said, Mahmud, 1938-
- Series:
- Middle East literature in translation.
- Middle East literature in translation
- Standardized Title:
- Dunyā fī aʻyun al-malāʼikah. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Iraq--Fiction.
- Families.
- Iraq--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways.In these crowded streets, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, pious and unbelieving, a boy is growing up.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The Mullah
- pt. 2. Al-Shahdi : the refuge of the fearful
- pt. 3. Miss Khadija and the carrot
- pt. 4. Selam
- pt. 5. The ravishing Madeleine
- pt. 6. To love anew
- pt. 7. Ghasoub and Ghadban
- pt. 8. Hajim and Sabika and a long night of love
- pt. 9. Shafaq
- pt. 10. Shu'a
- pt. 11. Nour
- pt. 12. Regrets.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8156-5077-9
- OCLC:
- 785782963
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