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Life after Baghdad : memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000 / Sasson Somekh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Somekh, Sasson, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews, Iraqi--Israel--Biography.
- Jews, Iraqi.
- College teachers--Israel--Biography.
- College teachers.
- Arabic teachers--Israel--Biography.
- Arabic teachers.
- Somekh, Sasson.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Eastbourne, England : Sussex Academic Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-83764-199-4
- OCLC:
- 1382694771
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