Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual - Tapa blanda

Sharabi, Hisham

 
9781566567022: Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual
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ISBN 10: 1566567025 ISBN 13: 9781566567022
Editorial: Interlink Books, 2007

Sinopsis

Hisham Sharabi was a distinguished Palestinian intellectual and an outspoken critic of traditional Arab society and culture. Despite his upbringing as a member of the privileged class, his conscious self-analysis after the 1967 Arab defeat by Israel led him to radically change his former bourgeois outlook on his society and its culture. Embers and Ashes tells of Sharabi’s childhood and boyhood in Palestine, his youth and initial political activism as a university student in Lebanon, and his life and education as a graduate student in the US. He brings his newly acquired self-analysis and sociocultural criticism to bear on the story of each of these phases. Although Sharabi wrote many acclaimed books in English and Arabic expressing his insights into the flaws of Arab societal structure, culture, and politics, it is his autobiography, Embers and Ashes, first published in Arabic in 1978, that offers a candid, poignant, and engrossing account of his own personal formation and development.

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Hisham Sharabi (1927–2005) was born in Jaffa, Palestine, and studied at the American University of Beirut and the University of Chicago. He was a professor of history at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, until his retirement in 1998. Issa J. Boullata is a former professor of Arabic literature at McGill University. He is a writer, literary scholar, critic, editor, and translator.

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Editorial
Interlink Books
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1566567025
ISBN 13 
9781566567022
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
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