商品簡介
In "Rebel, My Brother," Kahahof (1917-1979) describes the lives of her Iraqi and Tunisian-born Jewish parents living in Cairo in the mid-1950s. In "Welcome, Sadat," her last piece, she reimagines the biblical Exodus story. Starr (modern Arabic and Jewish literature and film, Cornell U.) and Somekh (emeritus, Arabic literature, Tel Aviv U.) introduce her autobiographical stories and essays as reflecting a lost world of interaction between Jews and Arabs. The writer, who lived in the US, Egypt, and Israel, termed this model of hybrid identity Levantinism (after the Levant region of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Arab East). The book includes a glossary of Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish terms. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Deborah A. Starr is Associate Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University and the Director of Cornell's Program of Jewish Studies. Sasson Somekh is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature at Tel Aviv University, where he was Halmos Chair of Arabic Literature.
