A reader in modern literary Arabic is a modern arabic fiction first published in 1960 by the mid-20th-century author Farhat Jacob Ziadeh. Indexed in KitabiHub under Modern Arabic Fiction, The Arab World, it sits alongside other modern arabic fiction on the same shelf.
Like much of the Arabic literary tradition, A reader in modern literary Arabic rewards close reading: its rhythms reach back to a thousand years of poetry and rhetoric, while its concerns — exile, memory, the city, the desert, the relationship between the writer and the political moment — speak directly to the present. Readers approaching the book without prior background will find the description above a useful entry point; those already familiar with Farhat Jacob Ziadeh's work will recognise the recurring preoccupations.
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About the author
Farhat Jacob Ziadeh is part of the long Arabic literary tradition catalogued on KitabiHub. Their work appears alongside the great voices of the Nahda renaissance, the Cairo realists of the mid-twentieth century, and the new generation of writers from across the Arab world.
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