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The Polymath

Thomas Thompson February 22, 2017

Binsālim Himmīsh's Al-ʿAllāmah (al-Rabāṭ : Maṭbaʻat al-Maʻārif al-Jadīdah, 2001)

Tags Morocco, 2000s, Painting, Novel, Prose

Back Door of the City of Forgetting and Astonishment

Thomas Thompson February 21, 2017

By Muḥammad Ḥīzī, 1st ed. ([Tūnis]: al-Dār al-ʿArabiyyah li-l-Kitāb, 1994)

Tags Tunisia, 1990s, Painting, Prose, Novel

Temple Bar by Bahaa Abdelmagid

Thomas Thompson February 6, 2017

Published by AUC Press, translation by Jonathan Wright.

Tags Egypt, 2000s, Prose, Novel, Photography

al-Shābbī's "Arab Poetic Imagination"

Thomas Thompson January 12, 2017

Blue butterflies brighten the cover of this prose work by one of modern Arabic literature's best known Romantics (or is he a Revolutionary?).

Tags Tunisia, Poetry, Prose

War in the Land of Egypt - Yūsuf al-Qaʿīd

Thomas Thompson October 18, 2016

Cover of War in the Land of Egypt by Yūsuf al-Qaʿīd. A film based on the book was released in 1991.

Tags Egypt, Prose, Novel

Land of Sad Oranges (أرض البرتقال الحزين)

Thomas Thompson September 22, 2016

Cover of Ghassān Kanafānī's 1963 Arḍ al-burtuqāl al-ḥazīn (Beirut: Manshūrāt Dār al-Fajr al-Jadīd)

Tags Palestine, Prose
 

The Arts and Adab image feed offers a look at visual and other creative arts from across the Arab world of the 20th century. Posts with brief commentary. 

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