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A Drawing from al-Jabal (2)

Thomas Thompson February 20, 2018
Tags Egypt, 1960s, Drawing

A Drawing from al-Jabal

Thomas Thompson February 19, 2018
Tags Egypt, 1960s, Drawing, Charcoal, Novel

The Mountain

Thomas Thompson February 16, 2018

Fatḥī Ghānim (al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Hilāl, 1965)

Tags Novel, Egypt, 1960s, Drawing

Image from Yasin and Bahiyyah

Thomas Thompson February 15, 2018
Tags Egypt, Photography

Yasin and Bahiyyah, by Naguib Surur

Thomas Thompson February 14, 2018
Tags Egypt, Drawing, Painting

I Stared at the Night of the City

Thomas Thompson February 13, 2018

Bakhtiyar Ali, translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman (Reading: Periscope, an imprint of Garnet Publishing Limited, 2016)

Tags Kurdish, Translation, England, Britain, British, 2010s, Kurd, Novel

My Uncle Napoleon

Thomas Thompson February 12, 2018

 Iraj Pezeshkzad, translated from the Persian by Dick Davis (Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 1996)

Tags Persian, Translation, American, America, Iran, 1990s

Three Drops of Blood

Thomas Thompson February 9, 2018

Ṣādiq Hidāyat, Sih qaṭrih-yi khūn (Tihrān: Jāvīdān, 2536 [1977])

Tags Persian, Short Story, Photography, Drawing, 1970s

The Little Black Fish

Thomas Thompson February 8, 2018
Tags Persian, Animals, Translation, English, America, American

A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair (4)

Thomas Thompson February 7, 2018
Tags Lebanon, Armenia, Armenian, Lebanese, 1970s

A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair (3)

Thomas Thompson February 6, 2018
Tags Armenian, Lebanese, 1970s, Beirut

A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair (2)

Thomas Thompson February 5, 2018
Tags Lebanon, Armenia, Lebanese, Armenian, Painting, 1970s

A Painting from al-Ḥājj's The Messenger with Her Long Hair

Thomas Thompson February 2, 2018

The paintings in this book are by Paul Guiragossian, an Armenian forced out of Palestine--where he was born--in 1947. He became an important figure in the Beirut art scene. For more information, see here.

Tags Painting, 1970s, Beirut, Lebanon

The Messenger with Her Long Hair Until the Springs

Thomas Thompson February 1, 2018

Unsī al-Ḥājj (Bayrūt: Dār al-Nahār li-l-Nashr, 1975)

Tags Lebanon, Poetry, 1970s

Generation, Class, and Vision

Thomas Thompson January 31, 2018

Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm: al-jīl wa-l-ṭabaqah wa-l-ruʼyā

by Ghālī Shukrī (Bayrūt : Dār al-Fārābī, 1993)

Tags Criticism, Photography, Egypt, 1990s

In the Tavern of Life

Thomas Thompson January 30, 2018

Tawfiq al-Hakim, translated by William Maynard Hutchins (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998)

Tags Translation, America, American, Egypt, 1990s

Drawing from Ah... If Only the Youth Knew! (4)

Thomas Thompson January 29, 2018
Tags Egypt, Drawing, 1980s

Drawing from Ah... If Only the Youth Knew! (3)

Thomas Thompson January 25, 2018
Tags Egypt, Drawing, 1980s

Drawing from Ah... If Only the Youth Knew! (2)

Thomas Thompson January 24, 2018
Tags Egypt, 1980s, Drawing

A Drawing from Ah... If Only the Youth Knew!

Thomas Thompson January 23, 2018
Tags Egypt, 1980s, Drawing
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