Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground
Ahdaf Soueif$12.71
$14.95
From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love-an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world.
The twenty-five years' worth of criticism and commentary collected here have earned Ahdaf Soueif a place among our most prominent Arab intellectuals. Clear-eyed and passionate, and syndicated throughout the world, they are the direct result of Soueif's own circumstances of being "like hundreds of thousands of others: people with an Arab or a Muslim background doing daily double-takes when faced with their reflection in a western mirror." Whether an account of visiting Palestine and entering the Noble Sanctuary for the first time, an interpretation of women who choose to wear the veil, or her post--September 11 reflections, Soueif's intelligent, fearless, deeply informed essays embody the modern search for identity and community.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 10/11/2005
ISBN: 9781400096633
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.30w x 0.77d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2005 pg. 905
Publishers Weekly 09/05/2005 pg. 51
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 144
Library Journal 10/01/2005 pg. 76
The twenty-five years' worth of criticism and commentary collected here have earned Ahdaf Soueif a place among our most prominent Arab intellectuals. Clear-eyed and passionate, and syndicated throughout the world, they are the direct result of Soueif's own circumstances of being "like hundreds of thousands of others: people with an Arab or a Muslim background doing daily double-takes when faced with their reflection in a western mirror." Whether an account of visiting Palestine and entering the Noble Sanctuary for the first time, an interpretation of women who choose to wear the veil, or her post--September 11 reflections, Soueif's intelligent, fearless, deeply informed essays embody the modern search for identity and community.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 10/11/2005
ISBN: 9781400096633
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.30w x 0.77d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2005 pg. 905
Publishers Weekly 09/05/2005 pg. 51
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 144
Library Journal 10/01/2005 pg. 76