Memories of Our Future
Subtitle: Selected Essays 1982-1999
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780872863606
Subjects: Other prose: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Middle East; Hamito-Semitic Literature; Politics / Current Events; Semitic languages; Literature: Classics; Middle Eastern; History & Theory - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Essays; Arab-Israeli conflict; Intellectual life; Palestinian Arabs; Sephardim
Description: "As a poet, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time, The New Republic, and Middle East Report, as well as for such literary journals as Grand Street, Conjunctions, and Paper Air. In Memories of Our Future, the unique intellectual and political path forged by Alcalay over the past fifteen years has now been colelcted into one volume. In a mix of personal narrative, political commentary, and literary criticism, Alcalay surveys diverse subjects, among them medeterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Inraeli/Palestinian conflict, and the war in Bosnia."--BOOK JACKET.