Life after Baghdad
Subtitle: memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000
By: Sasson Somekh
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781845195021
Subjects: College teachers; Biography; Arabic teachers; Iraqi Jews
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The transit camp; title: Scouting about the land; title: The Tigris and the Jordan; title: The earth shall rise on new foundations; title: Lovers of Arabic in the first Hebrew city; title: Days with Alexander Penn; title: An interrupted dialogue; title: Father; title: Higher learning in lower Tel Aviv; title: Roman à clef: three years at the academy of the Hebrew language; title: A family of my own; title: Mustafa; title: Translating literature; title: Haim Blanc; title: Saturday evenings at the Goiteins; title: Students and colleagues; title: 1988, two experiences; title: A modern Egyptian Sinbad; title: Cairo, the four masters; title: Cairo, end of the century; title: An encounter with Taha Hussein's granddaughter; title: Naguib Mahfouz, thirty years of friendship; title: Notes.