Santa Claus in Baghdad and other stories about teens in the Arab world
By: Elsa Marston.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington IN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253220042
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction; Coming of age -- Fiction; Short stories; Middle East -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction; Arab countries -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction; Middle East -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Arab countries -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Fiction; Juvenile fiction.
Notes: A collection of eight stories, most previously published in other anthologies, about what it is like to grow up in the Middle East today. Includes notes which place the stories in context.
Table of contents: title: Santa Claus in Baghdad: a story from Iraq (2000); title: Faces: a story from Syria; title: The hand of Fatima: a story from Lebanon; title: The olive grove: a story from Palestine; title: In line: a story from Egypt; title: Scenes in a Roman theater: a story from Tunisia; title: Honor: a story from Jordan; title: The plan: a story from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.