In search of Walid Masoud
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra ; translated from the Arabic by Roger Allen and Adnan Haydar
Contributors: Allen, Roger M. A; Haydar, Adnan
Series: Middle East literature in translation
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs -- Fiction; Jewish-Arab relations -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Baḥth ʻan Waliåd Masʻūd.
Description: "Walid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, suspicion arises that he has gone underground as part of a political movement. Masoud leaves behind a lengthy but disconnected tape recording of garbled utterances through which Jabra Ibrahim Jabra artfully crafts the basis for the narration.

He transforms the transcription of the tape by each of Masoud's comrades into a study of character. Through a series of monologues, each becomes a narrator of his own experience."--BOOK JACKET.