The Other Middle East: An Anthology Of Modern Levantine Literature
by Franck Salameh /
2018 / English / EPUB
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This unique literary collection offers a window on the
contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and
northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in
Arabic, French, Aramaic, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Hebrew, and
reflecting an extraordinary diversity of cultures, faiths,
traditions, and languages, the selections in this book also
convey a wide range of ideas and perspectives, to offer readers a
nuanced understanding of the mosaic that is the contemporary
Middle East. Franck Salameh, who compiled this anthology over the
course of more than two decades, introduces and annotates each
selection for the benefit of the uninitiated reader, offering
background on the various peoples and politics of the Levant. In
these pages, we discover a Middle East in which, as one writer
puts it, “an Armenian and a Turk can still hold hands in the
midst of massacres.”
This unique literary collection offers a window on the
contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and
northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in
Arabic, French, Aramaic, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Hebrew, and
reflecting an extraordinary diversity of cultures, faiths,
traditions, and languages, the selections in this book also
convey a wide range of ideas and perspectives, to offer readers a
nuanced understanding of the mosaic that is the contemporary
Middle East. Franck Salameh, who compiled this anthology over the
course of more than two decades, introduces and annotates each
selection for the benefit of the uninitiated reader, offering
background on the various peoples and politics of the Levant. In
these pages, we discover a Middle East in which, as one writer
puts it, “an Armenian and a Turk can still hold hands in the
midst of massacres.”
