Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000

ISBN-13: 9781845195021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 168 str.

Sasson Somekh

Opis

This memoir is a continuation of the author s previous volume, which told of Sasson Somekh s boyhood and the circumstances under which his family decided to forsake Iraq, a land in which they were rooted for centuries, and move to Israel. A noted student of modern Arabic culture, Somekh relates his life as a university professor and writer, taking the readers to Oxford, Princeton, and Cairo, and introduces the scholars and writers he befriended along the way, including S. D. Goitein, Mustafa Badawi, and Haim Blanc. Somekh also devotes a major section to the Nobel Prize winning author Naguib Mahfouz, with whom he maintained a close comradeship for three decades."