"Destined to Die" takes place in occupied East Jeruselem, the West Bank, and Lebanon (1979). Nabeel, a student at Bir Zeit University, is arrested on unsubstantiated charges of terrorism. Interrogated and tortured by Major Rosenberg, he is held in solitary confinement for weeks. Released, he decides to go to Lebanon to join the PLO. His devoted girl-friend, Samira--a fellow student--insists on going with him.
Earlier, Dr. Johnson--the American director of an archaeological institution where Nabeel's father works--attempts to get Nabeel released from prison. Troops storm his offices,...
"Destined to Die" takes place in occupied East Jeruselem, the West Bank, and Lebanon (1979). Nabeel, a student at Bir Zeit University, is arrested on ...
A London University philosophy graduate, Yosef-a Kurd-goes through an acrimonious divorce from his Western, feminist wife. A variant of Kafka's Joseph K., Joseph A. (Yosef Abu-Zwili) feels trapped in the maze of Western feminist web-an innocent sheep inhabiting a world populated by feminist wolves.
'Why sheep?' he asks. 'Ba.ba.ba.' he bleats, 'because I feel like one. Ba .ba.ba.because I think I am one.'
While in a London hospital ward, he writes his confessions, memoirs, reveries, and musings-'butterflies of the mind to be preserved as personal cameos'-for the benefit of the ignorant...
A London University philosophy graduate, Yosef-a Kurd-goes through an acrimonious divorce from his Western, feminist wife. A variant of Kafka's Joseph...
Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood depicts personal and family scenes, episodes, experiences, and impressions of the author's early life in Baghdad. Topics include the author's life in a newly-built house in "Kutchet es-Sa'ad," his "al-Azeel" and "al-Watani" school experiences, his passion for American and British films, his merchant brothers in the Shorja market, his family's enduring interest in Arabic music and musical instruments, observance of Sabbath and holy days, swimming lessons in the Tigris, the bustling "al-Rasheed Street," trips to Kifel and Ba'quba, and delightful nights on the...
Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood depicts personal and family scenes, episodes, experiences, and impressions of the author's early life in Baghdad. To...
"Shylock of Venice" is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. While the trial scene in Shakespeare's play is crude, unrealistic and unbelievable, designed for the Christian riffraff, the language of the play is very much poetic, with classical and biblical allusions, appreciable only by the educated. In "Shylock of Venice," Portia and her male and female companions are exposed as legal impostors and day-dreamers whose one year romantic marriages have collapsed. All are toppled from the pinnacle of Belmont fantasy-land, for their kind of idealized romance -- based on good looks and...
"Shylock of Venice" is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. While the trial scene in Shakespeare's play is crude, unrealistic and unbelie...
King Caliban presents a fresh and admirable view of Caliban, who manages, with his acquired use of the colonial's language, to gain his rightful kingship of the island, and Miranda's enduring love. King Caliban is a revolutionary version of Shakespeare's colonial Tempest, following the mock shipwreck, and the scattered travellers on the island. The play views Prospero as a missionary and a despot, who with his technological expertise, exploits the island's natural resources of airy spirits, using a different staff, a different robe, and a different book. While engaging in personal revenge,...
King Caliban presents a fresh and admirable view of Caliban, who manages, with his acquired use of the colonial's language, to gain his rightful kings...
Jesus of Nazareth's blasphemous statements, contradicting God's Torah and the teachings of the Hebrew Prophets, had earned him a place in "Gehinnom." His scheme of a Second Coming to smite all those that do not worship him as son of God and mankind's saviour led him to a second trial - this time by a Heavenly Sanhedrin. An array of biblical and extra-biblical persons cross-examine him or testify in the case. These include Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Zechariah, Micah, Obadiah, Daniel, Ezra the Scribe, a Pharisee and a Sadducee, Pontius Pilate, Joseph Caiaphas, the...
Jesus of Nazareth's blasphemous statements, contradicting God's Torah and the teachings of the Hebrew Prophets, had earned him a place in "Gehinnom...
