Author Mansour Ajami was born during World War II in Saghbine, a poverty-stricken Lebanese village that had remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages. His autobiography, "The Book of Generations: A Reunion with Memory," traces his adaptation to the culture and thought of twenty-first-century America.
With a humorous, offbeat perspective, Ajami presents the inevitable culture clashes that shaped his intellectual evolution. He recounts ancient folklore and medieval church practices, the discovery of luscious and accomplished Western women, and the ways of poor fathers and obdurate...
Author Mansour Ajami was born during World War II in Saghbine, a poverty-stricken Lebanese village that had remained virtually unchanged since the Mid...
"Death, old age aside, Nothing is more humbling than a book or a woman. A beautiful woman." With a multicultural aesthetic perspective and a poetic voice that is simultaneously autobiographical and concrete, emotional and surrealistic, universal and humanist, Lebanese-American poet Mansour Ajami introduces his first collection of lyrical expression in "Words in the Memory of the Night." This diverse compilation of more than eighty poems demonstrates diversity and difference of theme, employment of metaphor, idiom, and intellectual and emotional interplay, while exploring philosophical issues...
"Death, old age aside, Nothing is more humbling than a book or a woman. A beautiful woman." With a multicultural aesthetic perspective and a poetic vo...
"Death, old age aside, Nothing is more humbling than a book or a woman. A beautiful woman." With a multicultural aesthetic perspective and a poetic voice that is simultaneously autobiographical and concrete, emotional and surrealistic, universal and humanist, Lebanese-American poet Mansour Ajami introduces his first collection of lyrical expression in "Words in the Memory of the Night." This diverse compilation of more than eighty poems demonstrates diversity and difference of theme, employment of metaphor, idiom, and intellectual and emotional interplay, while exploring philosophical issues...
"Death, old age aside, Nothing is more humbling than a book or a woman. A beautiful woman." With a multicultural aesthetic perspective and a poetic vo...