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001 2008037298
003 DLC
005 20100205075349.0
008 080822s2009 ctuab b 001 0beng
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020 $a9780300141504 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0300141505 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn244566802
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050 00 $aPJ7812.T34$bZ69 2009
082 00 $a892.7/16
100 1 $aHoffman, Adina.
245 10 $aMy happiness bears no relation to happiness :$ba poet's life in the Palestinian century /$cAdina Hoffman.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bYale University Press,$cc2009.
300 $avii, 454 p. :$bill., map ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 409-441) and index.
505 0 $aPrelude: Bir el-Amir -- Saffuriyya I -- Saffuriyya II -- Lebanon -- Reina -- Nazareth I -- Nazareth II.
520 $aFrom the Publisher: Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot to Lebanon and returned a year later to find his village destroyed. An autodidact, he has since run a souvenir shop in Nazareth, at the same time evolving into what National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Eliot Weinberger has dubbed "perhaps the most accessible and delightful poet alive today." As it places Muhammad Ali's life in the context of the lives of his predecessors and peers, My Happiness offers a sweeping depiction of a charged and fateful epoch. It is a work that Arabic scholar Michael Sells describes as "among the five 'must read' books on the Israel-Palestine tragedy." In an era when talk of the "Clash of Civilizations" dominates, this biography offers something else entirely: a view of the people and culture of the Middle East that is rich, nuanced, and, above all else, deeply human.
600 10 $aʻAlī, Ṭāhā Muḥammad.
650 0 $aPoets, Palestinian Arab$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008037298.html