Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0863565689 ISBN 13 : 9780863565687

Editeur : Saqi Books, 2004

Synopsis

Beirut - where plastic surgery meets the emotional intensity of the legendary diva Umm Kulthum, and Lebanese foodies go on the rampage. "Transit Beirut" is a unique anthology of complex urban experience that brings together personal writing, essays, journalism, short stories, photography and animation. The view is wide: from fiction to documentary, and everything in between. Beirut is undergoing an energetic process of rediscovery and reinvention by its own inhabitants, many of whom are only now returning to the city. With new and established Arab writers together for the first time, "Transit Beirut" oscillates between sarcastic humour and serious exploration of the tensions and conflicts in a society undergoing reconstruction. Things are never what they seem; students express themselves in the language of military conquest and athletes train to 'defeat' cholesterol. Here, TE Lawrence, Orientalism and a PLO grandmother's revolutionary milk interweave ...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Malu Halasa is a freelance writer who writes about the Near and Middle East for The Guardian, The Times and The Financial Times. Roseanne Khalaf is an assistant professor in the English Department and coordinator of creative writing at the American University of Beirut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Saqi Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0863565689
• ISBN 13: 9780863565687
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 191
• Éditeur: Halasa Malu, Khalaf Roseanne Saad
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible