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My Great Arab Melancholy
My Great Arab Melancholy
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My Great Arab Melancholy is a captivating history of the modern Arab world by Lebanese author and illustrator Lamia Ziadé, blending personal memoir and over 300 illustrations to explore the major thinkers, struggles, and turning points that have shaped the Middle East. It traces the Arab world's tragedies and the derailing of dreams and possibilities caused by Western imperialism and the conquest of Palestine, unearthing the buried memory of resistance fighters and their lost ideals.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 424 pages
Publication date: 20 January 2024
Publisher: Pluto Press
Winner of the Prix littéraire France-Liban, "My Great Arab Melancholy" is a stunningly stylish, breathtakingly evocative tribute in words and art to the cosmopolitan Levant that exists in defiance of war and empire. I treasure my copy, written by the artist Molly Crabapple.
My Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, elegiac, and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziadé. Blending the author's years of research, personal memoir, and more than 300 illustrations, this compelling history of the modern Arab world explores the major thinkers, struggles, and turning points that have shaped the Middle East as we know it today.
Ziadé begins in South Lebanon, land of martyrs, ruins, and passion, before taking the reader on a journey through Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Baghdad. The book moves from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, tracing the Arab world's tragedies and the derailing of dreams and possibilities caused in large part by Western imperialism and the conquest of Palestine.
Within these pages, there are the blasts of explosions, blood, and tears; cemeteries, wreaths, and ribbons; martyrs and paradise. Ziadé unearths the buried memory of resistance fighters and their lost ideals. In haunting prose and unforgettable images, she celebrates the progressive, bold, revolutionary moments and figures of the Arab world's recent past.
Weight: 630g
Dimension: 169 x 235 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780745348155
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