Hobbi El Awal: My First Love (Arabic Edition) - Softcover

Khalifeh, Dr Sahar A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499567162 ISBN 13: 9781499567168

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Part II of the historical novel that started with Asslun Wa Fassl. The Palestinians confronting two enemies: the British Mandate and the Zionist movement. Khalifeh brings to the forefront the inner conflicts of the Palestinian society as it struggles to affirm its cultural and national identity, with focus on the fascinating character of the national hero Al Husseini. The novel shifts between the past and the present showing differences and similarities between both.

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Sahar Khalifeh Is considered the foremost Palestinian author and feminists in the Arab world, widely acclaimed for being the first feminist Palestinian writer, and for her sensitive, economical and lucid style. Her fame extends beyond Palestinian and Arab boarders, as her translations in many languages attest. After the defeat of the Arab states in the 1967 war against Israel, and in the midst of what Khalifeh describes as a “miserable, devastating” marriage, Khalifeh began to write her first novel and severed her marriage against of the norms of both her family and Palestinian society. The Arab defeat in the war of 1967 spurred Khalifeh towards new modes of thinking and creativity which led her greatly towards furthering her writing career. Praise from the Press Sahar Khalifeh "is the Virginia Woolf of Palestinian - Arabic literature." Borsenblatt "Her characters are so real you can actually relate to them by mistaking them for someone you know." The Daily Star – Jordan "The one Arab novelist who has written one novel after another to show the inseparability of feminist issues from social and political concerns is the Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh, whom I consider the best Arab woman novelist in the twentieth century." Professor Buthaina Shaaban

About this edition

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1499567162
• ISBN 13: 9781499567168
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Arabic
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 372