Arab Travellers and the Western Civilization.

EDS.]./JANA GOUGH -REVISED/TONY P. NAUFAL/YARED, NAZIK SABA [SUMAYYA DAMLUJI SHAHBANDER- TRANSL.

ISBN 10: 0863563368 / ISBN 13: 9780863563362

Published by London, Saqi Books. 1996, 2001

About this Item

Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, dustjacket, large 8vo: 252pp., chapternotes & references, conclusion, general bibliography, index. Fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 186318

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arab Travellers and the Western Civilization.
• Publisher: London, Saqi Books. 1996
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863563368
• ISBN 13: 9780863563362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

This covers political, economic, intellectual and cultural conflicts that remain a major problem for Arab identity by focusing on Arab traveller's writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A highly readable reference work for students of modern Arab civilisation.

About the Author

Nazik Saba Yared is a Lebanese academic and writer who teaches at Beirut University College. She is the author of several works on classical Arabic literature and four novels (all in Arabic). Impact of the West, which was published in Arabic to critical acclaim, is the first of Yared's books to be translated into English.