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The Desert at Dusk

The Desert at Dusk - Paperback

by Tahar Bekri
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tahar Bekri, Peter Thompson (Translator)Publish date:9/2/2025Pages:132
Language:EnglishPublisher:Contra Mundum PressISBN-13:9781940625782ISBN-10:1940625785UPC:9781940625782Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, African, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Political & ProtestSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCB0JF1S1E

This poetry by a prominent Tunisian writer is, in part, an exile's nostalgic evocation of his birthplace and childhood. In both form and content it suggests the Arabic of pre-Islamic poetry. It is a re-imagining of a particular form-the ancient odes to the desert. Along with this it is something very new: imagery, muscular and bright, that indicts radical, violent Islamists. Their perversion of Islam is reflected in the image of a sullied and suffering desert-the desert at dusk. Bilingual French-English edition.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Contra Mundum PressISBN-13:9781940625782ISBN-10:1940625785UPC:9781940625782Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, African, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Political & ProtestSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCB0JF1S1E
Publisher: Contra Mundum Press

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Tahar Bekri, Peter Thompson (Translator)

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Tahar Bekri

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