The Dream Palace of the Arabs - Hardcover

Ajami, Fouad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375401504 ISBN 13: 9780375401503

Publisher: Pantheon, 1998

Synopsis

Offers an elegiac account of a group of Arab men and women living after World War I, whose hopeful vision of Arab culture and nationhood clashed with traditional Arab customs

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Review:

"An important and illuminating book . . . a valuable testament to a tragic generation that tried to bridge the Arab past with modern ideals." --The New York Times

"The Dream Palace of the Arabs is an absorbing and sadly moving account of what political and economic failures on a grand scale have meant in human terms and at an individual level." --The Washington Post Book World

"Eloquent. . . . A clear-eyed look at the lost hopes of the Arabs. It opens the door to the thought processes of a society whose motivations have been little understood and often feared. The Dream Palace of the Arabs is a courageous book." --The Christian Science Monitor

About the Author:

Fouad Ajami is the Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Born in the south of Lebanon and raised in Beirut, he is the author of The Dream Palace of the Arabs, The Arab Predicament, The Vanished Iman, and Beirut: City of Regrets. He is a contributing editor for The New Republic and U.S. News and World Report and is a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs. His work on Middle Eastern politics and culture has been recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375401504
• ISBN 13: 9780375401503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344