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My Great Arab Melancholy

Lamia Ziadé

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#1023 of 3,809 books · #388 in History

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2024).

My Great Arab Melancholy won the Prix littéraire France-Liban. My Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, elegiac 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.

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Publisher
Pluto Books
ISBN-13
9780745348179
Genre
History
Topics
Modern Arab historyMiddle East politics and conflictWestern imperialism and Palestine

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