Mohammad Ali Taha's "A Rose to Hafeeza's Eyes" and Other Stories"Mohammad Ali Taha is a well-known Palestinian writer residing in Galilee as an Israeli citizen. Despite his fame in the Arab world, his works are still unfamiliar to Western audiences. In this volume, translator Jamal Assadi has collected a selection of Taha's short stories, representing a variety of themes, styles, historical periods, contexts, settings, tones, languages, narrations, and characters, with the intent to help Taha enter what Edward Said calls "the large, many-windowed house of human culture as a whole." In his introduction, Assadi discusses the culture, traits, and manners of Taha's world, which provides the reader with a greater appreciation and understanding of the short stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
A Rose to Hafeezas Eyes | 19 |
The Dinosaur | 39 |
One Night on Rigas Train | 58 |
Copyright | |
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Mohammad Ali Taha's "A Rose to Hafeeza's Eyes" and Other Stories Muḥammad ʻAlī Ṭāhā Limited preview - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
al-Fatiha al-Habeeb Allah answered Arab as-Safadi ash-Shami asked beautiful birds body cage called child chirps cigarette clothes coffee Comrade Marwan damned daughter Deeb Dinosaur divan drink face father felt fitcher girl grandpa guests Hafeeza Hafeeza's Eyes hair Hajj Hajjah Radiyah Hala halal hand happened Hasan al-Aabed head heard heart husband Imam Kayed ad-Deeb Kharachoo Khawlah knew kolkhoz laughed legs looked married Mecca Mohammad morning mother mouth neck neighbor Neit never night October Revolution Odwan palm perfume prayer prophet Quran Ramadan Rose Salam Sameeh Satan Shabak Sheikh Abdul Haleem Sheikh Hamzah shook shouted sing smile Soviet Union stared stood stories sunnah taboon bread Taha Taha's talk tell Thabet thing took uncle village voice walked wanted wife wild honey wild mint woman women write yellow yoghurt Yosuf young Zahrah