Mohamed El-Bisatie

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In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France to support the team, leaving the country to the care of its imported labor. How do they handle such newly found freedom?As though steered by a perverse blend between Dante and Scheherazade, we descend layer by layer beneath the façade of modernity: from the colorful multilingual throngs rejoicing for the Emirati team to the hierarchies that underpin them, from the luxurious… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-61797-062-7
EAN: 9781617970627
Produktnummer: 22570135
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'858 KB

Über den Autor

Mohamed El-Bisatie (1937-2012) was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, including A Last Glass of Tea (AUC Press, 1994), Houses behind the Trees (AUC Press, 1997), Clamor of the Lake (AUC Press, 2004), and Hunger (AUC Press, 2008). He was awarded the prestigious Oweiss Prize in 2001.Peter Daniel, a freelance translator, has taught Arabic as a foreign language in Cairo for many years. He is the translator of As Doha Said by Bahaa Taher (AUC Press, 2008).