Release Date: 15th October 2014 ISBN: 9780292763074 Dimensions: 140 x 216 Pages: 200 Series Rashid al-Daif’s provocative novel Who’s Afraid of Meryl Streep? takes an intimate look at the life of a recently married Lebanese man. Rashoud and his wife struggle as they work to negotiate not only their personal differences but also rapidly changing…
Arabia Books Price: £7.99 Publication Date: 2009-10-01 ISBN: 9781906697211 Format: Paperback Pages: 161 No matter how hard Rachid tries to recreate himself, to become educated and wordly – to ‘learn English’ – it is impossible for this hip Beiruti with his cell phone and high-speed internet to sever the connection to his past in the Lebanese…
Book Price: $12.95 ISBN: 1-56656-383-6 ’Who tore down the picture?’ That is the whole story, from A to Z. They wanted to know who tore down the picture. So opens Rachid Al-Daif’s This Side of Innocence, the story of one man’s run-in with the secret police of his unnamed, war-torn country. In ironic contrast with…
Release Date: 15th January 2015 ISBN: 9780292763104 Dimensions: 140 x 216 Pages: 300 Series In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the “West-East Divan” program, a cultural exchange effort meant to improve mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern cultures. He was paired with German author Joachim Helfer,…
ISBN: 0292705077 Price: $12.95 The narrative focuses on the deranged, destabilized, confused, and hyper-perceptive state of mind created by living on the scene through a lengthy war. The story is filled with details that transcend the willed narcissism of the main character, while giving clues to the culture of the time. It is excellent fiction,…
ISBN: 0704381133 In the author’s first novel to be translated into English, a young Lebanese soldier, mortally wounded in the final days of the 1991 civil war, reviews his life while drifting in and out of consciousness. (Al-Daif, who is from a Christian Maronite family, is a lecturer in Arabic language and literature at the…
