Al-Samt wa-al-Sakhab
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Al-Samt wa-al-Sakhab
The Authorized, Abridged, and Annotated Edition for Students of Arabic
Nihad Sirees
Hanadi Al-Samman, Editor The first annotated edition of Syrian writer Nihad Sirees's The Silence and the Roar, created for the Arabic language classroom Related Sites:
Hanadi Al-Samman is an associate professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on contemporary Arabic literature, diaspora, and sexuality studies, as well as transnational and Islamic feminisms. She is the author of Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings and coeditor of The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing.
Reviews
"A welcome addition to the growing library of readers designed for advanced students of Arabic. In addition to the fascinating story and the wealth of comprehension and production activities that accompany the text, this edition also includes an interview between the editor and author and audio of Sirees reading passages from the book. I know that the students in my Advanced Arabic class would love such a feature."—Munther A. Younes, Reis Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language and Linguistics, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University "This excellently abridged version of Syrian author Nihad Sirees's explosive but by now canonical novel Al-Samt wa al-Sakhab is a welcome addition to the growing body of textbooks for advanced Arabic students. Hanadi Al-Samman has annotated the novel, included an invaluable interview with and readings by the author, and provided intriguing and thought-provoking discussion themes. This book should be used by all professors of Arabic not only for its classroom exercises but also for the story it tells of a devastated country and its resilient citizens."—Miriam Cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University "Hanadi Al-Samman's annotated edition of the Syrian novel Al-Samt wa-al-Sakhab adds brilliantly to Georgetown University Press's initiative to provide works of Arabic literature for students in their third and fourth years of Arabic instruction. This edition offers students the satisfaction of consuming a real, contemporary Arab novel after several years of nibbling at snippets."—William M. Hutchins, translator of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Brief History of Contemporary Syria About the Author Nihad Sirees Audio Resources Part I: Al- amt wa-al- akhab : Part II: The Exercises : Literary Terms / About the Editor |