Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
True Arab Love
- Publisher
- Linda Leith Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2016
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Political, Urban Life
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988130088
- Publish Date
- Sep 2016
- List Price
- $6.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988130071
- Publish Date
- Aug 2016
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Abdallah’s encounter with the military governor on the eve of his departure for America opens this collection of stories, and Khalil al-Ibrahami’s moving search for his lost fiancée in Jerusalem closes the collection. In between, Issa J. Boullata’s stories show what it’s like to be an Arab from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Egypt making a new life as an immigrant in Canada or the United States. This is what it is, to be displaced. This is what it is to leave your home and start over in a new country.
About the author
Born in Jerusalem, Issa J. Boullata taught Arabic studies at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, and later Arabic literature, Modern Arab Thought, and Qur’anic Studies at McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies. The author of several books on Arabic literature and on the Qur’an, he is a noted translator of Arabic literature and a contributing editor of Banipal magazine. His memoir, The Bells of Memory: A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem (Linda Leith Publishing, 2014), was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Prize. He lives in Montreal.
Awards
- Short-listed, QWF Mavis Gallant Prize