Hala El Badry

Rain Over Baghdad

An Egyptian Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the end of the twentieth century? The mid-seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq-Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many Egyptians. The narrator has a behind-the-scenes view of what was really happening at a critical juncture in the history of the region. Moreover, she has a mystery to solve: an Iraqi woman, a communist journalist, has disappeared...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 149mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9789774165887
• ISBN-10: 9774165888
• Artikelnr.: 37664881

Autorenporträt

Hala El Badry is deputy editor-in-chief of Egypt's radio and television magazine. She is the author of four novels, including A Certain Woman (AUC Press, 2003) and Muntaha (AUC Press, 2006). Farouk Abdel Wahab was Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Chicago. He was the translator of many works of Arabic fiction, including Gamal al-Ghitani's The Book of Epiphanies (AUC Press, 2012). He won the 2007 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of The Lodging House, by Khairy Shalaby (AUC Press pbk, 2008). He died in 2013, shortly after completing this translation.