Leg Over Leg

Volume One

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Foreign Languages, Arabic, History, Middle East
Cover of the book Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Humphrey Davies, Library of Arabic Literature
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Author: Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Humphrey Davies ISBN: 9780814745410
Publisher: Library of Arabic Literature Publication: August 23, 2013
Imprint: Library of Arabic Literature Language: English
Author: Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Humphrey Davies
ISBN: 9780814745410
Publisher: Library of Arabic Literature
Publication: August 23, 2013
Imprint: Library of Arabic Literature
Language: English
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women’s rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq also celebrates the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language.
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Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women’s rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq also celebrates the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language.

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