Middle Eastern Literature and Its Times, Vol. 6
Dealing with modern as well as classical fiction and nonfiction works, this volume profiles 50 works of literature in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew as windows of understanding into Middle Eastern history and culture. Each entry provides historical background on the work and summarizes the historical themes present in the narrative. The works included range in time from The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2700 BCE) to A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani (1982). The volume also offers a chronology of...
