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In a fertile desert : modern writing from the United Arab Emirates /
Here, for the first time, is a volume of short stories from this commercially and culturally vital and vibrant center of the Arab world. Life before oil in this region was harsh, and many of the stories in this collection-by both men and women from all corners of the country-tell of those times and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Modern Arabic literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Here, for the first time, is a volume of short stories from this commercially and culturally vital and vibrant center of the Arab world. Life before oil in this region was harsh, and many of the stories in this collection-by both men and women from all corners of the country-tell of those times and the almost unbelievable changes that have come about in the space of two generations. Some tell of the struggles faced in the early days, while others bring the immediate past and the present together, revealing that the past, with all its difficulties and dangers, nonetheless possesses a certain no. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 112 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781936190362 1936190362 9781617971686 1617971685 |