Outcast

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ISBN-10: 0872864812
ISBN-13: 9780872864818
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 05/01/2007
Dimensions: 7.28" L, 5.01" W, 0.63" H

Published by City Lights

Outcast

byShimon Ballas
Translator: Ammiel Alcalay
Translator: Oz Shelach

Paperback

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Overview

Haroun Soussan, narrator of Outcast and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who’s just completed his life’s work, The Jews and History. The book opens with him getting an award from Saddam Hussein during the time of the Iran-Iraq war. Written in the form of an autobiography, the narrative moves in and out of the present, the recent, and more distant past, providing a unique and intimate chronicle of Iraq’s contemporary political history.

  • Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951. Before retirement, he taught Arab Literature there, and now spends part of the year in Paris, where he does most of his writing.

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Details

ISBN-10: 0872864812
ISBN-13: 9780872864818
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 05/01/2007
Dimensions: 7.28" L, 5.01" W, 0.63" H
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