Cover of The Dream Palace of the Arabs

Book 2009

The Dream Palace of the Arabs

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Published
2009
  • Intellectuals
  • Politics and government
  • Nationalism
  • History
  • Nonfiction
  • Nationalism, arab countries
  • New York Times reviewed

WHEN THE IRAQI poet Buland Haidari was buried in London in the summer of 1996, the men and women of Arabic letters who bade him farewell could not miss the poignancy of his fate.