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Dream Palace of the Arabs, The: A Generation's Odyssey
 
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Dream Palace of the Arabs, The: A Generation's Odyssey (Hardcover)
by Fouad Ajami (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Pantheon Books Inc (15 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0375401504
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375401503
  • Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,507,460 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Offers an elegiac account of a group of Arab men and women living after World War I, whose hopeful vision of Arab culture and nationhood clashed with traditional Arab customs.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Melancholy Dream Palace, 19 Jun 1999
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This review is from: The Dream Palace of the Arabs (Vintage International) (Paperback)
If for nothing else, Fouad's essay on "The Orphaned Peace" is worth the price of admission. His insight is peerless, his prose lyrical (his editor did a wonderful job preserving his unique style and language), and his thoughts are, as always, challenging. As one can see from other reader reviews, it takes an uncommon intellectual courage for him to look with such unblinking eyes at the world he grew up in. It is a sad story, told in a unique idiom. A must-read for anyone, Arab or Jew, interested in the region.
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