Arab Rebirth: Pain and Ecstasy

by Jacques Berque

Book Overview

In this eloquent essay, Jacques Berque has distilled a lifetime's love for, and study of, Arab history, life, and culture into a synthesis of remarkable insight and power. Moving effectively from pre-Islamic Arabia to twentieth-century Morocco, from theology to linguistics, from desert oasis to urban slum, from T.E. Lawrence to Nasser, from poetry to the politics of oil, he presents a perceptive synoptic portrait of a civilization in the grip of change. He conveys all the misery of a situation still stamped by centuries of foreign domination, and all the hope of a renaissance now a hundred years old and yet still in its infancy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863560156
• ISBN13: 9780863560156
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"