Outcast

von Shimon Ballas

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
• ISBN: 9780872864818
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2007
• Größe: 185 x 127 mm
• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Übersetzung: Ammiel Alcalay, Oz Shelach