Mejcher-Atassi An Impossible Friendship

Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56044-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 47, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends came together across religious lines in a fleeting moment of possibility within a troubled history. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi tells the story of this unlikely friendship and in so doing offers an intimate cultural and social history of Palestine in the postwar period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Prologue: The King David Hotel Bombing, Jerusalem, July 22, 1946
Introduction: Reading an Impossible Friendship Through a Group Portrait
Part I: The Time Before 1948
1. Changing Jerusalem: A New Panorama of the Holy City
2. Walid Khalidi: A Jerusalemite “in the Byronic Tradition”
3. Rasha Salam Khalidi: “A Non-Conformist Moslem Arab Woman”
4. Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Belated Surrealist and “Exclusive Geheimtyp”
5. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: “Spark-Plug” of the YMCA Arts Club
Part II: The Time Beyond
6. Border Crossing
7. Public Engagement in Worlds Apart
Epilogue: Late Correspondence
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is a professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the American University of Beirut. She is the author of Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art (2012), as well as coeditor of The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual (2021), Rafa Nasiri: Artist Books (2016), and Archives, Museums, and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (2012).