Year of the elephant

Informationen zum Autor Leila Abouzeid is a pioneer among Moroccan women writers. She studied at Mohammed V University in Rabat and at the University of Texas at Austin. She began her career as a radio and TV journalist and also worked as a press assistant in government ministries and in the prime minister's office. In 1992 she left journalism to dedicate herself to writing. Abouzeid's fiction has been translated from Arabic into English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Maltese, French, Turkish, and Urdu.Barbara Parmenter is a lecturer in the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Klappentext Includes glossary and interview with the author. Zusammenfassung Zahra has just returned to her hometown after being divorced by her husband for being too traditional and unable to keep up with his modern way of life. Having devoted herself to the creation of independent Morocco, she had expected to share the fruits of independence with him, but instead she finds herself cast out into a strange world.

Product details

• Authors: Leila Abouzeid, Leila Harlow Abouzeid, l parmenter Abu zayd
• Assisted by: Barbara Parmenter (Translation), Barbara McKean Parmenter (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2009
• EAN: 9780292721722
• ISBN: 978-0-292-72172-2
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Modern Middle East Literature; CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation; CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation; Modern Middle East Literature; Cmes Modern Middle East Litera
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature