Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground

From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love — an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world.

The twenty-five years’ worth of criticism and commentary collected here have earned Ahdaf Soueif a place among our most prominent Arab intellectuals. Clear-eyed and passionate, and syndicated throughout the world, they are the direct result of Soueif’s own circumstances of being “like hundreds of thousands of others: people with an Arab or a Muslim background doing daily double-takes when faced with their reflection in a western mirror.” Whether an account of visiting Palestine and entering the Noble Sanctuary for the first time, an interpretation of women who choose to wear the veil, or her post — September 11 reflections, Soueif’s intelligent, fearless, deeply informed essays embody the modern search for identity and community.

• Author
• Ahdaf Soueif

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 352

• Publisher
• Anchor

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-4000-9663-3

• EAN
• 9781400096633

• Genres
• essays, egypt, politics, israel

• Release date
• 2005