My Great Arab Melancholy

My Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, tragic and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziadé. Blending the author's years of research, personal memoir and more than 300 illustrations, this compelling history of the modern Arab world explores the major thinkers, struggles and turning points that have shaped the Middle East as we know it today. Ziadé begins in South Lebanon, 'land of martyrs, ruins and passion', before taking the reader further afield, to Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo and Baghdad. The book moves from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, tracing the Arab world's tragedies and the derailing of dreams and possibilities caused in large part by Western imperialism and the conquest of Palestine. Within these pages there are the blasts of explosions, blood, tears and tragedy, cemeteries, wreaths and ribbons, martyrs and paradise. Ziadé unearths the buried memory of resistance fighters and their lost ideals. In haunting prose and unforgettable images she celebrates the progressive, bold, revolutionary moments and figures of the Arab world’s recent past.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2024
First published:	2024
Authors:	Lamia Ziadé
Translators:	Emma Ramadan
Dimensions:	215 x 175mm (L x W)
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-4815-5
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-7453-4815-7
Barcode:	9780745348155

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