Saud al-Sanousi's Saaq al-Bambuu: The Authorized Abridged Edition for Students of Arabic

by Saud Al-Sanousi, Laila Familiar, Tanit Assaf

Overview

Saaq al-Bambuu by Saud al-Sanousi provides students at the intermediate-advanced Arabic language level the opportunity to engage with work of contemporary fiction. Included within the book are chapter exercises that develop linguistic and cultural competencies, a short biography of the author, and glossaries of literary terms and devices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626163850
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Language:	Arabic
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Laila Familiar teaches Arabic at NYU-Abu Dhabi and is the author of Hoda Barakat's Sayyidi wa Habibi.

Tanit Assaf teaches Arabic at the Official Language School of Barcelona.

Saud al-Sanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist. His work has won several awards, including the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013) for Saaq al-Bambuu.

Table of Contents

Preface for the Instructor ix

Preface for the Reader xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Notes on Web Resources xix

Saud al-Sanousi xxi

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Exercises 247

Articles 343

Literary Terms 361

Literary Devices 365

About the Editors 367

What People are Saying About This

Margaret Litvin

Like Familiar’s earlier work with Hoda Barakat, this abridgement is a wonder: faithful, yet precisely calibrated to meet and stretch the vocabulary of advanced undergraduate Arabic learners. Al-Sanousi’s half-Kuwaiti Filipino narrator broaches topics most contemporary Arabic fiction will not touch. Familiar & Assaf’s exercises give students 80 pages of context, tools, and confidence for an intelligent discussion. Good for classrooms in the Arab world, too.

Editorial Reviews

Like Familiar’s earlier work with Hoda Barakat, this abridgement is a wonder: faithful, yet precisely calibrated to meet and stretch the vocabulary of advanced undergraduate Arabic learners. Al-Sanousi’s half-Kuwaiti Filipino narrator broaches topics most contemporary Arabic fiction will not touch. Familiar & Assaf’s exercises give students 80 pages of context, tools, and confidence for an intelligent discussion. Good for classrooms in the Arab world, too.

Margaret Litvin