Taha Hussein's The Days: A Guided Study for Arabic Learners

Taha Hussein's The Days: A Guided Study for Arabic Learners

by David DiMeo
Taha Hussein's The Days: A Guided Study for Arabic Learners

Taha Hussein's The Days: A Guided Study for Arabic Learners

by David DiMeo

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Overview

Volume one of Taha Hussein's classic work, unabridged, and supported with robust comprehension, interpretation, and analytical exercises, for advanced learners of Arabic

Taha Hussein’s autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature. With this guided study, the complete first volume of the novel is accessible to students of Arabic in a way never previously available. While Arabic literature provides a vast body of texts as a window into diverse cultures and eras, the lack of useful teaching material has often forced teachers to spend much of their time creating supplemental material, rather than focusing on the exploration of literary art and themes. This study will walk Arabic students through the unabridged novel in manageable lessons, supported with robust comprehension, interpretation, and analytical exercises, focusing on the historical context, elements of literature, and social themes. This book is organized to mirror the way an experienced teacher of Arabic literature would structure the lessons, and is thus perfectly suited as a textbook for an advanced Arabic or Arabic literature class, or as an independent study package for learners.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781617971310
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, The
Publication date: 11/22/2022
Series: Great Works of Arabic Literature: Guided Texts for Arabic Learners
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,002,133
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Language: Arabic

About the Author

David DiMeo is an associate professor and director of the Arabic program at Western Kentucky Universityand has taught Arabic for over twenty years. He holds a PhD from Harvard Universityand an MA from Princeton University. He is the author of Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s and co-author of The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader (both AUC Press, 2016), and hosts the podcast The Golden Age of Islam.
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