Description

Burning in the Past Tense (Binlingual Book : English & Arabic + CD in Arabic )

طَبْز وتشعيل مقام كنّا

By Suhail Shadoud

A bilingual collection of poetic narratives on contemporary Syria and the US.

"Sharp language like the guillotine of exile, and with infinite meanings." Ali Al-Raee, Tishreen (Syria)

"Shadoud's book has to be read the way archeologists look for antiquities. The pieces of mysterious and disparate boards need to be gathered and reassembled seeking for the original text." Ali Al-Azir, Al-Balad (Lebanon)

"This kind of writing is closer to a visual dialogue, that is based on movement rather than on words." Maher Sharaf Eddine, Annahar (Lebanon)

"… In it we discover the sources of prose and the lingering shadows of poetic stories. He reinterprets the tales of people thrown in the vast museum of life, with its mountains, lands, alleys, and houses of mud and decaying concrete." Akram Alkatreb, Al-Mustaqbal (Lebanon)

About the Author

Suhail Shadoud was born in Syria. He is the author of the bilingual book entitled Burning in the Past Tense He has worked as a translator and editor at various institutions, including MERIP, Rua'a Mughayira (Alternative Views); Cairo. He has taught Arabic at Georgetown University, the Middle East Institute and The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Suhail is a graduate of the schools of dental medicine from the University of Damascus and New York University. He currently resides in New York City where he practices medicine and teaches in the Middle Eastern Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Columbia University.

Language(s): Arabic and English
ISBN: 9953005419
Book is Accompanied by a CD, 2005, Paperback, 152 pages (50:50 Arabic/English), 8.25" x 5.5"

Publisher: Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Society for the Plastic Arts