A City’s Biography

Name: A City's Biography
SKU: 24496
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Author: Abdul Rahman Munif

Original price was: 9,00 د.ا.Current price is: 8,50 د.ا.

This literary work revives the features of an old Arab city through memory, revealing the transformations of its social and economic life in an intimate style that blends narrative and reflection.

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Categories: Arabic literature, Literary texts, Biography and memoirs, Sociology Tags: Culture, Feelings, history, Literature

Description

In this edition of A City’s Biography, we find some of the drawings and sketches by Abdul Rahman Munif, depicting the characters of “A City’s Biography” as he imagined and drew them on paper.

In this beautiful work, which revolves around Amman in the 1940s, the narrative is intertwined with the body and expression, evoking the characters as they were preserved in memory—how they lived and what their relationships were like—as well as being brought to life through drawing on paper. Here are Arif al-Farran, al-Qartabawi, Sheikh Salim, Sheikh Zaki, Umm Ali al-Sharshouha, al-Jum’an, and Umm Mitri… all brought to life through the fusion of memory and drawing.

Abdul Rahman Munif takes us back to Amman in the 1940s, presenting an important document of the city and its people, a document that shaped the destiny of two generations and became a pivotal point in a tragic chapter of our troubled history from the 1940s to the present day.