Salma Khadra Jayyusi

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Salma Khadra Jayyusi is a poet, critic, literary historian, and anthologist. She is the founder and director of PROTA, the Project for the Translation of Arabic Literature.

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Books by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Abu Jmeel's Daughter & Other Stories

Arab Folk Tales from Palestine and Lebanon

By Jamal Sleem Nuweihed and Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Translated by Christopher Tingley

A superb collection of Arab folk tales.

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My Jerusalem

Essays, Reminiscences, and Poems

By Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Zafar Ishaq Ansari

Here is a passionate and eclectic collection of essays, poems, and scholarship that brings to life Jerusalem, that most enigmatic and compelling of cities, in its embattled, contemporary guise as well as in its ancient history. The book begins in the immediacy of today’s Jerusalem—with its dispos...

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