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A Sleepless Eye: Aphorisms from the Sahara

A Sleepless Eye: Aphorisms from the Sahara

Al-Koni, Ibrahim
Allen, Roger

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Series: Middle East Literature in Translation

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ISBN10: 0815610343
ISBN13: 9780815610342
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: May 27 2014
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.27 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earth's elements. Al-Koni, an award-winning and critically acclaimed Arabic writer, reflects on this fragile environment and the increasing threats to its existence in A Sleepless Eye, a collection of the poet's desert wisdom. He highlights the relationships between humans and Libya's natural features, grouping them by theme: nature, desert, water, sea, wind, rock, trees, and fire. Each theme contains a set of aphorisms that deliver thoughtful perspectives on what it means to coexist with an evolving planet.

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