The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist

The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist Emile Habiby
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated

The title borrows from the tragi-comical sagas of 'Saeed', the anti-hero in Emile Habiby's 1974 novel 'The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist', and morespecifically, his incredible chapter headings. The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist by Palestinian Emile Habibi 7. The Secret Life of Saeed- the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist: A Palestinian Who Became a Citizen of Israel. The Desolate Time by Syrian author Haidar Haidar 8. Recommended: Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima. Rama and the Dragon by the Egyptian Edward al Kharrat 9. The Secret Life of Saeed (The Pessoptimist) by Emile Habiby 8. With everyone paying more attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the wake of recent events, Habiby's novel about a Palestinian man, Saeed, who remains in. Saeed, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist. The poem alludes also to another late 1948 Palestinian writer, Emile Habibi, whose famous 1974 novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist examines the condition of being a Palestinian who remained in Israel. Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell 9. Emile Habiby: The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist. I'm pleased to see that Arabia Books have just re-issued Emile Habiby's The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist and have a page on it here. Just a quick note on the novel before wrapping up my thoughts and takes on the class and its broader questions. "The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist (Imil Habibi, 1974; translated 1982) The full title is much longer. Last thought on the Secret Life of Saeed, the Pessoptimist. 5.Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif 6. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany 7.