The Secret Life of Saeed-Emile Habiby Saeed is a Palestinian informant in Israel whose story is told in the form of letters to an unnamed correspondent after Saeed has escaped to outer space with the help of an extraterrestrial friend. He tries to gain favor by being the best informant, but his bad luck and dim wit guarantee his failure. As its subtitle implies, "The Secret Life of Saeed" blends optimism and pessimism, tragedy and comedy, horror and farce, cynicism and gullibility. A Palestinian in occupied territory, Saeed has lived through both wars ( and ); although he is an informer on the payroll of the Israeli government, he's too stupid to be of any real threat to his own people, but he is equally unable to protect his own family/5(25). Emile Habiby: فاء سعيد أبي النحس (The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist) On the whole, Arab writers do not do satire so this book, which is funny and satirical, is a treat. Our hero is Saeed. Saeed, in Arabic, means something like happy or fortunate. (Many of the names in this book have meanings, which may or may not be relevant.).
An edition of The secret life of Saeed (). by Imīl Ḥabībī, Emile Habiby, Trevor Le Gassick. Translated by Anton Shammas into Hebrew, The Secret Life of Saeed won Israel's foremost Prize for Literature; a stage version played to great name: Ali Tal I read Emile Habibi's novel Said Abi el-Nahs el-Mutashael years ago. Reading it a second time, I found the same depressed ideas which the book. Emile Habiby was one of Israel's best-known Arab journalists and writers. He has published several highly acclaimed novels and plays and his work has been translated into German, French, and Hebrew. Habiby died in Salma Khadra Jayyusi is one of the Arab world's most distinguished literary.
About The Book. This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. The Secret Life of Saeed-Emile Habiby Saeed is a Palestinian informant in Israel whose story is told in the form of letters to an unnamed correspondent after Saeed has escaped to outer space with the help of an extraterrestrial friend. He tries to gain favor by being the best informant, but his bad luck and dim wit guarantee his failure. Emile Habiby: فاء سعيد أبي النحس (The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist) On the whole, Arab writers do not do satire so this book, which is funny and satirical, is a treat. Our hero is Saeed. Saeed, in Arabic, means something like happy or fortunate. (Many of the names in this book have meanings, which may or may not be relevant.).
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