WRITER

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

1926 - 2023

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Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Arabic: سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي; 16 April 1925 – 20 April 2023) was a Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salma Khadra Jayyusi has received more than 37,370 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Salma Khadra Jayyusi is the 5,111th most popular writer, the 291st most popular biography from Israel and the 18th most popular Israeli Writer.

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Notable Works

Modern Arabic Poetry
Arabic poetry, Translations into English, English poetry
The city in the Islamic World
Social life and customs, Islamic cities and towns, History
"The purpose of this book, is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the Islamic world, this one has been specially expanded not only to include snapshots of historical fabric but also to deal with the transformation of this fabric into modern and contemporary urban entities."--Book cover.
The Literature of Modern Arabia
Anthologie, English literature, Translations from Arabic
Anthology of modern Palestinian literature
Translations into English, Arabic literature, Middle eastern literature
Modern Arabic drama
Translations into English, Arabic drama
Modern Arabic Fiction
Arabic fiction, Roman arabe, LITERARY CRITICISM
"This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The collection reflects Arab writers' formal inventiveness as well as their intense exploration of various dimensions of modern Arab life, including the impact of modernity, the rise of the oil economy, political authoritarianism, corruption, religion, poverty, and the Palestinian diaspora." "Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned scholar of Arabic literature, has included short stories and excerpts from novels from authors in every Arab country. Modern Arabic Fiction contains writings stretching from the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors to the novels of Naguib Mahfouz and the stories of contemporary Arab writers. In addition to familiar names such as Mahfouz, the anthology presents excerpts from writers well known in the Arab world but just beginning to find an audience in the West, including early-twentieth-century writer Jurji Zaydan, whose historical epics influenced the moral attitudes of several generations of Arab readers; Yusuf Idris's complex and brilliant portraits of Egypt's poor; 'Abd al-Rahman Munif's searing exploration of the ecological and social impact of oil production; and Palestinian writer Ibrahim Nasrallah's bold postmodern examination of alienation in contemporary Arab life." "Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists."--BOOK JACKET

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 5,111 out of 7,302Before her are Heinrich Zschokke, Kjartan Fløgstad, Kiki Dimoula, Alan Dean Foster, Rafael Cadenas, and György Faludy. After her are Jack Finney, Takeshi Shudo, Anton Buttigieg, Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Stanislav Stratiev, and Jonathan Stroud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 368Before her are Robert Jay Lifton, José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Andrea Kékesy, Metaksia Simonyan, Pedro Dellacha, and Ray McAnally. After her are Herschell Gordon Lewis, Giovanni Viola, Alfonso Sastre, David Tudor, Fred Ramdat Misier, and Rino Ferrario. Among people deceased in 2023, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 455Before her are Gayle Hunnicutt, Anna Kanakis, Mikio Aoki, Phyllis Coates, Agustí Villaronga, and Denys Monastyrsky. After her are Yaakov Ziv, Ama Ata Aidoo, Stéphane Demol, Richard Murphy, Martin Davis, and Kusuma Wardhani.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 291 out of 466Before her are Yardena Arazi (1951), Eli Cohen (1972), Menachem Bello (1947), Shlomo Artzi (1949), Uri Ariel (1952), and Moshe Castel (1909). After her are Yaakov Ziv (1931), Merav Michaeli (1966), Leigh Bardugo (1975), Yuval Steinitz (1958), Yariv Levin (1969), and Ishtar (1968).

Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Salma Khadra Jayyusi ranks 18Before her are Gideon Levy (1953), Etgar Keret (1967), Emile Habibi (1922), Amira Hass (1956), Zeruya Shalev (1959), and Tony Cliff (1917). After her are Leigh Bardugo (1975), Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936), Yehoshua Kenaz (1937), Rami Saari (1963), Nadav Lapid (1975), and Sayed Kashua (1975).