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Description
Intended by Mohieddine Ellabbad as a way to explore different ways of seeing things through illustration, learn about how Arabic writing is an integral part of the image in the Arabic pictorial tradition. Reads right-to-left as the original Egyptian version, and includes all of the original Arabic calligraphy, with English translations in the margins.
Publication
Groundwood Books (2006), 36 pages
User reviews
LibraryThing member manich01
This book immediately demands its reader to consider a difference perspective, as it is intended to be read from right to left. Each page integrates a brief parable with beautiful, original collages of calligraphy and illustration, watercolors, engravings, post cards, and photographs. Read one a
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LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV
Gorgeous. Illuminating. I'm not an artist, but reading ME's thoughts and seeing the images he created to support them, I do feel more enlightened. Everybody should read it - those who are creative, those who aren't, children, adults, people who like fantasy, people who like memoirs, people who read
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Arabic, people who read English.... I 'read' this three times and now it's way overdue at the library. I can't wait to discuss it in the Children's Books group here on GR. Show Less
LibraryThing member RobertaLea
How incredibly interesting!
Awards
Middle East Book Award (Winner — 2006)
Children's Africana Book Award (Winner — Older Readers — 2007)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
36 p.; 9.75 inches
ISBN
0888997000 / 9780888997005