Children of the Waters

by Ibtihal Salim and Ibtihal Salem

Ibtihal Salem's writing provides an excellent forum for studying both everyday life in Egypt and current literary experimentation in the Middle East. Her poignant pieces hover between the structure of story-telling, the visuality of vignettes, and the compression of poetry. They both record and evoke a literary ferment going on in Egypt today.

Salem's writing of the last thirty years is lauded for its social messages also. Finding the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292777736
• ISBN13: 9780292777736
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.2"