Dongola: A Novel of Nubia

by Peter Theroux and Idris Ali

Book Overview

The University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation, 1997

In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated, Awad Shalali, a Nubian worker in modern Egypt, dreams of Dongola--the capital of medieval Nubia, now lost to the flood waters of the Aswan High Dam. In Dongola, the Nubians reached their zenith. They defeated and dominated Upper Egypt, and their archers, deadly accurate in battle, were renowned as "the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557285322
• ISBN13: 9781557285324
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"