When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught Between East and West

by Fouad Ajami

Book Overview

From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the '50s and '60s--the story of a sensitive young man and budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity, East and West. As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of the Middle East, Fouad Ajami's sensibility was powerfully shaped by his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the '50s and '60s. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1637581750
• ISBN13: 9781637581759
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Bombardier Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"