Old Arabic Sayings Similes and Metaphors: Min Aqwal Al-Arab Wa-Tashbihatihim Alb-Sadabiyah

by Saad Elkhadem

Arabic (translation)
Original English

58 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Saad Elkhadem (1932-2003) was born in Cairo, Egypt, where he grew up and received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He earned his doctorate in Graz, Austria, and then worked for the government in both Egypt and Switzerland for a short while before teaching at the University of North Dakota. In 1968, he was hired as an associate professor in the Department of German at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) where he taught German and comparative literature. He spent the rest of his career there, attaining Professor Emeritus status in 1995.

Elkhadem produced more than twenty-three books, of which fourteen are fiction (some are banned in Egypt), and the rest are reference books. He also translated works from German and Arabic into English, including in some instances, some of his own, such as Ajnihah min Rasas/Wings of Lead (1971/1994) and Rijal wa Khandzir, Men and Pigs (1967/1977), much in the tradition of Brecht and Beckett, who were themselves writers/translators of their own writing. Moreover, Elkhadem was an editor and an eminent publisher

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