Baghdad: Biography of a City.
(بغداد سيرة مدينة)

Name: Baghdad: Biography of a City.
Author: Wally, star.

Title	Baghdad: Biography of a City.
Title Original	بغداد سيرة مدينة
Author	Wally, star.
Author Original	والي نجم
Publication Date:	2020
Publication Place	Beirut - Dar Al-Saqi
Subject	Baghdad (Iraq) -- History, Baghdad (Iraq) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century, Baghdad (Iraq) -- Biography, Wālī, Najm, Nonfiction, History
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	377
Library:	Wesleyan University Library
Library Asset ID	ISBN : 9786140300071, ISBN : 614030007X, OCLC : (OCoLC)1291164978, ISBN : 614-425-808-6
Record ID	alma9932805886903768
Library Location	See online access
Date	2020
Notes	Title from eBook information screen.., Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Sample Text	• Intro • 1. The other star • 2. Heading towards Baghdad in a Chevrolet car • 3. A strange city in a strange place • 4. Postcards or greetings • 5. A city between the wardrobe and the sleeping pillow • 6. Postcard history • 7. British soldiers and Baghdad scouts • 8. Black and white photos • 9. Is this then Baghdad? • 10. First entry to Al-Rashid Street • 11. Abbas Baghdadi, Baghdad Encyclopedia • 12. I am following in the footsteps of Columbus • 13. Reaching Baghdad through its newspapers • 14. A monument to glorify suicide • 15. The city through the eyes of Scheherazade, “One Thousand and One Nights” and the invention of a city through storytelling • 16. The House of Wisdom is all that remains of the laboratory for pumping ideas • 17. When the city is within reach • 18. A stranger in a strange city and a university student that I am • 19. Mobile living spaces • 20. The private room and the happiness of writing and friendships • 21. Literature Park between the Freedom Monument by Jawad Selim and the Peace Mural by Faiq Hassan • 22. The temptation of first love between the English cemetery and the train of pleasures going to the museum square • 23. Cafés that have entered history • 24. Places of rebellion, from the Hinchak and the Armenian Kidor to the Iraqi nomad and the youth of Parliament • 25. Religion, the rich and their palaces... and a night of love in one of those palaces • 26. Three writers remained in Baghdad all their lives • 27. John Dos Passos What is important is the road to Baghdad • 28. Annemarie Schwarzenbach Journeys between Opium and... Baghdad • 29. Max Fresh: When the city is a substitute for women • 30. Baghdad, poets, and images from Abu Nawas and Ibn Zuraiq al-Baghdadi to Saadi Yusuf • 31. Brunette and unique • 32. City shifts, living in sadness and needing sleep • 33. A time to live and a time to die • 34. Inventing the city anew • Thanks and appreciation • About the book.
Baskı	1st ed.
Tür	Biography

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Wesleyan University Library

Baghdad: Biography of a City.

(بغداد سيرة مدينة)

Author Wally, star.

Author Original والي نجم

Publication Date 2020

Publication Place Beirut - Dar Al-Saqi

Subject Baghdad (Iraq) -- History, Baghdad (Iraq) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century, Baghdad (Iraq) -- Biography, Wālī, Najm, Nonfiction, History

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 377

Library Wesleyan University Library

Library Asset ID ISBN : 9786140300071, ISBN : 614030007X, OCLC : (OCoLC)1291164978, ISBN : 614-425-808-6

Record ID alma9932805886903768

Library Location See online access

Date 2020

Notes Title from eBook information screen.., Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.

Sample Text • Intro • 1. The other star • 2. Heading towards Baghdad in a Chevrolet car • 3. A strange city in a strange place • 4. Postcards or greetings • 5. A city between the wardrobe and the sleeping pillow • 6. Postcard history • 7. British soldiers and Baghdad scouts • 8. Black and white photos • 9. Is this then Baghdad? • 10. First entry to Al-Rashid Street • 11. Abbas Baghdadi, Baghdad Encyclopedia • 12. I am following in the footsteps of Columbus • 13. Reaching Baghdad through its newspapers • 14. A monument to glorify suicide • 15. The city through the eyes of Scheherazade, “One Thousand and One Nights” and the invention of a city through storytelling • 16. The House of Wisdom is all that remains of the laboratory for pumping ideas • 17. When the city is within reach • 18. A stranger in a strange city and a university student that I am • 19. Mobile living spaces • 20. The private room and the happiness of writing and friendships • 21. Literature Park between the Freedom Monument by Jawad Selim and the Peace Mural by Faiq Hassan • 22. The temptation of first love between the English cemetery and the train of pleasures going to the museum square • 23. Cafés that have entered history • 24. Places of rebellion, from the Hinchak and the Armenian Kidor to the Iraqi nomad and the youth of Parliament • 25. Religion, the rich and their palaces... and a night of love in one of those palaces • 26. Three writers remained in Baghdad all their lives • 27. John Dos Passos What is important is the road to Baghdad • 28. Annemarie Schwarzenbach Journeys between Opium and... Baghdad • 29. Max Fresh: When the city is a substitute for women • 30. Baghdad, poets, and images from Abu Nawas and Ibn Zuraiq al-Baghdadi to Saadi Yusuf • 31. Brunette and unique • 32. City shifts, living in sadness and needing sleep • 33. A time to live and a time to die • 34. Inventing the city anew • Thanks and appreciation • About the book.

Baskı 1st ed.

Tür Biography