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Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of the Fariyaq, alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England, and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women s rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures, all the while celebrating the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language. Volumes One and Two follow the hapless Fariyaq through his youth and early education, his misadventures among the monks of Mount Lebanon, his flight to the Egypt of Muhammad 'Ali, and his subsequent employment with the first Arabic daily newspaper during which time he suffers a number of diseases that parallel his progress in the sciences of Arabic gram

Who reads Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two?

Author

Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq

Publisher

Library of Arabic Literature

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction