The Desert at Dusk

This poetry by a prominent Tunisian writer is, in part, an exile's nostalgic evocation of his birthplace and childhood. In both form and content it suggests the Arabic of pre-Islamic poetry. It is a re-imagining of a particular form-the ancient odes to the desert. Along with this it is something very new: imagery, muscular and bright, that indicts radical, violent Islamists. Their perversion of Islam is reflected in the image of a sullied and suffering desert-the desert at dusk. Bilingual French-English edition.

• | Author: Tahar Bekri
• | Publisher: Contra Mundum Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00132 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1940625785
• | ISBN-13: 9781940625782