An Impossible Friendship

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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is a professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the American University of Beirut. She is the author of Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art (2012), as well as coeditor of The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual (2021), Rafa Nasiri: Artist Books (2016), and Archives, Museums, and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (2012).

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In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends came together across religious lines in a fleeting moment of possibility within a troubled history. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi tells the story of this unlikely friendship and in so doing offers an intimate cultural and social history of Palestine in the postwar period.

Contenu
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Prologue: The King David Hotel Bombing, Jerusalem, July 22, 1946
Introduction: Reading an Impossible Friendship Through a Group Portrait
Part I: The Time Before 1948

1. Changing Jerusalem: A New Panorama of the Holy City
2. Walid Khalidi: A Jerusalemite in the Byronic Tradition
3. Rasha Salam Khalidi: A Non-Conformist Moslem Arab Woman
4. Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Belated Surrealist and Exclusive Geheimtyp
5. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: Spark-Plug of the YMCA Arts Club
   Part II: The Time Beyond
6. Border Crossing
7. Public Engagement in Worlds Apart
   Epilogue: Late Correspondence
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index