Memories of Our Future

the long version

"As a poet, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time, The New Republic, and Middle East Report, as well as for such literary journals as Grand Street, Conjunctions, and Paper Air. In Memories of Our Future, the unique intellectual and political path forged by Alcalay over the past fifteen years has now been colelcted into one volume. In a mix of personal narrative, political commentary, and literary criticism, Alcalay surveys diverse subjects, among them medeterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Inraeli/Palestinian conflict, and the war in Bosnia."--BOOK JACKET.