Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine Aqida by Malcolm Gladwell

by Malcolm Gladwell

was a Morris finalist

Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian

Al-Ghazālī explains the ḥadīth “Purification is half of faith

Paperback: 336 pages

Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine Aqida by Malcolm GladwellA Palestinian Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in depth study of the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the literature