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About the author Peter Clark has had wide experience of living, working and travelling in the Middle East over the past fifty years. He is a writer – his books include Marmaduke Pickthall British Muslim, which was published in the 1980s and more recently Istanbul in the series Cities of the Imagination and Emerging Arab Voices One. His latest book, Coffeehouse Footnotes, was designed and produced by Self Publish Books and is available from the publishers Twopenny Press. Peter has also translated eight books from Arabic – history and fiction – including Grandfather’s Tale and Sabriya by Ulfat Idilbi, published by Quartet Books. |
He is a cultural consultant, a trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and a contributing editor of Banipal, the magazine of modern Arab literature. Peter also writes obituaries for The Guardian and book reviews for the TLS and Asian Affairs. Over the years, he has collected a PhD and an OBE. He is married, is a proud grandfather and is based in Frome in Somerset. Contact information |
About the book
In the Middle East the trivial can often cast light on issues that may preoccupy the headlines. There were people – often Arab writers – whose lives and work were of significance, and should be known beyond their particular artistic and professional circles. All this part-time writing has occupied a territory between journalism and scholarship. Coffeehouse Footnotes helps shed light on these aspects of the Middle East.
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