Elias Khoury, Awlad el-Ghetto: Esmi Adam [Children of the Ghetto-My Name Is Adam]

Farah Aridi (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Rita Sakr, Maynooth University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.3: Middle-Eastern Arabic Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary.
Vol. editors: Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

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First circulation or publication 2016

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Lebanon (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

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Awlad al Ghetto

is Elias Khoury’s most recent work, composed of three volumes. The first volume appeared in Arabic in 2016 under the title

Awlad al Ghetto: Ismi Adam

and it was translated two years later by Humphrey Davies as

The Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam

. The second volume was published in 2018 under the title

Awlad al Ghetto: Nijmat al Baher

, or The Children of the Ghetto: The Star of the Sea, and is currently being translated into English, French, and Hebrew. The third and final volume of the trilogy is currently in process of being written. The three volumes are an amalgam of voices and stories from the Palestinian Catastrophe (

nakba

) of 1948, gathered, narrated, and written by the main protagonist, Adam, survivor of the Lydda (

al-Lidd

) massacre and a former…

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Citation: Aridi, Farah. "Awlad el-Ghetto: Esmi Adam". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 June 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38912, accessed 24 November 2024.]

Elias Khoury, Awlad el-Ghetto: Esmi Adam [Children of the Ghetto-My Name Is Adam]

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