Muna Imady
Auteur van Syrian Folktales
Werken van Muna Imady
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Imady, Muna
- Geboortedatum
- 1962-02-18
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
Syria - Geboorteplaats
- Damascus, Syria
- Woonplaatsen
- Damascus, Syria
Paris, France
Grenoble, France - Opleiding
- BA English Litrature - Damascus University 1984
Sworn Translator Certificate - Minister of Justice Damascus 1986
Diploma in English-Arabic Translation Damascus University 1986
Maitrise - Section Anglais UNIVERSITE DE PARIS-SORBONNE (PARIS IV) France 1990 - Beroepen
- English Teacher
Author
Translator - Korte biografie
- Muna Imady was born in Damascus in 1962 to an American mother and a Syrian father. She has a BA in English Literature and a diploma in English-Arabic Translation from Damascus University as well as a Maitrise from the Sorbonne.
Imady has designed a beginners English reading course for children and has written several text books for teaching English as a second language to children. She has also written and translated many short Arabic stories for children which were published in several Arabic magazines.
She has been interested in folktales since she was a child and promised herself that one day she would write a book of the folktales she had collected.
Imady lives in Damascus with her husband Dr Nizar Zarka and her three children Nour, Sammy and Kareem. She teaches English as a second language to young children and continues to collect folktales in her free time.
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Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.Part folklore, part recipe book - Muna Imady relays stories told to her by her family, as well as traditional Syrian recipes. I liked the stories - mostly similar to western fairy tales, but with different views on witches and imps/devils/dybbuks - but found the inclusion of recipes to be a bit strange and out of place in a book of folklore. There were also editorial problems with the text that could have been avoided by a little proofreading. All in all, a nice little book of tales.
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.Nice collection will make fine addition to any library on folktales - sits right beside my other "country collections"
J'incite et j'invite ceux qui ont soif de culture et d'instructions, d'Histoire et d'histoires, de rêves et de réalité à se plonger au coeur de ce magnifique livre, au coeur de ce magnifique pays, afin de comprendre et d'affirmer par eux même le remarquable témoignage d'un éminent historien: «tout homme civilisé devrait avoir deux patries, la sienne et la Syrie ».
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It is a mixture of poetry and short essay type narratives. I found that it was a book you could dip in and out of, although I largely read it in one go. The poems are quite personal and gave me food for thought. I enjoyed them and will return to them again, I think, to gain different and deeper meaning. I was, in particular however, moved by the story of the author’s neighbour’s missing husband. He left for work one day and didn’t return. That story stayed with me and I really felt the terror and fear the neighbour must’ve felt. Muna Imady writes simply yet effectively, she clearly had much love for Damascus and this comes through in this book.
Well worth a read!… (meer)