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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Sleepless Eye
    sub title: Aphorisms from the Sahara
  name:
    name part: Kūnī, Ibrāhīm.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Fähndrich, Hartmut
    role:
      role term: compiler.
  name:
    name part: Allen, Roger
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : color illustrations.
  abstract: The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earth's elements. Al-Koni, an award-winning and critically acclaimed Arabic writer, reflects on this fragile environment and the increasing threats to its existence in A Sleepless Eye, a collection of the poet's desert wisdom. He highlights the relationships between humans and Libya's natural features, grouping them by theme: nature, desert, water, sea, wind, rock, trees, and fire. Each theme contains a set of aphorisms that deliver thoughtful perspectives on what it means to coexist with an evolving planet. This volume is the result of the author's collaboration with the celebrated French nature photographer, Alain Sebe, and English translator Allen. The product is a body of work that calls upon readers to question their relationship with the earth through meditative ideas and photos, familiarizing English readers with the fundamental philosophies of environmental stewardship that transcend all boundaries.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Nature -- Seasons -- Desert -- Water -- Sea -- Sea and desert -- Wind -- Rock -- Trees and flowers -- Fire -- Afterword -- Sources -- List of photographs.
  note: Ibrahim al-Koni ; selected by Hartmut Fähndrich ; translated from the Arabic by Roger Allen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: fd-----
  subject:
    topic: Desert people
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Sahara
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / African
  classification: PJ7842.U54 S64 2014eb
  classification: 892.736
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sleepless Eye
    name:
      name part: Kūnī, Ibrāhīm.
    identifier: (OCoLC)863195047
  identifier: 9780815610342
  identifier: 0815610343
  identifier: 9780815652793 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0815652798 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 140520
    record change date: 20191218104053.0
    record identifier: in00003463224
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng