{"product_id":"wail-of-the-arab-beggars-of-the-casbah-9781880684962","title":"Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsmaël Aït Djafer's \u003ci\u003eWail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah\u003c\/i\u003e is an underground classic on French oppression in Algeria. On October 20, 1949, in the city of Algiers, Khouni Ahmed, a tubercular beggar is walking along Rue Franklin Roosevelt. He hasn't eaten. He's holding his little daughter, Yasmina, 9, by the hand. A truck approaches. Suddenly, he pushes the child at the wheels. As she doesn't die, he pushes her a second time. Prosecuted two years later in criminal court, Ahmed is declared insane and committed to an asylum.\u003cp\u003eThis horrific event inspired the 22 year-old student Ismaël Aït Djafer to write this impassioned elegy for the girl as an outcry against the extreme conditions of poverty that could cause such a tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedicated to \"those who have never been hungry,\" \u003ci\u003eWail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah\u003c\/i\u003e was printed in a small pamphlet edition by the Democratic Union for a Free Algeria in 1951. Its circulation was largely local; but in 1954 Jean Paul Sartre published it in his Paris magazine, \u003ci\u003eLes Temps Modernes\u003c\/i\u003e; and in 1960, the year of Algerian independence from French colonial rule, it was published in book form by Pierre Jean Oswald Editions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curbstone Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043098558807,"sku":"9781880684962","price":16.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781880684962.jpg?v=1750956993","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wail-of-the-arab-beggars-of-the-casbah-9781880684962","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}