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The book comprises a number of verse or prose pieces, which the author wrote while in Tayyibah, Jerusalem, Toronto, Philadelphia, and New York between the 1960s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. Nature, human relations, and dialogue between the self and the exterior environment are the themes of these pieces.
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Taysir N. Nashif
The author was born in Tayyibah, near Jerusalem. He has BA and MA degrees in political science and Arabic and a PhD degree in political science from the SUNY at Binghamton. Between 1982 and 2002, he served as an editor and later as a chief, Arabic Reporting Section, UN. He also served as an assistant professor at the University of Oran, Algeria, and Temple University, Pennsylvania. A number of his books and articles, dealing with sociopolitical change, have been published in the US and Southwest Asia.
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