Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah by Ismael Ait Djafer
Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah

Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah


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Ismaël Aït Djafer's Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah 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. This 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.

Dedicated to "those who have never been hungry," Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah 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, Les Temps Modernes; and in 1960, the year of Algerian independence from French colonial rule, it was published in book form by Pierre Jean Oswald Editions.This bilingual edition, translated by Jack Hirschman, was published in 2004.


About the Author:

Ismaël Aït Djafer was born in 1929 in the Casbah of Algiers. At 17 he was already writing and drawing for newspapers and magazines. He spent various periods of his life in exile in France, Germany and Sweden. After the overthrow of Ben Bella in 1965, Djafer went into permanent exile in Paris, where he died in 1995.

Jack Hirschman was born in New York City in 1933 and has lived since 1973 in San Francisco. He has published more than 25 translations of poetry from eight languages. Among his many volumes of poetry are Lyripol, The Bottom Line, Front Lines and Endless Threshold.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781880684962
  • Publisher: Curbstone Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Curbstone Press
  • Depth: 6
  • Height: 212 mm
  • No of Pages: 63
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 168 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1880684969
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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