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In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat results to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, testimonies get started to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with common stories of the center East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, daddy of the Arab tribes; the beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps. Through Osama, we also go into the world of the modern Lebanese women and men whose stories notify a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly never-ending war, conflicted id, and survival. With The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century.
