Kutubna Cultural Center
The Secret Life of Saeed
The Secret Life of Saeed
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This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. An informer for the Zionist state, his stupidity, candor, and cowardice make him more of a victim than a villain; but in a series of tragicomic episodes, he is gradually transformed from a disaster-haunted, gullible collaborator into a Palestinian -- no hero still, but a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness.
Emile Shukri Habibi was a Palestinian writer of Arabic literature and a politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the communist parties Maki and Rakah.
Location: Lower level C-1
