Leg over Leg ( Arabic : الساق على الساق , romanized : al-saaq ealaa al-saaq ) is a book by Ahmad Faris Shidyaq , considered one of the founders of modern Arabic literature . Detailing the life of 'the Fariyaq', the alter ego of the author, offering commentary on intellectual and social issues, it is described as "always edifying and often hilarious", "the finest, wildest, funniest and most surprising novel in Arabic", and "[an] unclassifiable book". It was originally published in 1855 in Arabic in Paris.
2-607: In 2014, NYU Press published an English translation by Humphrey T. Davies as part of the Library of Arabic Literature series. It was collected in four volumes in an Arabic-English bilingual edition and two volumes in a paperback English edition. The book was first published in Arabic 1855 in France. The author did not publish it in his homeland, Lebanon , likely because of the book's comments on religion. This article about an 1850s novel
4-703: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . New York University Press New York University Press (or NYU Press ) is a university press that is part of New York University . NYU Press was founded in 1916 by the then chancellor of NYU, Elmer Ellsworth Brown . Once best known for publishing The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman , NYU Press has now published numerous award-winning scholarly works, such as Convergence Culture (2007) by Henry Jenkins , The Rabbi's Wife (2006) by Shuly Schwartz , and The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During
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