Beyond Love

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Beyond Love With a Foreword by miriam cooke hadiya hussein Translated from the Arabic by Ikram Masmoudi Syracuse University Press English translation copyright © 2012 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2012 12 13 14 15 16 17 6 5 4 3 2 1 Originally published in Arabic as Ma Ba’d Al-Hub (Beirut: Arab Institution for Studies and Publication, 2004). ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, dialogues, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-0995-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Husayn, Hadiyah. [Ma Ba’d Al-Hub. English] Beyond love / Hadiya Hussein ; translated from the Arabic by Ikram Masmoudi ; with a foreword by Miriam Cooke. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Middle East literature in translation) ISBN 978-0-8156-0995-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Masmoudi, Ikram. II. Title. PJ7932.U77M313 2012 892.7'37—dc23 2012016056 Manufactured in the United States of America Hadiya Hussein is an Iraqi writer who has published many novels and short stories. She currently lives in Amman, Jordan. Beyond Love is her first novel to be translated into English. Ikram Masmoudi was educated in Tunisia and France, where she got her PhD from the Université Stendhal Grenoble III in textual linguistics. In 2001 she obtained the Agrégation d’arabe and taught Arabic language and culture at the Universit é de Provence. She has extensive teaching experience. She has taught courses of all levels of Arabic and courses on modern Arabic literature at Middlebury College, Duke University, and Princeton University. In the fall of 2008 she joined the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware, where she chairs the Arabic Program and codirects the UD Winter Study Abroad Program in Tunisia. Her research interests are in language and literature, and she is currently working on a book about Iraqi war fiction. ...