| Emile Habiby
Legal name: إميل حبيبي
Transliterated name: Habiby, Emile
Birth place: Haifa, Palestine
Birth date: 28 January 1922
Death date: 2 May 1996
Language: Arabic
Bibliographic comments:
Biographic comments:
Novels
The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-fated Pessoptimist
1974
Library edition: 1989 US edition
Readers International
ISBN 0-671-01678-4
Hardcover, xx+169 pages
no cover price
Notes:
• Introduction by Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
• Translated by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Trevor Le Gassick.
• Contains satirical science fictional elements involving contact with aliens.
إميل حبيبي
