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Dancing Arabs (1st Edition) by Sayed Kashua, Miriam Shlesinger (Translator), Sayed Qashu, Jack Kerouac, סייד קשוע Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-8021-4126-9 / 0802141269 ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4126-2 / 9780802141262 A bildungsroman suffused with humor and irony, Dancing Arabs centers on a young boy from a poor Arab village, his haphazard receipt of a scholarship to a Jewish boarding school, and the dislocation and alienation that ensues when he finds himself faced with the impossible: the imperative to straddle |