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The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist Emile Habiby
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated

The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, by Emile Habiby English translation, 1974, 192 pp. I don't differentiate between optimism and pessimism and am quite at a loss as to which of the two characterizes me. Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, trans. Imil Habibi —The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist (1974; trans. Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani. Arabic literature does not feature many novels, and of those, perhaps only this one is meant as a comedy. Rather dated, but unusual in that its heroes are revolutionary terrorists. Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Trevor Le Gassick (London: Arabia Books, 2010). How do you differentiate between a pessimist and an optimist? "[The secret life of Saeed, the ill-fated pessoptimist] was a novel written by the late Palestinian author Emile Habibi in 1974. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih. Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi. "The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist (Imil Habibi, 1974; translated 1982) The full title is much longer. Very different from the devious anarchist villains of (e.g.) Chesterton. Passage to Dusk by Rashid al-Daif.