Creator Bio
Abraham Daninos
1797–1872
Abraham Daninos, a Sephardic Jew native to Algiers, was a pioneer of modern Arabic drama. His works fused European and Arabic dramatic styles, and were written in a mixture of colloquial and literary Arabic. In addition to writing plays, Daninos was a translator for the Civil Court of Justice in Algiers, and when the French arrived in 1830, he acted as a guide and translator. For this service he was awarded the order of Chevalier in the Legion d’honneur.
Content by Abraham Daninos
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The Pleasure Trip of Sweethearts Reunited after the Agonies of Love Unrequited in the City of Tiryaq in Iraq
An Explanation of the Plot of this BookNaʿma is the daughter of a caïd of one of the regions in Iraq, and Nuʿman is her paternal first cousin, whom she married while her father was still alive. When…