Homesickness

Al-Jahiz's "Longing for Homeland" is a short, eloquent literary masterpiece that recounts the most delicate feelings Arabs held for their homelands, the land where they were born, loved, and to which they were emotionally and spiritually attached. From stories of Bedouins whose hearts yearned for the sweltering desert heat and expanses, to portraits of kings for whom travel and palaces could not r...