Rula Jurdi is professor of Islamic history at McGill University. She is author of Bolshevik Fish, One Hundred Flutters, and Thick Air, as well as four poetry collections. She is a cofounder of Mïtra, an electronic magazine for art and literature. maia tabet is an Arabic-English literary translator. Her translations include Sinan Antoon’s The Baghdad Eucharist, Elias Khoury’s Little Mountain and White Masks, and Abdo Khal’s Throwing Sparks, which won the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

"A tour de force of storytelling made all the more engrossing by a fluid text that flows effortlessly across borders to speak of transnational lives that are simultaneously grounded in intensely intimate local moments captured by camera and narrator." —Akram Khater, director, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, North Carolina State University"Jurdi’s intelligent, expansive, and erudite style comes alive in maia tabet’s elegant English translation. Set in the Druze mountains of Lebanon, Camera Obscura explores the intricate details of life in these communities and also beyond them. Photography offers the frame for this novel’s meaningful intervention into politics, history, and family belonging in turbulent, changing times." —Michelle Hartman, coeditor of Women’s War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women’s Labor, and the Creative Arts

Rula Jurdi is professor of Islamic history at McGill University. She is author of Bolshevik Fish, One Hundred Flutters, and Thick Air, as well as four poetry collections. She is a cofounder of Mïtra, an electronic magazine for art and literature. maia tabet is an Arabic-English literary translator. Her translations include Sinan Antoon’s The Baghdad Eucharist, Elias Khoury’s Little Mountain and White Masks, and Abdo Khal’s Throwing Sparks, which won the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

"A tour de force of storytelling made all the more engrossing by a fluid text that flows effortlessly across borders to speak of transnational lives that are simultaneously grounded in intensely intimate local moments captured by camera and narrator." —Akram Khater, director, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, North Carolina State University"Jurdi’s intelligent, expansive, and erudite style comes alive in maia tabet’s elegant English translation. Set in the Druze mountains of Lebanon, Camera Obscura explores the intricate details of life in these communities and also beyond them. Photography offers the frame for this novel’s meaningful intervention into politics, history, and family belonging in turbulent, changing times." —Michelle Hartman, coeditor of Women’s War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women’s Labor, and the Creative Arts

Rula Jurdi is professor of Islamic history at McGill University. She is author of Bolshevik Fish, One Hundred Flutters, and Thick Air, as well as four poetry collections. She is a cofounder of Mïtra, an electronic magazine for art and literature. maia tabet is an Arabic-English literary translator. Her translations include Sinan Antoon’s The Baghdad Eucharist, Elias Khoury’s Little Mountain and White Masks, and Abdo Khal’s Throwing Sparks, which won the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

"A tour de force of storytelling made all the more engrossing by a fluid text that flows effortlessly across borders to speak of transnational lives that are simultaneously grounded in intensely intimate local moments captured by camera and narrator." —Akram Khater, director, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, North Carolina State University"Jurdi’s intelligent, expansive, and erudite style comes alive in maia tabet’s elegant English translation. Set in the Druze mountains of Lebanon, Camera Obscura explores the intricate details of life in these communities and also beyond them. Photography offers the frame for this novel’s meaningful intervention into politics, history, and family belonging in turbulent, changing times." —Michelle Hartman, coeditor of Women’s War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women’s Labor, and the Creative Arts