Hayat Publishing has acquired the Arabic rights to Nostalgia by Antto Vihma.
Readers of Arabic are in for a treat: Nostalgia by Antto Vihma will be published in Arabic by Hayat Publishing, marking the first foreign language territory for this title.
In Nostalgia Vihma, research professor and columnist, explores why hundreds of millions of people in Western countries believe life was better fifty years ago, and national politics increasingly look to a recent or distant past that never existed. He calls this phenomenon a “global nostalgia epidemic” and dives into why nostalgia has become not only a core sentiment in our societies but also an unpredictable political force. Nostalgia received the State Award for Public Information, one of the most important accolades for nonfiction in Finland, in 2022. In Finland Nostalgia is published by Teos.
Antto Vihma (b. 1978) works as a research professor at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He is widely published in international scientific journals, including International Affairs, Geopolitics, and Contributions to the History of Concepts. Vihma co-authored the highly praised nonfiction piece Post-Truth: Media Survival Strategies in the Age of Bullshit and Algorithms (2018). He is also a columnist for the weekly magazine Suomen Kuvalehti.
Hayat Publishing is an independent publisher based in Jeddah specialising in translated literature, anthropology, social sciences, and psychology.
Warm congratulations to the author and the publisher!