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		<title>Snow: A Novel from Turkey &#8211;  Orhan Pamuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snow in Turkey?  And for three days, non stop?  Who from the lands outside the greater Middle East would imagine it? And yet, Orhan Pamuk makes it so in his 2004 book, Snow, set in Kars, a small city in far NE Turkey. And, in fact, snow is not unusual in this high-plains city, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passage of Tears &#8211; a novel from Djibouti</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2012/01/06/passage-of-tears-a-novel-from-djibouti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti&#8217;s Devil&#8217;s Islands, a palimpsest of letters written to Walter Benjamin appearing through the notes a scribe is taking from &#8220;The Master,&#8221; a rageful twin brother who plans the death of his twin, devotion to the great African pianist and singer Abdulla [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/09/21/anatomy-of-a-disappearance-a-novel-by-hisham-matar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hisham Matar&#8217;s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance,  easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men, [reviewed here] and is lovelier in image and language, though less obviously of Libya, the country of his origins.  In both the memories which compromise the story are of  a young boy.  In both the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/09/13/5290/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid to young Arabic writers. A second novel by Libyan, Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance is reviewed by Robert Worth.  Matar&#8217;s first novel, In The Country of Men greatly impressed me [reviewed here] so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Arab Voices: A Bilingual Reader</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/08/23/emerging-arab-voices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been immersing myself in translated Arabic writing these past months, from novels, to movies, to short story and poetry collections. The latest is Emerging Arab Voices and is, in fact, a bi-lingual edition!  Not that I have the smallest hope of ever reading Arabic but it is interesting to see it on the page, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All This Belongs to Me:  A Novel of Mongolian Sisters; Or Is It?</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/08/04/all-this-belongs-to-me-a-novel-of-mongolian-sisters-or-is-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to take a break from the run of Arabic fiction I&#8217;ve been reading to catch up with a novel that won the National Translation Award last fall  at the annual American Literary Translators&#8217; [ALTA] convention &#8212; All This Belongs to Me.  Alex Zuker, the translator, read  some selections to a group of us; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saqi Books: History, Fiction and Food from the Middle World</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/05/31/saqi-books-history-fiction-and-food-from-the-middle-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 21:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come across a very lively publisher of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish translations to English, histories of the region, biographies, cookbooks [The Axis of Evil Cookbook!], with a strong emphasis on women, writers and written about.  Saqi Books has offices in San Francisco and London as well as Beirut. I&#8217;ve read Nawal el-Sadaawi&#8217;s Two Women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Map of Love &#8211; Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt &amp; England</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/05/14/the-map-of-love-ahdaf-soueif-egypt-england/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/05/14/the-map-of-love-ahdaf-soueif-egypt-england/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 01:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adhaf Soueif, of Egptian and British heritage and upbringing has set herself a formidable task in The Map of Love: to tell two cross-cultural love stories 100 years apart, both developing in our minds at the same time.  The older is being discovered through letters, journals and mementos from the early years of the 20th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The Country of Men &#8211; Hisham Matar, Libya</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/05/10/in-the-country-of-men-hisham-matar-libya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news from Libya this month is increasingly grim.  It turns out it is extremely difficult merely to protect civilians.  There is no magic shield that identifies civilians and encapsulates them away from the ravages of tyrants.  Instead, certain civilians have to be chosen, and their fighters along with them, and the battle joined &#8211;perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary Iraqi Fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.allinoneboat.org/2011/04/25/contemporary-iraqi-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A book of contemporary writers from Iraq should be a welcome corrective to the bias our current notions of Iraq have created for us. Certain grand categories would just about cover what we know: cradle of civilization, vicious dictator, religious sectarianism, Shiite fundamentalism, covered women, hot&#8230;   Another sentence or two would exhaust the knowledge [...]]]></description>
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