Posts Tagged with ‘Literature:Arabic’
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Cities Of Salt: Wadi No More
24 Jul 2012Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does…
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Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation
13 Sep 2011I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid…
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The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
09 Jun 2011Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25…
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Saqi Books: History, Fiction and Food from the Middle World
31 May 2011I’ve come across a very lively publisher of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish translations to English, histories of the region, biographies,…
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In The Country of Men – Hisham Matar, Libya
10 May 2011The news from Libya this month is increasingly grim. It turns out it is extremely difficult merely to protect civilians.…
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Contemporary Iraqi Fiction
25 Apr 2011A book of contemporary writers from Iraq should be a welcome corrective to the bias our current notions of Iraq…
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The Last of the Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi, Iraq
29 Mar 2011Fadhil al-Azzawi’s 1992 The Last of the Angels while not a particularly long book (275 pages in the Free Press…
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Arabic Literature as Windows into the Hearts of the Struggle
23 Feb 2011I long ago proved to myself that reading everything in the world, was impossible. I couldn’t even get through the…
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Men In The Sun: Stories from Palestine
03 Nov 2010Men in the Sun is a slight volume of 7 short stories, the longest only 52 pages. Published in 1999…
