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Posts Tagged with ‘Fiction:Arabic’

  • The Mehlis Report – A Novel of Beirut

    11 Apr 2014

    Since the world changed for Americans on Sept 11, 2001 I have made an effort to include fiction and history…

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  • Breaking Knees – Stories from Syria by Zakaria Tamer

    25 Aug 2012

    Syria is in the news, unhappily.  Citizens are fleeing the fighting and overwhelming the resources in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.…

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  • Cities of Salt: The Trench — The Pit in the Desert

    28 Jul 2012

    Abdelrahman Munif‘s trilogy,* Cities of Salt is one of those era-defining efforts of literary imagination and craft.  It has been called…

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  • Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar

    21 Sep 2011

    Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance,  easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men,…

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  • Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation

    13 Sep 2011

    I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid…

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  • Emerging Arab Voices: A Bilingual Reader

    23 Aug 2011

    I’ve been immersing myself in translated Arabic writing these past months, from novels, to movies, to short story and poetry…

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  • In The Country of Men – Hisham Matar, Libya

    10 May 2011

    The 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 2011

    A book of contemporary writers from Iraq should be a welcome corrective to the bias our current notions of Iraq…

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  • The Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli: A Novel from Iraq

    17 Apr 2011

    The ascension of Saddam Hussein to the peak of Iraqi power began in 1958 when a coup led by Brigadier…

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  • Arabic Literature as Windows into the Hearts of the Struggle

    23 Feb 2011

    I long ago proved to myself that reading everything in the world, was impossible. I couldn’t even get through the…

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  • More Arabic Fiction in Translation

    01 Feb 2011

    As a follow up to my earlier posting of Arabic authors in English translation, as grass-roots democracy boils across the…

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  • Egyptian, Tunisian, Lebanese and other Arabic Authors

    30 Jan 2011

    Once again, convulsions in distant places are teaching us geography.  It is also a good time to learn about the…

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