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The Mehlis Report – A Novel of Beirut

4/11/2014

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

8/25/2012

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

7/28/2012

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

9/21/2011

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

9/13/2011

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

8/23/2011

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

5/10/2011

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

4/25/2011

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

4/17/2011

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

2/23/2011

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

2/1/2011

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

1/30/2011

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

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