Posts Tagged with ‘Fiction:Arabic’
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The Mehlis Report – A Novel of Beirut
11 Apr 2014Since 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 2012Syria 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 2012Abdelrahman 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 2011Hisham 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 2011I 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 2011I’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 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 Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli: A Novel from Iraq
17 Apr 2011The 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 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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More Arabic Fiction in Translation
01 Feb 2011As 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 2011Once again, convulsions in distant places are teaching us geography. It is also a good time to learn about the…
