Ursula Lindsey
Drumbeat: Tales from the Gulf’s back end
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March 25, 2010
Drumbeat: Tales from the Gulf’s back end
There are over a quarter of a million Egyptian immigrants working in the United Arab Emirates today--or rather, that is…
Abu Golayyel: Wrestling with identity
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February 23, 2010
Abu Golayyel: Wrestling with identity
Novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel hails from a Bedouin village in the Fayoum area of Middle Egypt. His ancestors settled there…
Crossing the language divide
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February 11, 2010
Crossing the language divide
What first drew him to the translation profession, says Humphrey Davies, was the fact that it was “a way of…
Joe Sacco’s ‘Footnotes in Gaza’
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February 3, 2010
Joe Sacco’s ‘Footnotes in Gaza’
American cartoonist Joe Sacco has more or less invented a new category of reporting: graphic journalism--"graphic" in both senses of…