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Love and corruption, then and now: Osama Gharib’s ‘Hamam and Isabella’
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October 21, 2010
Love and corruption, then and now: Osama Gharib’s ‘Hamam and Isabella’
Dar al-Shorouk has just published the first edition of Hamam and Isabella: A Story of Love and Revenge... With Idiocy…
Article 212: Same old satire
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October 11, 2010
Article 212: Same old satire
Dar al-Shorouk has just published Al-Madda 212 Kettab (Article 212) by author Haitham H. Dabbour. The book is a hypothetical…
Living Sufism: A different Islam
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August 17, 2010
Living Sufism: A different Islam
In his latest book of photographs on his favorite topic, Nicolass Beigman unveils the details of the enchanting world of…
International book review digest: yoga, immortality, Dubai
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August 2, 2010
International book review digest: yoga, immortality, Dubai
The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America by Stefanie Syman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2010).
Trial By Ink : Little pieces of life
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August 2, 2010
Trial By Ink : Little pieces of life
Four years after publishing his acclaimed novel, Signposts to Elsewhere, author Yahia Lababidi is out with a new book, and…
Moqtanayat Wust el-Balad: Stories from Cairo’s downtown
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July 31, 2010
Moqtanayat Wust el-Balad: Stories from Cairo’s downtown
Two weeks ago, the novelist Mekkawi Said published his latest book, a collection of short stories called Moqtanayat Wust el-Balad…
Reem Bassiouny: on love and pistachios
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July 20, 2010
Reem Bassiouny: on love and pistachios
After graduating from Alexandria University with a degree in English Literature, novelist and professor of sociolinguistics Reem Bassiouney completed her…
A tale of an old man
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July 10, 2010
A tale of an old man
The latest collection of short stories by Tareq Imam, A Tale of an Old Man who dies in the cities…
International book digest
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July 7, 2010
International book digest
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives by Gilbert Achcar (Metropolitan, 2010)