Readers Club Selections: 2010
The Feminine Art
By: Weam Namou
This book was first published in English in 2005 by Hermiz Publishing. Set in America and the Middle East in the early 1990s, The Feminine Art is the story of Suham, a married woman who distracts herself from boredom by trying to find her nephew, Michael, a wife. The perfect brid...
The Quail's Journey
By: Sahar Tawfiq
Rehlet as-siman (The Quail's Journey), Sahar Tawfiq, Cairo: Merit, 2005. pp234 Egyptian fiction writer Sahar Tawfiq's books have been rather few and far between: having produced a novel and a collection of short stories in the early 1970s, it took her almost 20 years t...
The Architecture of Al Aqsa Mosque
By: Khaled Azab
كتاب “عمارة المسجد الأقصى” قام بجمعه وإعداده الدكتور خالد عزب بمناسبة الاحتفال بالقدس عاصمة للثقافة العربية لعام 2009، بعد عثوره على التقرير الخاص بترميم المسجد الأقصى في الألبوم التذكاري الفوتوغرافي الذي أهدي للملك فاروق بمناسبة الانتهاء من ترميم المسجد الأقصى، وذلك...
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