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Married to another man: Israel's dilemma in Palestine
Married to another man: Israel's dilemma in Palestine
By: Sonia Karkar on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Married to another man: Israel's dilemma in Palestine Pluto Press (2007)pp328 Reviewed By Sonia Karkar* Dr. Ghada Karmi's latest book Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Pales...

Raff Ellis' "Kisses from a Distance"
Raff Ellis' "Kisses from a Distance"
By: Editor on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

By Hani M. Bathish The Daily Star, February 26, 2008 Raff Ellis' 'Kisses from a Distance' delves into the lure of migration, a subject that resonates deeply for nearly every Lebanese f...

"Fathers of men" essay-review of Massad's Desiring Arabs
"Fathers of men" essay-review of Massad's Desiring Arabs
By: Eric Walberg on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

The Western "civilising" project in its many guises has given rise to strange bedfellows. Not only do Christian and Islamic fundamentalists -- officially enemies of each other -- find common...

Murder in the Tower of Happiness
Murder in the Tower of Happiness
By: Lisa Kaaki on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

A rare thriller from the Arab world  Lisa Kaaki | Arab News Crime fiction is not popular in Arabic literature; in fact a number of Arab writers and scholars do not even consider it a noble ge...

The End of Dreams
The End of Dreams
By: Editor on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Murder in the Tower of Happiness M. M. Tawfik Cairo-New York: The American University in Cairo Press, December 2008 Pp. 340 Reviewed by Sally Bland Jordan Times - 31 August 2009 In this...

Narrating the Arab Spring through Radwa Ashour's Siraaj
Narrating the Arab Spring through Radwa Ashour's Siraaj
By: Mona Namoury on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Radwa Ashour's Siraaj promises a continuity of the revolution till “Bread, freedom, and social justice” are finally achieved says Mona el-Namoury. From a presentation at Arab Spring...

Why? A book of Thoughts
Why? A book of Thoughts
By: Marwan Asmar on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Poetry can be the greatest form of expression bounding on the aesthetic and the beautiful, rich, heartfelt, melancholic and the exhilaration of nuances, powerful expressions and the sense of beyond-ea...

Plaisirs coupables de Hamdi Gazzar
Plaisirs coupables de Hamdi Gazzar
By: Mohammed Berrada on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Ne parvenant pas à assumer une vie en marge des conventions sociales, un homme se résout à rentrer dans le rang. Le deuxième roman du jeune romancier égyptien H...

La métamorphose dans les ailes du silence de Rachid Mansoum
La métamorphose dans les ailes du silence de Rachid Mansoum
By: Monsif Ouadai Saleh on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Les ailes du silence est un recueil qui vient de naître dans l’immense parchemin de la poésie, non pas comme une intrusion qui profane inutilement la page de la discrétion, n...

Samar Diab : poétiques d'un avant-princeps
Samar Diab : poétiques d'un avant-princeps
By: Monsif Ouadai Saleh on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

Le texte que je vous propose aujourd’hui s’inscrit dans une triple étymologie. Au commencement, il y avait la finalité sobre et économe d’une préface &agr...

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