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Book Review by Ilan Pappe
By: Editor on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

By Ilan Pappe  Prominent Israeli academic and the Director of International Relations Division, Haifa University Over a year has passed now, since the Israeli army invaded the ...

Love power: will or fantasy?
Love power: will or fantasy?
By: Marie Therese Abdelmessih on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Al-Ahram Weekly 9 - 15 May 2002  Book :Ashbah Al-Hawas (Phantasmal Sensations) Cairo: Miret, 2001. pp80  Author: Ibrahim Farghali  Reviewed by Marie-Theres Abdel-Messih ...

Beautiful progeny
Beautiful progeny
By: Youssef Rakha on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Al-Ahram Weekly 19 - 25 December 2002  Book : Lailat Urs (Wedding Night) Cairo: Al-Hilal Novels Series  Author: Youssef Abu-Rayya Reviewed by Youssef Rakha  Since giving up journa...

Ahmed Shahawi and the Challenge to Fanaticism
Ahmed Shahawi and the Challenge to Fanaticism
By: Norddine Zouitni on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Poetry International - December 2003 The fatwa condemning Egyptian poet Ahmed Shahawi’s latest book as obscene is a cultural event worthy of consideration, argues our Moroccan editor Norddi...

Battling the odds of handicap with patience
Battling the odds of handicap with patience
By: Editor on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Book: The Taste of Patience Author: Mohammed Eid el-Araimi Reviewed by: Saleh Abdullah al Khamyasi THE Taste of Patience is both an autobiography and a semi-novel written by Mohammed Eid. He...

Hurricane Carter
Hurricane Carter
By: Editor on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

HENRY SIEGMAN The Nation - January 22, 2007 Former President Jimmy Carter's new book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, provoked an uproar even before its publication. The reason for the controve...

An American-Palestinian Love Story
An American-Palestinian Love Story
By: Sharif Elmusa on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

The Woman I Left Behind, Kim Jensen, Willimantic, Connecticut: Curbstone Press, 2006. pp201 Reviewed By Sharif Elmusa - Ahram Weekly Packed with politics and sensuality, as warm as bread baked in...

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...

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