She might quote Jack Keruoac ("I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion") but Haddad is anything but...
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The text of The Scalpel (al-Mishrat) stands at a particular and general civilisational crossroad. It is a humoristic reading of...
Maya Abu Alhayyat* I used to hear my father say, “suffice to return to a dump on that land for...
There’s a lengthy Q&A with Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in Banipal 43, which just arrived at my PO box. The...
"We are all capable of making our existence palpable, of changing the world one person at a time, poem by...
Hamza Kashgari, a young writer for the Saudi daily newspaper Al Bilad who fled his homeland after being charged with...
Desiring Arabs by Joseph A. Massad, University of Chicago Press, 2007, 472 pp. Sexual desire has long played a...
“Rarely does modern Arab thought attempt to openly challenge the intellectual structures and the dominant metaphysical ideology of our society,...
Anita Amirrezvani "Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924. - book reviews". Whole Earth Review Huda Shaarawi, an...
The Egyptian author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Naguib Mahfouz wrote many great novels, among them Midaq...
