contemporary Arabic fiction
‘Al-Feel al-Azraq’: Ahmed Mourad’s latest novel blends thriller and crime with pyschiatry
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January 3, 2013
‘Al-Feel al-Azraq’: Ahmed Mourad’s latest novel blends thriller and crime with pyschiatry
Less than three months after its release, a reprint of “Al-Feel al-Azraq” (The Blue Elephant) came out in December to…
Arab authors pick their fictional favorites
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December 27, 2012
Arab authors pick their fictional favorites
The judges on the panel of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction have come out with their list of the…
The revolution, fast-fowarded: ‘Exit Door’ offers perceptive look at uprising
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November 8, 2012
The revolution, fast-fowarded: ‘Exit Door’ offers perceptive look at uprising
What may be harder than making a revolution is writing a good novel about it. Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, a political…
Living with ghosts: The specters of Radwa Ashour
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November 10, 2010
Living with ghosts: The specters of Radwa Ashour
“Our society annihilates us in a thousand ways on a daily basis, so we learn gradually how to get our…