novels
Tributes and outrage: Behind the ‘Booker’
Books
May 6, 2010
Tributes and outrage: Behind the ‘Booker’
Fifty-year-old scholar Youssef Zidan's controversial novel Azazeel (The Devil) clinched the Arabic world’s top literary prize – the Arabic Booker…
Drumbeat: Tales from the Gulf’s back end
Books
March 25, 2010
Drumbeat: Tales from the Gulf’s back end
There are over a quarter of a million Egyptian immigrants working in the United Arab Emirates today--or rather, that is…