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‘The Bride of Reeds’ and Tamazight Literature’s from Oral to Written
Rachid Bouxerroub was the inaugural winner of the Assia Djebar fiction prize in the Tamazight category
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BLIND SPOTS: A platform of reflection interweaving law and poetry
An interview with artist Debra Werblud
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Moroccan Writer and Scholar Fatema Mernissi, 75
Fatema Mernissi, author of the acclaimed memoir Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, has died at 75
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The third and youngest of Karl Marx ’ daughter
We spoke with author Rachel Holmes who recently published an interesting and gripping biography of Eleanor Marx (Eleanor Marx, Bloomsbury)
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33 Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas
It’s now been thirty-three years since the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps. They continue to show up in novels, poems, and memoirs
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Arabic literature: a little gold mine
Marcia Linx Qualey runs a very interesting blog. a fascinating one for many aspects. It is called “Arab literature in English” and it is an incredible source of information, reviews, suggestion
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From Diyarbakkir to Lalish: Walking in the Footsteps of Genocide
Iraqi novelist Layla Qasrany traveled to Turkey to commemorate the Armenian genocide
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Arab Women Writers
Nine acclaimed Arab women writers chose favorite books by other Arab women writers
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Great Books Behind Omar Sharif ’s Films
Omar Sharif is perhaps best-known for his role in Dr. Zhivago, based on the classic novel by Boris Pasternak. But many of his films were based on acclaimed books
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DANIEL CHAVARRIA RECUERDA A EDUARDO GALEANO (Libro de los Abrazos en PDF)
Post Views: 22 El escritor uruguayo Daniel Chavarria, que vive en La Habana hace muchos años, ha enviado esas lineas, un recuerdo del escritor Eduardo Galeano. Galeano, uruguayo como Chavarria, murió ayer, 13 de Abril. Nos parece que no haya
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