Books
By Aisha K. Nasser
African Titanics
By Abu Bakr Khaal
Translated by Charis Bredin
Darf Publishers Ltd, 2014.
(First published in Arabic by Dar al Saqi, London, 2008.)
Media accounts normalize the tally of illegal African immigrants drowning while crossing the Mediterranean. Eritrean novelist Abu Bakr Khaal disrupts this false sense of normality by giving voices to these immigrants.
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Tawfiq al-Hakim: Foretelling the Youth Revolution
The Revolt of the Young: Essays by Tawfiq al-Hakim
Translated by Mona Radwan
Syracuse UP, 2015, 145 pp.
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Ghostly Performances: Arab-American ‘Otherness’ and Haunted Stereotypes
Sin, Redemption, and Visions of Female Illness in Modern Arab Literature
The Female Suffering Body, Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature
By Abir Hamdar
By Abir Hamdar
From Kansas to Beirut: A Tale of Two Women
Reconstructing the Disastrous History of the Lebanese Famine
The Aftermath of War: Barakat Novel Focuses on Lost Humanity
Middle Eastern Comedies as Social Critiques
By Lynne Rogers
Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema
Edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman
Wayne State University Press, 2014. 282 pp.
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First Novel Still Relevant
By Judith Gabriel
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
By Nawal el-Saadawi
Translated by Catherine Cobham
London: Saqi Books, 2000, 101 pp.
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