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Wounding Words
Poetical and powerful, Wounding Words is a vivid autobiographical exploration of women's issues in the political turmoil of contemporary Tunisia.
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The Open Door
This novel explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. It traces the pressures on …
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the tiller of waters
This spellbinding novel narrates the many-layered recollections of a hallucinating man in devastated Beirut. The desolate, almost surreal, urban landscape is enriched by the unfolding of the family sagas of …
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Children of the New World
A compelling war novel, as seen by women, sheds light on the current Iraq conflict.
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The Abductor
"Nayla Zeitoun has just been told by her son that she has become a grandmother. In his excitement he lets out a small secret about the child, and she flies …
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The Sandwoman
The author's feminism is subtle. She understands that repression imprisons men as well as women... But although the mirror she holds up is clouded, it does provide a fascinating reflection.
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