The blog features ongoing research, unfinished projects, fragments, and other miscellany that I might revisit, expand or leave as it is.
What Messadi's Abu Hurairah Didn't Say
Review of Mahmoud Messadi’s Abu Hurairah Said (1973)
Rama and the Dragon: An Avatar too Short of the Truth
A review of Edwar al-Kharrat’s Rama and the Dragon (2002)
Too Desolate for Words: Reading Haidar Haidar's Desolate Time
A review of Haidar Haidar’s Desolate Time (1973)
Maqamat with a Spin: Emile Habiby's The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
A review, of Emile Habibi's second novel Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-gharībah fī 'khtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī 'l-Naḥsh al-Mutashāʾil or The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimst (1974)
The Searing Sun: Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun
A review of Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun (1960)
An Autobiography in Disguise: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s Searching for Walid Masoud
A review of Jabra Ibarhim Jabra’s In Search of Walid Massoud