Modern and Contemporary Arabic Literature
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Latifa al-Zayat’s The Open Door
Review of Latifa al-Zayat's The Open Door (1960) as part of Mada Masr's Literary Gems series
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Nawal Saadawi’s The Fall of the Imam
Review of Nawal Saadawi's banned novel, The Fall of the Imam (1987)
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Pearls, psychoanalysis and pre-oil nostalgia
Review of Ihsan Abdel Quddous' Gone are the Days of the Pearls (1984) reflecting on Egypt's problematic relationship with GCC countries
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The Italian: Some insights, but homophobia and misogyny galore
Review of Tunisian author, Shukri al-Mabkhout's International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) winner, The Italian (2015)
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The ecstatic madness of the Mahdiyya
Review of Sudanese author, Hammour Ziada's The Longing of the Dervish (2014), shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for 2015