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Category: Book Reviews

25 January, 2021 • Farah Abdessamad

The Polyphony of a Syrian Refugee Speaks Volumes

Farah Abdessamad reviews Silence is a Sense, the new novel from Layla AlAmmar.

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30 December, 2020 • Layla AlAmmar

The Howling of the Dog: Adania Shibli’s “Minor Detail”

Layla AlAmmar takes us into the heart of Adania Shibli's literary thriller, where Palestinian lives are but a "minor detail."

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15 October, 2020 • N.A. Mansour

Falastin, Sami Tamimi’s “Palestinian Modern”

N.A. Mansour reviews the tantalizing recipes in Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley's new cookbook of Palestinian cuisine.

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4 October, 2020 • Ella Shohat

Egypt—Abandoned but not Forgotten

A Land Like You gives a palpable sense of a community that could not have imagined its own uprooting out of Egypt.

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15 September, 2020 • Sarah AlKahly-Mills

Salvaging the shipwreck of humanity in Amin Maalouf’s Adrift

Maalouf draws a line from pivotal years in Middle Eastern history to some of the most pressing dilemmas currently facing humanity.

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14 September, 2020 • India Hixon Radfar

Poetic Exploration of Illness Conveys Trauma

I am waiting for the Tunisian American writer Leila Chatti to tell me, in her own words, in her debut collection of poetry, Deluge, about women in Islam, but she is telling me about blood instead.

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10 November, 2015 • Jordan Elgrably

Tamim Ansary’s Afghan-American Story

The story of an Afghan who became an American in the age of Haight-Ashbury.

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1 July, 2015 • Jordan Elgrably

“Off the Radar” Grapples with Iranian-American Identities

  Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest, by Cyrus Copeland Blue Rider Press (2015) ISBN: 9780399158506 Jordan Elgrably Having parents from two different… Continue reading “Off the Radar” Grapples with Iranian-American Identities

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