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TRIO! Ceri Evans discusses three books by Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif.
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"Seven Little Rooms" - original fiction by notable Hindi author Mridula Garg.
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Who Has the Power? Reading Arab Women in English by M. Lynx Qualey
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Reviews
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THE HEART SPECIALIST
Claire Holden Rothman
I raced through this novel at one sitting (it's a missing-your-bus-stop kind of a read) and then went back to re-read more slowly. Claire Holden Rothman, inspired by the life of Dr Maud Abbott (1869-1940), one of Montreal's first female doctors, loosely based this engrossing story on Abbott's experiences.
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Reviewed by Chris Mills
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THE BORDER OF TRUTH
Victoria Redel
Sara Leader is a lonely, middle aged professor whose knowledge of her father's past is very limited. Between working on a hefty translation of German thinker Walter Benjamin's papers, undergoing a rigorous adoption process, and keeping an eye on her aging father, delving into family history does not seem …
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Reviewed by Julia Mignone
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THE CONFESSIONS OF NOA WEBER
Gail Hareven
Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu
If you expect fiction to have plot, then this award-winning novel by Israeli author Gail Hareven is probably not the book for you! However, if you wish to experience living in someone else's head, reading The Confessions of Noa Weber will offer you very rare insights into …
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Reviewed by Dorothy Dudek Vinicombe
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MAP OF HOME
Randa Jarrar
Jarrar's bold debut is seemingly effortless. She is a born storyteller who transports you with ease from Boston to Kuwait, then to Egypt when the Iraq invasion occurs, and then on to Texas, with Nidali, the young, intrepid protagonist, who should have been a boy.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie-Dawood
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