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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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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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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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WHO FEARS DEATH
Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okarafor's fanciful and furious novel Who Fears Death is a truly strange hybrid, combining "ripped from the headlines" details of genocide, rape, and female genital mutilation with lyrical descriptions of African deserts and fantastical elements like dueling sorcerers and shape-shifting. It shouldn't work—but it does, and I was drawn in…
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Reviewed by F. P. Crawford
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PALIMPSEST
Catherynne M. Valente
Think of a novel as an amalgam of its story, its ideas, its people, and its language. Does a particular story demand a particular sort of language? Palimpsest is a fantastical city, sprawling over a vast territory, functioning on magic, eclectic in architecture, infested with clockwork insects, populated by …
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Reviewed by Michael Matthew
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