The echoes of Radwa Ashourâs last scream
Ashourâs long-awaited and much-celebrated book is the second part of her autobiography.
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The woman, the warrior, the philosopher: âThe Problem of Rulingâ
By Nouran Maamoun âWomen in Councilâ was a Greek comedy by Aristophanes and it was played in 392 BC, then after more than two millennia, that ancient play inspired one of Tawfiq Al-Hakimâs most brilliant works; Praxa, or âThe Problem of Rulingâ. The book is only a little more than a 100 pages, …
El-Manfalouti and âSous Les Tilleulsâ
 By Nouran Maamoun âSous Les Tilleulsâ was the first novel written by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Karr wrote this autobiographical romantic novel in 1832. Over 60 years later, Mustafa Lutfi El-Manfalouti translated it into Arabic under the name âMagdolinâ. âMagdolinâ itself became another masterpiece, as El-Manfaloutiâs translation, …
Gaza: Stay Human
As if words are not enough to describe how humanity was crushed during this war, the book is scattered with black and white pictures showing the rubble, destruction and despair in peopleâs eyes.
Connected in Cairo
The book is not just a boring academic read either, even casual readers will benefit from its flowing style replete with short anecdotes that inject liveliness and background into the sometimes sweeping generalisations Peterson makes.
American Dervish: A conversation about love, identity and faith
By Naazish YarKhan CHICAGO, Illinois: Ayad Akhtarâs âAmerican Dervish,â set in preâ9/11 American suburbia, is a bold debut novel, where the author seems to hold the American Muslim community by the collar, and shake it into recognizing its failings â whether they are anti-Semitism, the unwillingness to accept that Muslims come in various shades or the …