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كتاب الطغرى: خريطة القاهرة

Youssef Rakha wrote 3 months ago: … more →

Tags: Akhbar al Adab

Sons of Mahfouz

Youssef Rakha wrote 4 months ago: Youssef Rakha quizzes out novelist Ibrahim Farghali on his greatest masterpiece to date Finally, a t … more →

Tags: Egypt, Trilogy, Arabic Booker, prose poem, The Trilogy, Generation of the Sixties, Arabs, cultural trope, Ibrahim Farghali

منصورة عز الدين

Youssef Rakha wrote 4 months ago: من يعرف سر الفردوس “ترجل أربعة رجال من العربة مرتدين عباءات سوداء فوق جلابيبهم الكشمير، وفتحوا الباب … more →

Tags: Akhbar al Adab, All About My Mother, arab women, Arabs, brick making, Egypt, fem lib, fitsPagesWidth=1, Gamal Al-ghitani

Empty Feeling: The Vagaries of the Sixties

Youssef Rakha wrote 6 months ago: In the 1960s and 1970s, the writing of of Ibrahim Aslan and Mohamed el Bisatie asserted the importan … more →

Tags: Egypt, Naguib Mahfouz, Arabic Booker, prose poem, Generation of the Sixties, Denys Johnson Davies, American University in Cairo Press, Clamour of the Lake, Muhammad Choukri

Azazeel: Disillusionment1 comment

Youssef Rakha wrote 7 months ago: The Quixote Code Remembering Borges, Youssef Rakha courts sedition He did not want to compose anothe … more →

Tags: Arabic Booker, Azazeel, Council of Ephesus, Youssef Zeidan, Hipatia, Manuscript, Byzantium, assyrian, Constantinople

The Good Turk, two years ago

Youssef Rakha wrote 7 months ago: Orhan Pamuk wih Carol Becker —————————— … more →

Tags: Islam, Manuscript, Constantinople, Orhan Pamuk, Turkish v Ottoman, illuminated manuscript, painting in Islam, My Name Is Red, turkey

BIDOUN REVIEW OF AZAZEEL

Youssef Rakha wrote 7 months ago: Syriac book, late fifth century Azazeel, Beezlebub, Youssef Zeidan, Cairo: Dar Al Shurouk, April 200 … more →

Tags: Islam, Arabic Booker, Azazeel, Ecumenical, Council of Ephesus, Copts, Youssef Zeidan, Twelve Anathemas, Hipatia

مِثلي مِثلك

Youssef Rakha wrote 7 months ago: لا تكاد تنتهي من رواية «الآخرون» (الساقي 2006)،تأليف شابة سعودية من منطقة القطيف الشيعية تنشر باسم ص … more →

Tags: Jean Genet, مجتمع مغلق, أدب, المثلي, الأخرون, الأدب السعودي, التزمت, الجنس, السعودية

Cry my beloved poetry

Youssef Rakha wrote 8 months ago: Spring brought poetry from the inaugural round of the Dubai International Poetry Festival (4-10 Marc … more →

Tags: Akhbar al Adab, Alarabi Magazine Symposium, Amir Al-Shu’ara’, Aroud Al Akhalil, David Lynch, Free Verse, Ibrahim al Mulla, Khalid al Budoor, prose poem


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