Blogs about: Gamal Al Ghitani
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A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature - A Review
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature truly is a brief introduction, but for anyone who is unacquainted with modern Arabic Literature, this book is a good introduction. The book covers lite… more →
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Cairo Modern?: Geoff Fox on Gamal al-Ghitani's The Zafarani Files
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Daniel Casey wrote 4 months ago: The Zafarani Files, Gamal al-Ghitani, trans. Farouk Abdel Wahab, American University in Cairo Press … more →
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 →
Empty Feeling: The Vagaries of the Sixties
Youssef Rakha wrote 7 months ago: In the 1960s and 1970s, the writing of of Ibrahim Aslan and Mohamed el Bisatie asserted the importan … more →
Review of Modern Arabic Fiction in Al-Ahram
bythefirelight wrote 9 months ago: There is a good review of the Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthologyin Al-Ahram Weekly. Of particular i … more →
Gamal al-Ghitani Wins Zayed Book Award in Literature
bythefirelight wrote 9 months ago: Gamal al-Ghitani won the Zayed Book Award for Literature recently. I don’t know how important … more →
The Mahfouz Dialogs
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bythefirelight wrote 1 year ago: The Mahfouz Dialogs Gamal Al-ghitani Sometime ago I made it my mission to read everything in English … more →
The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz
bythefirelight wrote 1 year ago: The Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz Gamal Al-ghitani If your are going to read the Cairo Trilogy, you should … more →
Egyptian Novels
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qunfuz wrote 1 year ago: Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz In the contemporary Arab world, Bilad ash-Sham, or the Levant, surely … more →
