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Who Will You Find in ‘Banipal 40: Libyan Fiction’?
Banipal featured “Modern Tunisian Literature” in its 39th issue and 40, scheduled for a March 1 release, will showcase “Libyan Fiction.” If there had been a 39 1/2 on young Egy… more →
Arabic Literature (in English)
More than a Return
wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been a subscriber to the New Yorker for a few years now. When I first started reading it, I’d g … more →
WWW_Wednesdays 20th Feb 2013
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wrote 2 months ago: It’s truly incredible how time flies when the reading’s good To play along, just answer … more →
Anatomy of a Disappearance - Hisham Matar
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wrote 2 months ago: A quick read in large print! Oh the Joy! After wading through The Famished Road, this one was a walk … more →
www_wednesdays 13th Feb
wrote 3 months ago: Yes, yes, I know this is a day late, but I haven’t had a very literary time this past week and … more →
My Favorite Books - 2012
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wrote 5 months ago: I know. I know. Everyone and their brother has a “Best of” list at this time of year, bu … more →
Kosheen at the Flex
wrote 6 months ago: I had the chance to see Kosheen yesterday at the Flex in Vienna. I think it was sold out but I am no … more →
Salzburg for a day
wrote 6 months ago: Two weeks ago I decided to go to Salzburg for day. Salzburg is about three hours by train from Vienn … more →
Week 11. Who invited Facebook and Twitter to the Uprising Party?
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wrote 7 months ago: What’s Fueling The Arab Uprising? Social networking enabled the rest of the world to sit and w … more →
My First Day at School.
wrote 7 months ago: I started classes for my MA this week, and I was pretty terrified when I arrived. I was intimidated … more →
In the Country of Men
wrote 8 months ago: In the Country of Men Hisham Matar Publisher: Penguin 2724 pp Category: Fiction Read for my book clu … more →
“In the Country of Men” by Hisham Matar
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wrote 9 months ago: Review by Marina Chamma. For many, to talk about political prisoners is to talk about the injustice … more →
Sydney Writer's Festival: Hisham Matar
wrote 10 months ago: In the Country of Menby Hisham Matar By Courtney Taylor Libyan author Hisham Matar joined Suzanne Le … more →
Day 2
wrote 10 months ago: We also did the numbers very briefly yesterday, in that each person had to remember one number (alon … more →
The act of creation is ...
wrote 10 months ago: “The act of creation is an act of love.” Hisham Matar. Sydney Writers’ Festival 20 … more →
A Good (Global) Read
wrote 11 months ago: This week sees the welcome return of A Good Read to the radio and, while I may have been heard to mu … more →
The City and the Writer: In London with Hisham Matar
wrote 1 year ago: Hisham Matar Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first … more →
Guest BlogPost: Professor Pius Adesanmi - Face Me, I Book You: Writing Africa’s Agency in the Age of the Netizen
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wrote 1 year ago: Professor Pius Adesanmi is the author of You’re Not a Country, Africa! (Keynote lecture delive … more →
Anatomy of a Disappearance - Hisham Matar (2011)
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wrote 1 year ago: I read Hisham Matar’s first novel “In the country of Men” – a few years ago and absolutely loved it. … more →
Paperback Picks
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wrote 1 year ago: SO MUCH PRETTY by Cara Hoffman 4 stars It took me a while to really catch the rhythm of this n … more →
