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Motherhood and Its Ghosts

by Iman Mersal ...

Translated by Robin Moger ...

Series series Undelivered Lectures
Continuing her investigation into the archive, Iman Mersal sifts through representations of one of history’s most elusive figures—the hidden mother.No one excluded my mother from our joint portrait. It is before me now and I can see for myself that I was with her, but she is a ghost. The picture is a burden: an assault on, and fabrication of, what I remember. It doesn’t make my mother present; it ... Read more

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Continuing her investigation into the archive, Iman Mersal sifts through representations of one of history’s most elusive figures—the hidden mother.No one excluded my mother from our joint portrait. It is before me now and I can see for myself that I was with her, but she is a ghost. The picture is a burden: an assault on, and fabrication of, what I remember. It doesn’t make my mother present; it
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All the Battles

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by Maan Abu Taleb ...

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When he first showed up at Captain Ali's run-down boxing club, Saed was mocked for his bourgeois manners then humiliated in the ring. After barely a year of training, he has been consumed by the world of boxing and tipped for greatness. As his star rises, Saed is faced with the challenger he came for, but at what cost? Maan Abu Taleb's debut novel is one of heady victories and crushing defeats. ... Read more

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When he first showed up at Captain Ali's run-down boxing club, Saed was mocked for his bourgeois manners then humiliated in the ring. After barely a year of training, he has been consumed by the world of boxing and tipped for greatness. As his star rises, Saed is faced with the challenger he came for, but at what cost? Maan Abu Taleb's debut novel is one of heady victories and crushing defeats.
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Sleep Phase

by Mohamed Kheir ...

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After seven years in prison, Warif is released to a changed Cairo. Freedom so far has been endless, inscrutable meetings with official-looking strangers, trying to get his job as a translator back. This new Cairo, busy with expats and bureaucrats, is proving disorienting: What is he supposed to make of these self-assured newcomers who are so certain of his obsolescence, his subjugation, his ... Read more

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After seven years in prison, Warif is released to a changed Cairo. Freedom so far has been endless, inscrutable meetings with official-looking strangers, trying to get his job as a translator back. This new Cairo, busy with expats and bureaucrats, is proving disorienting: What is he supposed to make of these self-assured newcomers who are so certain of his obsolescence, his subjugation, his
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Traces of Enayat

by Iman Mersal ...

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When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great – yet forgotten – novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend, who had been Egypt's biggest movie star at the time; she is given access to Enayat's diaries. Mersal can't accept, as has been widely speculated ... Read more

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When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great – yet forgotten – novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend, who had been Egypt's biggest movie star at the time; she is given access to Enayat's diaries. Mersal can't accept, as has been widely speculated
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Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution

Voices from Tunis to Damascus

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An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab SpringAs revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about Facebook posts and tweeted calls to action, but what was missing was testimony from on-the-ground participants—which is precisely ... Read more

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An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab SpringAs revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about Facebook posts and tweeted calls to action, but what was missing was testimony from on-the-ground participants—which is precisely
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From the River to the Sea

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by Samer Abu Hawwash ...

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This new collection by Palestinian poet Samer Abu Hawwash was published in its original Arabic in the summer of 2024. The 24 poems are an intrepid literary journey into the genocide in Gaza, linking with Palestine's long years of existential trauma, and documenting the universal human questions that so many are asking in today's world. Living, as he has done since being born in Lebanon in 1972, in ... Read more

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This new collection by Palestinian poet Samer Abu Hawwash was published in its original Arabic in the summer of 2024. The 24 poems are an intrepid literary journey into the genocide in Gaza, linking with Palestine's long years of existential trauma, and documenting the universal human questions that so many are asking in today's world. Living, as he has done since being born in Lebanon in 1972, in
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The Crocodiles

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by Youssef Rakha ...

Translated by Robin Moger ...

Translated from the Arabic by Robin MogerA ferocious and urgent novel of the Arab Spring that begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, covering sex, violence, metafiction, deception, lost youth, and the last thirty years of a living, breathing, daring, burning, culturally infested Cairo.Youssef Rakha's novel is narrated by a man who looks back on the magical and explosive period of ... Read more

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Translated from the Arabic by Robin MogerA ferocious and urgent novel of the Arab Spring that begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, covering sex, violence, metafiction, deception, lost youth, and the last thirty years of a living, breathing, daring, burning, culturally infested Cairo.Youssef Rakha's novel is narrated by a man who looks back on the magical and explosive period of
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Slipping

by Mohamed Kheir ...

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Egyptian novelist, poet, journalist, and lyricist Mohamed Kheir is the winner of multiple literary awards, including the Sawiris Cultural Award (twice, once in 2011 and again in 2016) and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture Award (also twice, in 1998 and 2001). Slipping, his latest novel and his first available in English, written in 2018, has garnered glowing reviews from Egyptian writers and ... Read more

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Egyptian novelist, poet, journalist, and lyricist Mohamed Kheir is the winner of multiple literary awards, including the Sawiris Cultural Award (twice, once in 2011 and again in 2016) and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture Award (also twice, in 1998 and 2001). Slipping, his latest novel and his first available in English, written in 2018, has garnered glowing reviews from Egyptian writers and
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Otared

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by Mohammad Rabie ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONA horror-filled obituary on Egypt's failed revolution2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded once more. As traumatized Egyptians eke out a feral existence in Cairo's dusty downtown, former cop Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers seeking Egypt's liberation through the barrel of a gun.As Cairo becomes a ... Read more

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONA horror-filled obituary on Egypt's failed revolution2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded once more. As traumatized Egyptians eke out a feral existence in Cairo's dusty downtown, former cop Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers seeking Egypt's liberation through the barrel of a gun.As Cairo becomes a
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Traces of Enayat

by Iman Mersal ...

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From one of the preeminent poets of the Arabic-speaking world, a brilliant work of creative nonfiction retracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature's tragic heroine."A subtle and universal exploration of identity."—Aida Alami, The New York TimesCairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the ... Read more

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From one of the preeminent poets of the Arabic-speaking world, a brilliant work of creative nonfiction retracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature's tragic heroine."A subtle and universal exploration of identity."—Aida Alami, The New York TimesCairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the
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Women of Karantina

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by Nael Eltoukhy ...

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Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city's arid soil forge a legend, a kingdom of crime, a revolution: Karantina. Through three generations of Grand Guignol insanity ... Read more

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Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city's arid soil forge a legend, a kingdom of crime, a revolution: Karantina. Through three generations of Grand Guignol insanity
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The Book of Safety

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by Yasser Abdel Hafez ...

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Khaled transcribes testimonies at the Palace of Confessions, a shadowy state-run agency situated in a respectable Cairo suburb. There he encounters Mustafa Ismail: a university professor turned master thief, who breaks into the homes of the great and the good and then blackmails them into silence. Mustafa has dedicated his existence to the perfection of his trade and authored The Book of Safety, ... Read more

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Khaled transcribes testimonies at the Palace of Confessions, a shadowy state-run agency situated in a respectable Cairo suburb. There he encounters Mustafa Ismail: a university professor turned master thief, who breaks into the homes of the great and the good and then blackmails them into silence. Mustafa has dedicated his existence to the perfection of his trade and authored The Book of Safety,
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