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“omar khalifah”

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  • Sand-Catcher

    by Omar Khalifah ...
    Translated by Barbara Romaine ...
    A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted.Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked, on account of their heritage, with profiling one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba, the violent expulsion of native Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. Confident that the old man will be all too happy to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary

    by Omar Khalifah ...
    Series series Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

    $26.79 USD

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  • The Cairo Trilogy

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