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Bearing Witness: Recent Literature from Lebanon

12 February '16

This is Vol. 37, No. 3 of The Literary Review (Bearing Witness: Recent Literature from Lebanon). Good morning, my exile. The pages are white – so are my memories – my dreams must run their course before I can begin. From Memoirs in Exile by Joseph Abi Daher I know you, Beirut! I know you […]

Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature

13 November '15

A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last fifteen hundred years. From the mystical imagery of the Qur’an and the colorful stories of The Thousand and One Nights, to the powerful verses of […]