Calligrapher’s Secret, The
29 January '14
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
29 January '14
Menstruation
29 January '14
Four stories intertwine in a ballet of lives: Kindah, the renowned Western-educated feminist; Nadim, her husband, a prominent scholar of Islamic history; Wisam, their neighbor, a newlywed; and Hasan, the young son of a local imam, whose mysterious powers emanate from a sense of smell so strong he can distinguish a menstruating woman from among […]
Cage without Bars, A
29 January '14
The small boy was trying to climb over the wall surrounding the labyrinth that he wanted to leave, when he heard the elderly people back home shouting and telling him to go back to bed. His grip on the wall loosened and he fell to the ground waking up from his dream to find himself […]
In the Middle of Nowhere
29 January '14
When Abe – a young man with dreams of belonging – went to live in his parents’ country, he went to his family’s village and had a tomb built in the churchyard for future use. Life went on, with work, children, schooling. Three decades later the tomb was still unoccupied when, during the civil war, […]
Others, The
29 January '14
A nameless young university student in Saudi Arabia has no contact with men outside her family, so when the charming Dai seduces her, her feelings of guilt are overwhelmed by the need for intimacy. Her girlfriend Dai introduces her to a secret world of lesbian parties and love affairs, and it’s here that she meets […]
Dunyazad
29 January '14
May Telmissany’s novel is the story of a woman who suffers one of life’s greatest tragedies, the loss of her child. We read about months of anticipation, the trauma of the event and the devastating effect on herself and those surrounding her. The book explores in great detail the slow and agonizing process of recovery, […]
Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories, A
29 January '14
This reader consists of the full Arabic text of 11 carefully chosen and very readable short stories by established Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian and Jordanian writers. The earliest story, written in 1929, is by the Egyptian Mahmud Tahir Lashin; the most recent by the Iraqi writer, Fuad al-Takarli, written in 1972. Each story has an introduction, […]
Two Women in One
29 January '14
Bahiah Shaheen is a young medical student outwardly obedient to the wishes of her petit bourgeois family but inwardly starved for freedom and affection.