Beirut, I love you
29 January '14
Sons of Cypresses
29 January '14
‘Now that I am seventy years of age, it is my prerogative to offer a summing up’, says Meron Benvenisti, internationally known author and columnist, Jerusalem native, and scion of Israel’s founders. Born in Palestine in 1934 to a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi mother, Benvenisti has enjoyed an unusual vantage point from which to […]
cloud of forgetting, A
29 January '14
Teta, Mother and Me
29 January '14
Daughter of Isis, A
29 January '14
This is the first volume of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, giving an emotionally shattering, but wonderfully lyrical, portrait of her childhood in a remote Egyptian village — the childhood that produced the freedom fighter. She describes vividly the culture of the place and time into which she was born and also her intuitive […]
Camp Shatila
29 January '14
Shatila is a Palestinian refugee camp in outer Beirut, home to 17,000 people existing in an area the size of a cricket field, and the scene of the Shatila massacre when up to 3,000 were killed. This book documents Peter Mortimer’s time on camp, including setting up a children’s theatre group which travelled to Britain […]
House on Arnus Square, The
29 January '14
Returning to her childhood home after an absence of 20 years, Samar Attar relives her past while she confronts the daily kaleidoscope of changes that swirl around her. Her juxtaposed observations of past and present form a three-dimensional picture that is private and specific while reflecting the political and sociological changes that have gradually taken […]
Once in Sinai
29 January '14
Algerian White
29 January '14
Weaving a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in Algeria between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society, Djebar describes with unerring accuracy and a ghostly presence the lives and deaths of those writers and intellectuals whose contributions were cut short.