Blogs in May 2020

The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor 3rd May 2020

Aspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, and very curly hair are a recipe for disaster in 1980s Syria. And at the tender age of thirteen, she is exiled to live with her...

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Diary of a Jewish Muslim 3rd May 2020

Egyptian Muslims and Jews were not always at odds. Before the Arab Israeli wars, before the mass exodus of Jews from Egypt, there was harmony. Spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, this sweeping novel accompanies Galal, a young boy...

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The Woman from Tantoura 3rd May 2020

Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drove her from her home and from everything she had ever known. She had not left her village before, but...

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All That I Want to Forget 3rd May 2020

Fatima loves poetry and wants to study French literatureboth of which are anathema to her strict and conservative much older brother, Saqr. While living under his roof, Fatimas hopes and dreams are scrutinized, mocked, and slowly crushed as she...

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Menorahs and Minarets 3rd May 2020

In the third part of Kamal Ruhayyim’s trilogy, Galal, the son of a mixed Jewish/Muslim family returns to Egypt after ten years in Paris. What he finds is a society in flux, yet still stifled by convention. As his...

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