by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Mar 13, 2015 | Book Reviews
[inset_left]Al-RawiyatMaha HassanDar Al-Tanweer, 192 pagesBeirut, 2014[/inset_left] London, Asharq Al-Awsat—In her most recent novel, Al-Rawiyat (Female Narrators), published last year, Syrian novelist Maha Hassan explores the esoteric realms of oral and written...
by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Nov 9, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Well-known Egyptian writer Ahmed Khaled Towfik once wrote: “In fact, people in Egypt are fortunate. They do not need to read horror fiction in order to rehearse death. Horror—particularly its worst kind: fear of tomorrow—is a permanent...
by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Aug 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—For Mai Al-Nakib, a Kuwaiti writer who spent large chunks of her life away from her home country, writing fiction is “a way to open a space to kind of remind myself of the different kind of place Kuwait used to be.” [inset_left]The Hidden Light...
by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Aug 2, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—“Arabs are savage tribes, but Britain is the land of democracy,” shouts Salim Abdul Hussein—or Carlos Fuentes—as he struggles in his broken English to convince the UK Border Agency officer of the validity of his asylum claim. Based on a short...
by Al-Mustafa Najjar | May 16, 2014 | Book Reviews
[inset_left]The Arch and The ButterflyBy Mohammed AchaariTranslated by Aida Bamia324 pages Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, Doha: May 2014[/inset_left]It is a rather disappointing beginning: the narrator, a middle-aged, Left-leaning Moroccan journalist,...
