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Asharq Al-Awsat Book Review: Cockroach


Asharq Al-Awsat Book Review: Cockroach

Asharq Al-Awsat Book Review: Cockroach

What is the most loathsome creature you could think of? To Franz Kafka, the Czech novelist, the answer was: a cockroach. Now, imagine the whole world as a desolate back alley with row after row of dustbins brimming with putrefying rubbish inhabited by hordes of...

Grass: Untold Stories

The latest political crisis in Iran has highlighted the difficulties of covering a country that is both anxious to open itself to the outside world and afraid of doing so. These days the authorities are expelling the foreign media because they do not wish television...

The Lady from Tel Aviv

If you leave aside its modern setting, Rabai al-Madhoun’s new novel would read as a tale out of the 1001 Nights. There is a narrator, not always reliable and often mischievously determined to put us on the wrong track, relating a story of love and separation....
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The Search for Al Qaeda


The Search for Al Qaeda

The Search for Al Qaeda

A visit to most bookshops during the past few years may well have convinced you that we now have all the books that anyone might want to read on Al Qaeda. Well, apparently not. Many of the books on the subject turn out to be little more than a re-collaging of previous...
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Khomeini’s Ghost


Khomeini’s Ghost

Khomeini’s Ghost

As the Obama administration prepares to engage Iran diplomatically, one question is paramount: Who are the men with whom the White House hopes to reach accommodation with? Con Coughlin’s new book “Khomeini’s Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise...
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Iran’s Longest Night in History


Iran’s Longest Night in History

Iran’s Longest Night in History

For thirty years, the regime in Iran has been a puzzle to most Iranians and a mystery wrapped in an enigma to the outside world. It has rejected almost every single tenet of Iranian culture, denied the best part of the Iranian history, and tried to remould an ancient...