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Leona, 7, poses inside a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books in London, 2012. Olivia Harris / Reuters
The Unicorn: Novel with Theatrical Soul
Cairo-It is not the first time that different types of literature are merged and we may have gotten used to such texts in poetry, songs, and others. Yet in this novel, we are facing a narration called “monodrama” … It is “The Unicorn” (Wahid al-Qarn) novel for...Caption:
Dorit Rabinyan’s novel which is barred from the curriculum on sale at a book shop on Thursday (AP)
Arab-Israeli Love Story Sparks Controversy in Tel- Aviv
The decision by the Israeli minister of education to ban a novel that revolves around a love story between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from the Israeli high school curriculum has sparked a fierce debate about how Israeli society deals with its cultural...Caption:
Small child gazing at toys in the market, Kuwait
An Author’s Search for the Kuwait of Old
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...Caption:
File photo of books on a library shelf. (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)