One-minute Review: Khaled Al Khamissi’s /Taxi/
Taxi. By Khaled Al Khamissi, trans. Jonathan Wright. Aflame Books: London, 2008. 218 pages. I’m not the sort of person who “laughs out loud” while reading. My people hail from […]
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New and Reviewed: Khalidi’s Qur’an Translation, Celeb (Magrhebi) Memoir, and Nazi-to-Arab Propaganda
The Angry Arab News Service lauds the new Qur’an translation done by Tarif Khalidi and now out from Penguin Classics. First, As’ad AbuKhalil says that the translation is accurate, which […]
One-minute Review: /The Zafarani Files/, Gamal el-Ghitani
The Zafarani Files. By Gamal el-Ghitani, translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab. American University in Cairo Press: Cairo, 2009. 344 pages. In The Zafarani Files, as in Saramago’s Blindness, mysterious illness […]