Bahaa Abdelmeguid’s Sleeping With Strangers

On Translation Bahaa Abdelmeguid's Sleeping With Strangers, Inaam Kachachi's The American Granddaughter, Miral al-Tahawy's Brooklyn Heights

Reading Arabic Novels About Americans

December 27, 2010

There was a moment last night, when Miral al-Tahawy and Bahaa Abdelmeguid were talking about American children, that I wanted to step in and give my opinion on the matter—as though the Kotob Khan event were a chat show and not a discussion of al-Tahawy’s prize-winning 2010 novel, Brooklyn Heights.

Reviews Bahaa Abdelmeguid's Sleeping With Strangers

One-minute Review: Bahaa Abdelmeguid’s Sleeping With Strangers

September 12, 2010

I de-coupled this from my review of Abdelmeguid’s Saint Theresa, although the two novellas have been published together by AUC Press, because I find Sleeping with Strangers a much harder book to review.