Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
19 - 25 November 1998
Issue No.404
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Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

iraq women New anthologies of Iraqi writing, brought out by Ishtar Publishing, foreground the human cost of the Iraqi tragedy. Below, Ferial J. Ghazoul reviews the collections while Denys Johnson-Davies translates one of the stories anthologised

A literary passage to besieged Iraq
Inside the garden

Music Music

Seven into one won't go

David Blake preferred one instrument at a time

Caracalla Fusing East and West

Sahar Hamouda, writing from Beirut, previews Caracalla's Andalusia