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Al-Ahram Weekly 11 - 17 May 2000 Issue No. 481
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Monthly supplement
Footprints in the sand
In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album 1805-1952, Hassan Hassan, Cairo: AUC Press, 2000. pp146
Building bridges, joining streams
Post Gibran: An Anthology of New Arab-American Writing, Eds. Munir Akash, Khaled Mattawa, Syracuse: Jusoor/ Syracuse University Press, 1999. pp460
A genius for hobnobbing
The Fellahin of Upper Egypt, Winifred S Blackman, Cairo: AUC Press, 2000. pp325Stereotyping the Other
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Edited by David R Blanks and Michael Frassetto, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. pp235Confrontation or accommodation?
America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? Fawaz A Gerges, Cambridge University Press, 1999. pp285"United they stand..."
Women, Islamisms and the State, Azza Karam, London : MacMillan, 1998.pp284
To the editor
Books is a monthly supplement of Al-Ahram Weekly appearing every second Thursday of the month. We welcome contributions and letters on subjects raised in this supplement. Material may be edited for length and clarity; and should be addressed to Mona Anis, Books Editor, Al-Ahram Weekly, Galaa St., Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt; Faz: +202 578 6089; E-mail: m.anis@ahram.org.eg
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Illustrations courtesy of International Commitee of the Red Cross
"Folk drawings and tales", Cairo, 1996
Medicine for the soul
Medicine of the Prophet, Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, Translated by Penelope Johnston, Islamic Texts Society, 1998.
At a glanceBooks
* Warda fi Orwat Al-Faris Al-Nabil (A Rose in the Noble Knight's Buttonhole), Soaad Al-Sobah (ed.), Kuwait: Dar Soaad Al-Sobah, 2000. pp.798
* Nazariyat Al-Riwaya (Theory of the Novel), Faisal Darrag, Casablanca/Beirut: Arab Cultural Centre, 2000. pp318
* Law lam Akon Misriyan (Had I not been an Egyptian), Ibrahim Issa, Cairo: Samizdat, 2000. pp.214
* Fi'ran bila Johour (Mice without Grovelling), Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Faqih, Cairo: Al-Hilal Novels Series, Dar Al-Hilal, April 2000. pp.248
* Fi Intizar Qafilat Tamr (Waiting for Tamr's Caravan), Amani Khalil, Cairo: Zoweil Publications, 2000. pp.87Periodicals
* Al-Kotob: Wughat Nazar (Books: Viewpoints), monthly review of books, Issue No.16, May 2000, Cairo: The Egyptian Company for Arab and International Publication
* Al-Arabi, monthly magazine, Issue No.498, May 2000, Kuwait: Ministry of Information
* Al-Hilal, monthly magazine, Issue No.5, May 2000, Cairo: Dar Al-Hilal
*Al-Osour Al-Jadida (New Eras), monthly magazine, Issue No.7, March 2000, Cairo: Sinai Publishing House
* Sotour (Lines), monthly magazine, Issue No.42, May 2000, Cairo: Sotour
