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8 - 14 February 2001
Issue No.520
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February 2001

Books
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Books Supplement

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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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Port Said
Eyes wide open
The Open Door, Latifa El-Zayyat, trans. Marilyn Booth, Cairo: AUC Press, 2000. pp364
Bursting at the seams
Abnaa Al-Khata' Al-Romansi (Sons of a Romantic Mistake), Yasser Shaaban, Cairo: General Organisation for Cultural Palaces
A late beginning
Qabl wa Ba'd (Before and After), Tawfiq Abdel-Rahman, Cairo: General Organisation for Cultural Palaces (Literary Voices Series), September 2000. pp189

Solomon Schechter
The Fustat connection

A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo, The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection, Stefan C Reif, London: Curzon Press, 2000. pp277

The business of becoming a man
Imagined Masculinities, edited by Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb, London: Saqi Books, 2000. pp294

Out from the impasse?
The Arabs at the Crossroads: Political Identity and Nationalism, H. Khashan, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2000. pp168

Bahaa Taher
All we need is love
Nuqtat Al-Nour (The Point of Light), Bahaa Taher, Cairo: Al-Hilal Novels, 2001. pp238

At a glance
A shorthand guide to the month compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani
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