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12 - 18 July 2001
Issue No.542
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July 2001

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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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Murderers!Souvenirs of the land to come
Le Bien des absents (Absentees' Property) Elias Sanbar, Paris: Actes Sud, 2001. pp141

Bagdad in the sixtiesDeath on asphalt
The Long Way Back, Fuad Al-Takarli, translated by Catherine Cobham, Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001. pp379

There's no place like home
Awraq Al-Nargis (The Narcissus Papers), Sumaya Ramadan, Cairo: Sharqiyat, 2001. pp117; Ashgar Qalila 'Ind Al-Munhana (A Few Trees where the Road Curves), Nemat El-Beheiri, Cairo: Riwayat Al-Hilal, December 2000. pp166

Leila AboulelaHalal fiction
Coloured Lights, Leila Aboulela, Edinburgh: Polygon, 2001. pp196
The Translator, Leila Aboulela, Edinburgh: Polygon, 1999. pp184

Egyptian womenChanging views of Ancient Egyptian women
Women in Ancient Egypt, Gay Robins, London: British Museum Press. First published 1993. Reprinted 1996, 1998 & 2001. pp205

Vital presence
Hayah Adiya (Ordinary Life), Mohamed Saleh, Cairo: General Organisation for Cultural Palaces, Aswat Adabiya (Literary Voices), 2001. pp85

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