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June 2002

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Summer Reading: with the long hot days of summer to fill before us, Al-Ahram Weekly selects some notable titles from recent Arab fiction

Questions of exile and memory
Love in Exile, Bahaa Taher, trans. Farouk Abdel-Wahab, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. pp277

I must say what I've seen, You must publish it
An extract from Love in Exile

A house falls apart
'Imarat Yacqoubian (The Yacquoubian Building), Alaa El-Aswani, Cairo: Miret, 2002. pp348

Nineties, nicotine and forgetfulness
-Qanoun Al-Wiratha (Law of Inheritance), Yasser Abdel-Latif, Cairo:Miret for Publication and Information, 2002. pp87;
-An Tara Alaan (To See Now), Muntaser El-Qaffash, Cairo: Dar Sahrqiat, 2002. pp119

Through the gates of memory
La Porte du soleil (Gate of the Sun), Elias Khoury, trans. Rania Samara, Paris: Actes Sud/ Le Monde diplomatique, 2002. pp630

From Cairo to Delhi
Circles of Silence: An Indian Love Story, Preeti Singh, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2001.pp503

Hussein's book of consolation
The Days, Taha Hussein, Translated by EH Paxton, Hilary Wayment and Kenneth Cragg, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001. pp406

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

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