Apartheid or transfer
How to End the War of 1948, Tanya Rheinhart, Seven Stories Press, 2002. pp279

Postmarked Iraq
Inaam Kachachi, Paroles d'Irakiennes: Le drame irakien écrit par des femmes (Iraqis Speak: The Iraqi Drama in Women's Writing). Paris: Le Serpent à Plumes, 2003. pp213.

Subject to investigation
Maqtal Fakhreddin (The Killing of Fakhreddin), Ezzeddin Shukri, Cairo: Samizdat, 1995. pp231

The background to further strife?
The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation, Richard Fletcher. London: Penguin and Allen Lane, 2002. pp 183

Anna's Egypt
Anna's Egypt: An Artist's Journey, Anna Boghiguian, Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003. pp135

Shakespeare from the margins
Ismail Serageldin, The Modernity of Shakespeare, trans. Naglaa Abu Agag, Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture, 2002.

At a glance
A shorthand guide to recent publications compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani