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Mohammed Dib: Algeria recalled
-Simorgh, Mohammed Dib, Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. pp250;
-Al-Dar Al-Kabira (The Big House); Al-Hariq (The Fire), translated from the French (La Grande maison; L'Incendie) by Sami Al-Duroubi. Cairo: Dar Al-Hilal, 2003. pp385;
-Al-Nawl (The Loom), translated from the French (Le Métier à tisser) by Sami Al-Duroubi, Cairo: Dar Al-Hilal, 2003. pp219
Supervising the supervisors
Al-Riqabah Al-Barlamaniya fi Al-Nozom Al-Siasiyah: Derasah fi Tagrobat Majlis Al-Shaab (Parliamentary Powers in Government: a Study of the Egyptian People's Assembly), Amr Hashem Rabie, Cairo: Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, August 2002. pp425
Harsh realities
Le Monde arabe: Enjeux sociaux, perspectives méditerranéennes [The Arab World: Social Stakes and Mediterranean Perspectives], Samir Amin & Ali El Kenz Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. pp186
Politics of the everyday
Al-Siyasa Aqwa min Al-Hadatha: Hikayat Misriya Mu'asira (Politics is Stronger than Modernity: Contemporary Egyptian Narratives), Dalal El-Bizri, Cairo: Mirette, 2003. pp298
Dichotomies and dilemmas
The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt and the Nile, Haggai Erlich, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. pp248
In the eye of the beholder
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 23 (2003), Literature and the Sacred, Cairo; American University in Cairo Press, 2003. pp501
At a glance
A shorthand guide to recent publications compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani
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