Al-Ahram Weekly Online   16 - 22 June 2005
Issue No. 747
Books Supplement
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Letter from the editor
by Hani Shukrallah
The state we're in
Al-Sanhuri min khilal awraqeh al-shakhsiya (Al-Sanhuri through his Private Papers), Nadia Al-Sanhuri and Tawfiq Al-Shawi eds., Cairo: Dar el-Shorouq, 2005. pp371
Edward Said: the voltage of political dramatisation
From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map, Edward Said, New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. pp323
PALESTINE: Identities to come
Figures du Palestinien, identité des origines, identité de devenir (Figures of the Palestinian: Identity of Origins and Identity to Come), Elias Sanbar, Paris: Gallimard, 2004. pp299
In the tracks of Egypt's Jews
The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora, Joel Beinin, Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp329 -Yahud misr min al-izdihar ila al-shatat (Egypt's Jews: from Prosperity to Dispersion), Mohamed Aboul-Ghar, Cairo: Dar al-Hilal, 2004. pp246
Life is but a dream
Ahlam Fatrat Al-Naqaha (The Dreams of the Recuperation Period), Naguib Mahfouz, Edited and introduced by Sanaa El-Beisi, Cairo: Dar al-Shorouk, 2005. pp118 -The Dreams, Naguib Mahfouz,Translated by Raymond Stock, Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp125
The cornflake predicament
Cabaret Suad, Mohamed Soweid, Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 2004. pp189
Trippers' TALES
The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire 1580-1720, Gerald MacLean, Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2004. pp267
Sentimental Semitism
The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West, Tom Reiss, London: Chatto and Windus, 2005. pp 433
LOVE à l'orientale
Ali and Nino, Kurban Said, London: Vintage, 2000. pp237

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