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Cairo Review of Books
Cairo Review of Books is a monthly supplement issued by Al-Ahram Weekly and edited by Mona Anis. Review copies should be addressed to: Mona Anis, Al-Ahram Weekly, Al-Ahram Newspaper Building, Galaa St., Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt. Contributions and letters on subjects raised in the supplement should be sent to m.anis@ahram.org.eg or faxed to +202 578 6089." Letters to the editor

Without kid gloves

al-Jama'a al-wataniyya: al-'uzla wa al-indimaj (The National Group: Isolation and Integration), Tariq al-Bishri, Cairo: Kitab al-hilal, April 2005. pp286

Maverick TV station that will not be silent

Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World, Hugh Miles, London: Abacus, 2005. pp438

Iraq: Views from Paris

-Irak: Histoire d'un désastre (Iraq: History of a Disaster), Ignacio Ramonet, Paris: Galilée, 2005. pp199; -Le Moyen-Orient à l'épreuve de l'Irak (The Middle East and the Challenge of Iraq), Nawaf Salem, ed., Paris: Actes sud, 2005. pp172

Horus incarnate

al-Zahf al-muqaddas (The Holy March), Sherif Younis, Cairo: Dar Merit, 2005. pp208

Writers' reading

With the hot days of summer upon us, writers and critics share their reading lists with the Cairo Review of Books

Metaphors for belatedness

-Musiqa al-mall (Mall Music), Mahmoud El-Wardani, Cairo: al-Hilal Novels, 2005. pp188 -Ashiq al-hay (Lover of the County), Youssef Abu Raya, Cairo: al-Hilal Novels, 2005. pp191

The ordinary prose of life

Sayidi wa habibi (My Master and My Lover), Hoda Barakat, Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 2005. pp283

National dramas of television

Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt, Lila Abu-Lughod, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp319

A street artist named Geerdts

Yahia Marrakech (Long Live Marrakesh), Hans Werner Geerdts, Marrakesh: Les Infréquentables, 2005. pp93

At a glance

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