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to +202 578 6089 A long farewell
Sharia Emadeddin: hikayat al-Fan wal-nojoum (Emadeddin Street: stories of art and artists), Alfred Farag, Cairo: al-Hilal Book, issue no. 659, Nov. 2005. pp316
Almond vision Ka zahr al-lawz wa-ab'ad (Like Almond Flowers and Further), Mahmoud Darwish, Beirut: Riad El-Rayyes Books, Sept. 2005. pp197
A timely tribute Alif: A Journal of Comparative Poetics: Edward Said and Critical Decolonisation, No.25, edited by Ferial Ghazoul, Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo, Cairo: 2005. pp305 (English) & 259 (Arabic)
Re-opening the gates Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing, 2nd Edition, Margot Badran & Miriam Cooke, eds., Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. pp480
In the tracks of Louis Massignon Louis Massignon, le "cheikh admirable" (Louis Massignon: the "Admirable Sheikh"), Christian Destremau & Jean Moncelon, Paris: Le Capucin, 2005. pp519
Cairos of the mind
-- Teta, Mother and Me, Jean Said Makdisi, London: Saqi Books, 2005. pp320;
-- Out of Place, Edward W. Said, New York: Granta Books, 1999. pp320; Zamalek:
-- The Changing Life of a Cairo Elite 1850-1945, Chafika Soliman Hamamsy, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp392;
-- Oleander, Jacaranda, A Childhood Perceived, Penelope Lively, London: Penguin Books, 1995. pp192
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