Ellis Sharp: Twenty-Twenty
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Twenty-Twenty. This is a diary, influenced by Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage (Anniversaries), which he reads and comments on, in the early part…
Akram Musallam: اسيرة العقرب الذي يتصبب عرقا (The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion)
The latest addition to my website is Akram Musallam's اسيرة العقرب الذي يتصبب عرقا (The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion). Our unnamed narrator, clearly based on the author, had a…
Sahar Khalifeh : الأول : رواية (My First and Only Love)
The latest addition to my website is Sahar Khalifeh 's الأول : رواية (My First and Only Love). Our heroine is Nidal. The novel starts during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt…
Sonia Nimr: الاتمرتبة الأولى في جائزة الاتصالات (Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands)
The latest addition to my website is Sonia Nimr's الاتمرتبة الأولى في جائزة الاتصالات (Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands). Our narrator/heroine is Qamar. Her father lived in a remote Palestinian…
Ibtisam Azem: وسفر الاختفاء (The Book of Disappearance)
The latest addition to my website is Ibtisam Azem's وسفر الاختفاء (The Book of Disappearance). The book is set primarily in Jaffa. Alaa is a Palestinian who works as a…
Shatila Stories
The latest addition to my website is Shatila Stories, a collaborative novel, set up by Peirene Press and written entirely by Palestinian and Syrian refuges in the Shatila refugee camp…
Liana Badr: رج عين المرآة (Eye of the Mirror)
The latest addition to my website is Liana Badr's رج عين المرآة (Eye of the Mirror). This novel is set in the Tal el-Zaatar refugee camp in the mid-1970s and…
Ghassan Zaqtan: وصف الماضيالمرآة (Describing the Past)
The latest addition to my website is Ghassan Zaqtan's Ghassan Zaqtan: وصف الماضيالمرآة (Describing the Past). This is a wonderful novel of memory and death and sensuality, set primarily in…
Emile Habiby: فاء سعيد أبي النحس (The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)
The latest addition to my website is Emile Habiby's فاء سعيد أبي النحس (The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist). The novel tells the story of Saeed,a Palestinian man, who…