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Learning English
A Modern Arabic Novel from Lebanon
by Rachid Al-Daif
No matter how hard Rachid tries to recreate himself, to become educated and wordly – to ‘learn English’ – it is impossible for this hip Beiruti with his cell phone and high-speed internet to sever the connection to his past in the Lebanese village of Zgharta, know for its ‘tough guys’ and old-fashioned clan mentality.
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2009-10-01
9781906697211
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B as in Beirut
A Modern Arabic Novel from Lebanon
by Iman Humaydan Younes
The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war.
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2009-10-01
9781906697204
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Cities Without Palms
by Tarek Eltayeb
The debut novel from a rising Sudanese writer, 'Cities Without Palms' tells the tale of young man who leaves his native village in Sudan and sets out alone to seek work in the city, in order to save his mother and two sisters from famine and disease.
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2009-06-01
978-1-906697-12-9
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