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The Year of Magical Happening
The Dissenters, Emissaries; Mutanabbi II & Crocodiles III
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Fire and Light
A Fragment on, among others, Bonaparte, Sheikh Imam and Youssef Chahine
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The Strange Case of the Novelist from Egypt
This essay, which I feel is among my most articulate statements about contemporary Arabic literature, appeared on the Kenyon Review Blog ten years ago…
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Fire and Light
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The Strange Case of the Novelist from Egypt
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I write like a lover, I write like one dead
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Paradise: An Autobiography
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A Review, a Gallery, and an Expletive
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Paradise: An Autobiography
My apologies if you have read this before. It is one of my favorite things of mine in English, and I am channelling its energy for what I have been…
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A Muslim Medley, and a Markaz Review Conversation
My current project is a series of essays on the theme of identity, and since I want to push things forward, at least in my own mind, I'm sharing five…
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Nabokov, Murakami, the Beats – and Robert Beshara
Rakha’s narrators are all unreliable, winking at the reader to confuse them. But it is through that confusion that the reader can gain access to a…
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A Review, a Gallery, and an Expletive
This is a disturbing book about torture, longing … and what happens when aliens are quietly manipulating your life
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Holodeck 1764
The opening of my London Magazine essay on translating Leo Damrosch’s The Club to Arabic, to appear in the upcoming June/July issue
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My Heart on the Table
Twenty-five Years Later! My Poem, Written in April 1998, Translated by Robin Moger (and Read by Me in the Original Arabic) in 2021…
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Conversation on Radio AlHara – and Spotify
With Yumna Kassab, Guy Ganaratne, and Alexander Booth …
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Language of Loss
Language of Loss
“The only language of loss left in the world is Arabic.” – Agha Shahid Ali
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