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From Damascus to Beirut: Contested Cities in Arab Writing ...

Hazem Fadel

Ouyang makes passing references to Khoury and Kanafani; nonetheless, both her studies have the work of Naguib Mahfouz at their centre.2 In Contemporary Arabic Fiction: Innovation from Rama to Yalu, Fabio Caiani anticipates a break ...

Mortal Designs: A Novel

Reem Bassiouney

At its heart Mortal Designs is a love triangle between Asmaa, a peasant woman of single-minded ambition, determined to ascend through Egypt's rigid class hierarchy; Hazem, a celebrated architect and aesthete, scion of the privileged class; ...