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'Feelings Out of the Law' by Rola Ghanem

4 years ago
By: Wasan Abu-Baker* Dr. Rola Ghanem is a Palestinian contemporary novelist, from the city of Tulkarem. Her short story, Feelings Out of the Law, is a beautiful piece that creatively covers a significance topic within Palestinian society.  She is brave to bring to light social issues found in society which challenge traditions, customs, and values […]
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The Present Absentees, The Suffering of Palestinians living within the Green Line, Rola Ghanem’s (The Green Line)

4 years ago
By: Wasan Abu-Baker   Dr. Rola Ghanem is a Palestinian novelist from the city of Tulkarem, she tells the story of her father through this novel which resembles the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation and reveals the struggle of generations. In the novel, she highlighted the importance of education and spoke about the suffering […]
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BOOK REVIEW – 'Tower of the Stork' by Dima Al Samman

4 years ago
Reviewed by: Wasan Abu-Baker*   Dima Al Samman, is a contemporary Jerusalemite Palestinian novelist. She was born and raised in ancient Jerusalem and earned her bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Birzeit University.  She received a High Diploma in Television Direction and is currently the Director General of the Palestinian Ministry of Education.  Writing about Jerusalem […]
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My New Novel, BEAR

4 years ago
by Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com), 2 April 2018   I am happy to announce to interested readers the publication of my new novel, BEAR. Some may recall from my blog a few years back the publication of my first novel: “Breaking Faith: a novel of espionage and an American’s crisis of conscience in Pakistan”.  I […]
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BOOK REVIEW – After the Dream… Comes the Nightmare!

5 years ago
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD   Used books are one of my favourite pastimes here in Egypt and one of the few things that keep you human in these compressed times and, as luck would have, I was drawn to the front cover of an oldish novel from the 1980s. After the Dream by Maisie […]
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Trying my hand at a novel on the Middle East

8 years ago
By Graham E. Fuller  for http://grahamefuller.com/ -   I remember some 20 years ago, while writing a RAND study on Sudan, I spent a number of hours with the fascinating and distinguished former Foreign Minister of Sudan, Francis Deng. He is actually from southern Sudan, when it was still part of a unified Sudanese state at […]
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