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The Mother and the Motherland in Arab Literature


Posted by tasnim on 25 Apr 2013 / 0 Comments
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Moroccan novelist Mohammed Berrada’s Lu’bat al Nisyan (The Game of Forgetting, 1987) begins with “In the Beginning was the Mother.”   The main character in the novel, Hadi, is a leftist journalist suffering from a midlife crisis, disillusioned on the communal level by the deteriorating political situation in Morocco, and devastated on a personal level […]

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Abeer Esber: For Wrong Reasons, Easier for Arab Women to Publish


Posted by Guest Contributor on 16 Feb 2010 / 0 Comments
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This was written by M. Lynx Qualey and originally appeared at Arabic Literature (In English). After all the kerfuffle about how many Arabic Booker nominees use the girls’ room instead of the boys’ (and how this is proof of literary discrimination), I appreciate Syrian author Abeer Esber, writing on Qantara: “In my view, this gender […]

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