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Shakespeare in Swahililand by Edward Wilson-Lee
epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Edward Wilson-Lee

MATHU: … Sir, I am afraid of this [legislation] because I do not want the Government and this legislature to be accused of being like Shakespeare’s Shylock, the Jew, and ...
( Category: Shakespeare May 21,2017 )
Adama by al-Hamad Turki; Bray Robin;
epub |eng | | Author:al-Hamad, Turki; Bray, Robin;

33 Hisham informed Fahd of Adnan’s agreement, and at the next meeting of the cell Fahd gave him a password to convey to Adnan: ‘Hauran’s a great place’. At the ...
( Category: African May 21,2017 )
Syria Speaks by Malu Halasa
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Malu Halasa [Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud]

Yazbek’s narrative brims with stark images. One, for example, describes security forces attacking a funeral, shooting and critically injuring three pallbearers, causing the mourners to flee, leaving the coffin alone ...
( Category: African August 6,2016 )
One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan al-Shaykh
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Hanan al-Shaykh

The Mistress of the House’s Tale y case is so strange, and my tale so bizarre, that if I engraved it with needles at the corner of my eye, it ...
( Category: African April 5,2015 )
Living in Hope and History by Nadine Gordimer
epub |eng | 1999-03-03 | Author:Nadine Gordimer

HEROES AND VILLAINS Pascale, my French granddaughter, aged four and enraged at not getting her own way, would shriek at her mother, ‘Vilaine!’ It seems to me there’s something both ...
( Category: African March 4,2015 )
Two Women in One by Nawal El Saadawi
epub, mobi | | | Author:Nawal El Saadawi

Back in her bed that night, she felt that what had happened was only a dream. If not a dream, then an accident that had befallen her without her willing ...
( Category: African December 27,2014 )
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Mahmoud Darwish [Mahmoud Darwish]

IV Around you there was no time for sentimental talk. You kneaded all the noontide with basil. You baked The cockscomb for the sumac. I know what ruins your heart, ...
( Category: African November 30,2014 )
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
epub |eng | | Author:Mahmoud Darwish

XII ···· You love sleep, a swooning wakefulness, like your own situation. Sleep is an overlord and sovereign. When asleep, you are your own overlord and sovereign. Alive, but without ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 30,2014 )

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