Sahar Hamouda, Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem, London: Garnet Publishing Ltd, January 2010
Despite its title, Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem is no fairy tale. It offers no simple answers and provides no happy ending. And neither does it rehash (...)
In 1729 the satirist Jonathan Swift presented his Modest Proposal for solving the problem of starvation in Ireland under British rule. In order to prevent the children of poor people from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making (...)
It's seven years today since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, Amira Nowaira* investigates some fictional representations of the events
Like other human tragedies of greater or lesser magnitude, the 9/11 events seven years ago produced (...)
Zubaida's Window, Iqbal Al-Qazwini, trans. Azza El-Kholy & Amira Nowaira, New York: Feminist Press, 2008.
Iqbal Al-Qazwini's novel Mamarat al-Sekoun (Passages of Silence), an English translation of which has recently appeared under the title (...)
Dutch politician Geert Wilders's film Fitna is an alarming new episode in the 'clash of civilisations,' this time fomented in cyberspace, writes Amira Nowaira*
A new global war has broken out. But this war is not taking place in any geographical or (...)
