Syracuse Herald Journal · Syracuse, New York · 24 February 1991
CP-1991-008
Books About the Arab World
Fiction
Transcribed from the clipping
“‘Palace of Desires,’ just out in hardcover from Doubleday, is the second volume in Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy… ‘Season of Migration to the North’ and ‘The Wedding of Zein’ (Heinemann or Three Continents), both by the highly recommended Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih. ‘Cities of Salt’ (Vintage), a recent novel by Abdel Rahman Munif… ‘Woman at Point Zero’ (Zed Press), and two other novels, all by Egyptian feminist Nawal al Saadawi… ‘Men in the Sun’ and ‘Palestine’s Children’ (both Three Continents), both by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. ‘Wild Thorns’ (Interlink), by Sahar Khalifeh, a Palestinian woman. ‘Days of Dust’ (Three Continents), by the Lebanese novelist Halim Barakat. ‘Secret Life of Saeed the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist’ (Readers International), by the Palestinian writer Emile Habiby. ‘Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing’ (Indiana University Press), an anthology mixing fiction and non-fiction, edited by Margo Badran and Miriam Cooke.”
Context added by this archive
Nineteen years after five American papers reported his killing as the death of a militant, a guerrilla chief and a terrorist leader, Ghassan Kanafani is on a books page in Syracuse as “Palestinian writer.” Emile Habiby is “the Palestinian writer.” Sahar Khalifeh, who has three clippings of her own in this archive, is “a Palestinian woman.”
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"Books About the Arab World," Syracuse Herald Journal, 24 February 1991. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1991-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1991-008
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