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In Qatar, Peer will be one of the few players on the women's circuit who speaks some words of Arabic, which she studied briefly in school. Religious prejudices are never an issue for her; in previous years, she teamed up in doubles with Sania Mirza, a Muslim from India...
All too often war is condensed into meaningless Arabic numerals. It becomes place names and dates. It becomes a simple sum game of territory exchanged and penalties levied. The different wars (spoken aloud like different varieties of vegetables) acquire snappy appellations—The War on Terror, Desert Storm, The...
Al Aswany's rich tableaux of everyday lives and devastating social commentary have made him a wildly popular novelist in his native Egypt and the best-selling Arab writer both in the Middle East and abroad. A tale about the lives of various Egyptians living in Chicago, the book is...
After the huge success in 2002 of his first novel, The Yacoubian Building - another scathing examination of Egypt's malaise - Al Aswany is already drawing comparisons to the nation's Nobel literature laureate, Naguib Mahfouz. Such high praise may be a little premature: Mahfouz founded modern Arabic literature and wrote...
Some of Al Aswany's popularity undoubtedly stems from his delight in smashing social taboos. Apart from the barbs against Egypt's regime that flow from his characters' mouths, the author has expressed understanding, if not actual sympathy, for Islamic extremists, and has written explicitly about issues like homosexuality and...