Desertion Review
I’ve been raving about Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel, Desertion for quite a while on this blog, so it was a delight to see it get a nice write up in the San Francisco Chronicle.
I’ve been raving about Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel, Desertion for quite a while on this blog, so it was a delight to see it get a nice write up in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Scostman has a lengthy profile of Edinburgh-based Sudanese writer and inaugural Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela, whose new novel Minaret comes out here in the States in October. Yes, the inevitable comparison to Zadie Smith is made. (Reporters seem unable to avoid it whenever they see a black or mixed-race writer.)
E.L. Doctorow’s City of God has been translated into Persian.
AK Comics, the Egyptian company that started a series of comic books on Mid-East superheroes was present at Comic-Con, and drew some attention from convention goers.
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Mid-East Superheroes