Egyptian Archives - BookDragon

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed, translated by Deena Mohamed [in Booklist]

20 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Egyptian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Egyptian artist and writer Deena Mohamed deservedly won the Best Graphic Novel and the Grand Prize at the 2017 Cairo Comix Festival for Shubeik Lubeik, the title explained as “a fairy tale rhyme that means ‘your wish is my command’ in Arabic.” Mohamed herself...

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd [in Booklist]

21 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Egyptian, Fiction, Jewish, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW To begin at the end seems most fitting: “If Jesus actually did have a wife ...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses

18 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Egyptian, European, Indian, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Nonfiction, Persian, Turkish, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014

Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave by Shyima Hall with Lisa Wysocky

26 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Egyptian, Egyptian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

"If this book leads to even a single rescue, then my time in bondage was worth it," Shyima Hall writes in the penultimate paragraph in the final chapter of her new memoir. That "time in bondage" she refers to is four long years during which...

Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar

23 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Audio, British, Egyptian, European, Fiction, Middle Eastern

Hisham Matar's second novel (following his much-lauded, substantially-awarded debut, In the Country of Men) reads like a fast-moving dream, events jarringly, jaggedly forced together, and yet somehow managing to maintain a clear, thoughtful narrative. Narrator Steve West's methodically-paced, calmly-controlled voice imbues Matar's haunting story with dignity...

Distant View of a Minaret by Alifa Rifaat, translated by Denys Johnson-Davis

23 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Egyptian, Fiction, Short Stories, Translation

Given the monumental (continuous) changes post-Arab Spring, my recent (ongoing) search for women’s voices before and after led me to an unusual writer who defies many expectations of what it means to be internationally literary: Alifa Rifaat lives and works in a traditional Egyptian Muslim...

Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books by Susan L. Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya, illustrated by Susan L. Roth

04 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Egyptian, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Surely this deserves some sort of supreme irony award: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's recently ousted president, was one of the leading champions of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, completed in 2002 where the greatest library of the ancient world – the original Library of Alexandria – once stood some 2300 years ago....

The Revolution Happened and You Didn’t Call Me by Maged Zaher

08 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Egyptian, Egyptian American, Poetry

For those of you who know me, this is no surprise: poetry is my literary Achilles' heel. But my contrary nature occasionally gets brave enough to try again, and the few times I eke out some level of comprehension, you'll read about it here. [Any...

The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames

21 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Egyptian, European, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction

Cleopatra: "Serpent of the Nile" by Mary Fisk Pack, illustrated by Peter Malone Agrippina: "Atrocious and Ferocious" by Shirin Yim Bridges, illustrated by Peter Malone Mary Tudor: "Bloody Mary" by Gretchen Maurer, illustrated by Peter Malone Catherine de' Medici: "The Black Queen" by Janie Havemeyer, illustrated by Peter Malone Marie...

Gazelle Tracks by Miral Al-Tahawy, translated by Anthony Calderbank

31 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Egyptian, Fiction, Translation

The slim, startling volume begins with an aged, family photograph which essentially contains the contents of the pages that follow ...

Maryam’s Maze by Mansoura Ez Eldin, translated by Paul Starkey

23 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Egyptian, Fiction, Translation

Here I go again starting with a book backwards … in the ending “Translator’s Note,” Paul Starkey writes, “Readers of Maryam’s Maze who are already familiar with the author’s short stories will quickly feel themselves at home in this more extended work, which again reveals...

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

07 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Egyptian, Fiction

If, like me, you don't like to know the whole story before you read the book (!!), then skip the family tree in these opening pages. Don't even glance at it. You can always go back to it after. Ahdaf Soueif's 1999 Booker Prize shortlister (J. M. Coetzee took...

The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses by Shirin Yim Bridges, illustrated by Albert Nguyen

21 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Egyptian, European, Indian, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Persian, Turkish

Hatshepsut of Egypt Artemisia of Caria Sorghaghtani of Mongolia Qutlugh Terkan Khatun of Kirman Isabella of Castile Nur Jahan of India Happy birthday to the world's most famous queen (still!) who turns 85 today, making her son the oldest prince-waiting-to-be-king in British history. Next week, on April 29, Queen E2 will...

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, translated by Sherif Hatata

03 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Egyptian, Fiction, Translation

Writer/playwright/activist/psychiatrist Nawal El Saadawi is one of those women who seem to scare men – especially those who purport to have something called 'authority.' She's been fired, banned, accused, threatened, imprisoned because of what is ultimately her simple belief that all women are worthy human beings...

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