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Tag: Middle East

Review: What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra Al-Maqtari (translated by Sawad Hussain)

A record of the atrocities of war in Yemen.

Journalism, Middle East, Nonfiction, War, Yemen

Review: The Lovers by Yumna Kassab

Is love a neutral force, or inherently exploitative?

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Lebanon, Middle East, Novel

Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr

A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.

Arabic writing, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, Islam, Lebanon, LGBTIQ, Middle East, Novel, queer, Sydney, Turkey

Review: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr

The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.

Arabic writing, Australian, Colonialism, Middle East, Poetry
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