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Another Shore: Articles on Arab Short Stories
This book is not a critical study, but rather an attempt by the author, Dr. Lina Abdul Rahman, to form a literary reading of the textual material that comprises the book. She affirms, “I do not hide the fact that I have drawn upon many critical insights that help me crystallize and complete my vision in capturing the aesthetic values and artistic peculiarities in analyzing the short stories and narratives discussed.” The author continues, “Creativity and excellence in short stories…
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The Pleasure of Narrative and Tales: Shedding Light on Global Novels
Writing about novels from the other side of the world carries within it an experience of wandering and travel, discovering new geographies, histories, and unfamiliar customs. It involves the enjoyment of real and fictional tales about spirits dwelling beside a river making its way through vast fields, or an old fortune-teller singing for passers-by and reading their destinies. With each novel comes a different experience, and a long life that reveals its secrets behind the lines. When Gabriel Garcia…
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Circuits of Tales: Articles on Arab Novels
These diverse readings in Arab novels were carefully selected by the author from several articles she wrote in the past years. The purpose was not solely to provide targeted literary criticism for specialized literature readers, but rather to offer a cultural and artistic reading and reveal the aesthetic value of the discussed novels. Alongside critiquing any structural flaws based on craftsmanship or contrivance, the aim was to engage readers who have fallen in love with the novel, enticed by…
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Another Perspective: The Novelist, Imagination, and Narrative
Critical readings are formed to offer their vision of a collection of novels, where the social and psychological realities of individuals intertwine as they navigate their destinies and make choices that align with the temporal nature of each narrative. At the same time, it is impossible to assign definitive interpretations to any creative text because good and innovative writing derives its vitality from the diversity of perspectives and interpretations among different researchers. This is because we are living in…
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Eastern Illusions – Short Stories
The stories in the collection “Eastern Illusions” depict a lost city and the suffering of women in search of existence under the sun, in a crumbling and lost world. These are the tragic stories of the Lebanese civil war, with its catastrophic consequences paid for by women, as is the case in every war. The author captures the emptiness of the lives of her story’s heroines, real women who aspire to learn, to be liberated, to work, and to…
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The Dead Don’t Lie – Short Stories
The stories in this collection draw from the fragmented reality of their characters, from anxiety, alienation, and human suffering, from the loss of tranquility in a world filled with noise and chatter, from a constant search for something lost with no hope of finding it, from an incomplete tremor and characters rebelling against their author, and unbelievable prophecies. These stories are brimming with the idea of searching for an elusive truth and uncovering it in some corner of this…
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Gardens of Mirage (Novel)
“There are steps between myself and I that I cannot walk… Steps where I stand on my own ground to closely observe my feelings, those that are still throbbing, those that died and withered, and those that groan… Steps… steps… I can’t cross them… I feel impotent and paralyzed… I can’t knock on the door of the soul… I can’t enter… wander… speak out loud. I stand before a massive iron door with a high handle my hand cannot reach……
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The novel) ) A Song for Marguerit)
This novel spins between two worlds, the story of “Zainab”, the young girl who escapes from the atmosphere of the 2006 Beirut war to scattered papers and digital files hidden in her computer, to tell the story of the French writer Marguerite Duras, in her peculiar love story with Yann Andrea, a young man who is many years her junior. In an odd, unclear relationship, and a young woman living the war atmosphere in another era, she devotes her…
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The Cairo Snow (Novel)
In her novel “The Cairo Snow,” Abdelrahman tells us the story of a woman, or rather two women, or better yet, the story of three women: Suleiman, Nourjahan, and Bushra. Three women living within the body of one woman. They are three, yet they are all one. One woman living in the present with two pasts residing within her, three lives in one present, struggling under the weight of scenes retrieved from her spiritual memory. In addition to the philosophical…
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Touch (Novel)
In her novel “Touch”, Lana Abdulrahman delves into the pervasive anxiety of fear of madness. The protagonist, “Nada”, is afraid that insanity might be a hereditary trait in her family. Therefore, she fears becoming a victim of the same path. This anxiety haunts her through nightmares and frightening dreams. She escapes from them into the vast space of the internet, creating a blog where she writes her dreams, desires, and worries. The mad aunt, the absence of her mother and…
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