BULAQ | بولاق
By Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey
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BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A Story of Jordanian Literature
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Unlocking Palestine: Sara Yasin on editing The Key
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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From the Archives: Walking Through Fire with Nawal El Saadawi
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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From the Archives: Love and its Discontents
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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From the Archives: Not Yet Defeated
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Listening to Voices with Hoda Barakat
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The Surprisingly Rich Arabic Literary Culture in 17th and 18th Century Southeast Asia
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Inji Efflatoun, An Egyptian Artist Who Traced Her Own Path
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Sonallah Ibrahim, The Egyptian Novelist Who Captured History
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Mohamed Choukri's Brutal Honesty
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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A Young Poet in Gaza, Writing in the Shadow of Death
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May 22, 2025 |
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Looking In the Mirror: Arab Women’s Memoirs with Khaled Mansour
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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‘One Day,’ with Omar El Akkad
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Listening to Syria with Alia Malek
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Inside The World of Lebanese Comics with Rawand Issa
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Give and Take
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Arabic culture and literature in Spain
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Flash Fiction Winner Karima Ahdad
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Reem Bassiouney: Writing Historical Fiction is like “Stringing Pearls”
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Deena Mohamed’s Graphic Novel Asks: What If Your Wish Came True?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Etel Adnan: “I Write What I See, Paint What I Am”
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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This Moment
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May 02, 2024 |
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Ghassan Kanafani: Defiance on Every Page
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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WITH GAZA
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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On Translating Arabic Literature with Robin Moger
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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A Crime at the End of the Sahara
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Remembering Hamdi Abu Golayyel
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Inside The World of Lebanese Comics with Rawand Issa
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Sawad Hussain’s Translation Advice
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May 11, 2023 |
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Looking Back From Iraq
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Love and its Discontents
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Should You Turn Down That Literary Award?
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Getting Your Wish
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Yasmin El-Rifae’s Radius
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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1001 Nights: A Never Ending Story
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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End of Summer Reading
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Interesting Case of a Saudi Novel
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Aftershocks
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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The Book of Travels
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Stories Just Sprout Inside You
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Poems from Palestine
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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87+ Bonus: Book Quiz
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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‘Kids Take Over!’: On Sonia Nimr’s Thunderbird
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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86+ Bonus: Book Quiz
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May 26, 2022 |
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‘Hot Maroc’: An Internet Troll Novel
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May 19, 2022 |
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85+ Bonuz: Book Quiz
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May 12, 2022 |
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Of Human Bondage: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s ‘Paradise’
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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84+ Bonus: Book Quiz
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Reading Life Backwards: Omani Novelist Jokha Alharthi
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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83+Bonus: Book Quiz
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Mona Kareem on Translation as Kidnapping
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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82+Bonus: Book Quiz
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Stealing, Drug-dealing, & the Epic of Egyptian Migration
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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81+ Bonus: Book Quiz
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Naguib Mahfouz's Banned Book
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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80+ Bonus: Book Quiz
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Just Different: Moroccan writer Malika Moustadraf
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Not Yet Defeated
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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We Read Ramallah
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Midnight in Cairo
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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A Thousand And One Dreams
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Best of 2021
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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The Book of Travels
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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So Kill Them Back!
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Poems from Palestine
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Walking Through Fire: A Look Back at Nawal El Saadawi
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Warda: Diary of a Revolutionary
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Football Writing: The Passion and the Provocation
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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What You May Have Missed
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Iman Mersal: Books You Need To Read & Need to Write
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Impostures: A Rogue’s Many Tales
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Driss Chraibi’s Portrait of an Angry Young Man
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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A Conversation in Cairo About Making Art Under Pressure
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Work-Lit Balance
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Karl Sharro Only Takes Soccer Seriously
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May 20, 2021 |
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The Interesting Case of a Saudi Novel
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May 06, 2021 |
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Aftershocks
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Women In Love and In Lust
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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We Read Ramallah
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Reading and Writing Behind Bars
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Midnight in Cairo
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Sex & Second Chances
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Cairo Modern: The Unstable City
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Getting Away With Murder
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Kitchen Talk
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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A Thousand And One Dreams
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Paranormal
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Book Club: Season of Migration to the North
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Love and Silence: Rediscovering Enayat El Zayat
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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The Pillar of Salt
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Revolt Against the Sun
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Trailer: Fall 2020 Season of BULAQ
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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The Cat Is Out of The Bag
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Ten out of Ten
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Women in Translation: The Frightened Ones
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Women in Translation: Reporting While Arab and Female
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Talking Shit
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Murder, They Wrote
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Widows, Conmen and Crimes
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Tazmamart
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Kitchen Talk
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Locked-In Lit
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May 21, 2020 |
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Cold Trail
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May 07, 2020 |
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Tight Spaces
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Sentence to Hope
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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A Woman Shaped by Fear
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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The Shape of Cairo
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Bulaq: trailer
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Little Magazines
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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The Not So Simple Past
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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The Elephant Is The Room
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Writing to Remember
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Work-Lit Balance
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Top Five
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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The Revolution While Dreaming
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Writers Are Not Magic
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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"Insufficiently Westernized"
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Disappearing Palestinians
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Out of Egypt
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Trash Talk
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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Invisibility
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Jun 23, 2019 |
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Our Women on the Ground
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Work-lit Balance
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May 19, 2019 |
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This Takes the Prize
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May 06, 2019 |
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The case of Alaa al-Aswany
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Apr 07, 2019 |
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Not Quite On The Same Page
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Mar 17, 2019 |
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Sentenced to Hope
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Where Do I Start?
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Bad Parents
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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Lists!
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Writing To Remember
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Poems That Cross Language and Time
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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Returns And Beginnings
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Nov 04, 2018 |
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Interview with Ganzeer
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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Stolen in Translation
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Sep 23, 2018 |
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Back To School
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Sep 09, 2018 |
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Is It a Beach Book?
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Jul 14, 2018 |
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"Neo-Assyrian Trolls"
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Jul 01, 2018 |
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Pick Your Team
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Jun 16, 2018 |
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Alexandria When?
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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Less Cute and Safe
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May 18, 2018 |
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Cancel Everything
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May 06, 2018 |
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All Over The Map
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Stillborn in Egypt, Fractured in Palestine
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Mar 31, 2018 |
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Noir Is The New Black
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Mar 18, 2018 |
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On Good Bad Reviews
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Mar 03, 2018 |
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Escape Acts
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Feb 17, 2018 |
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Soft Power
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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Court Jesters and Black Mirrors
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Jan 20, 2018 |
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Sacred Cows
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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No Happy Endings
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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Palestinian literature: regrets, tough choices and teen adventures
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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Know Your Audience
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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Belonging to Oneself
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Nov 08, 2017 |