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Today on the phone,first time in thirty years,my friend didn’t know me.Who? Where do you live?Where did we meet?She’s been slipping for a while.I wonder if that’s how God feelsab…
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- Gaza Once in a tiny stripdark holes swallowed heartsand one child told anotherwithdraw your breathwhenever the night wind…
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Roger Allen was the first person to obtain a doctorate in modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford. After obtaining his DPhil, he joined…
Five or six years ago, I was reading Ihsan Abdel Quddous (1919–1990) with my Arabic teacher and thought of writing an article about him in English,…
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and…
The University of Oklahoma’s Center for Middle East Studies; Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and World Literature…
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