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		<title>Books We Have Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These links will take you to more information about the books we have read and their authors. You can also scroll down to read more on each book. Emerging Arab Voices: Nadwa I: A bilingual reader edited by Peter Clark Cities without Palms (Mudun bila nakhil) by Tarek Etayeb The Locust and the Bird by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=29&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Kutub Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recommend our readers continue exploring Arab Literature through the following titles: Year of the Elephant (‘Am al-fil) by Leila Abouzeid The American Granddaughter (Al-Hafida al-Amreekeya) by Inaam Kachachi Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=103&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Arab Voices: Nadwa I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, September 12th we discussed Emerging Arab Voices: Nadwa I: A bilingual reader edited by Peter Clark. This bilingual volume brings together eight pieces by a younger generation of Arab writers from Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates. The work was  produced during a 2009 Emirates Foundation International [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=622&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Arab Spring &#8211; Words without Borders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we stand with all those in struggle in Syria, Libya and the region, Kutub highly recommends all readers check out Words Without Borders&#8217; series on The Arab Spring. The Words Without Borders series documents the Arab Spring with literature from the countries of the uprisings. Following the sequence of events, they begin in North Africa with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=838&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year of the Elephant (&#8216;Am  al-fil) by Leila Abouzeid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, November 7th we will gather to discuss the Year of the Elephant (&#8216;Am al-fil) by Leila Abouzeid &#8212; which was the first work by a Moroccan woman to be translated into English (by Barbara Parmenter in 1989, three years after it was written).  The book&#8217;s full title - Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=847&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About the Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kutub’s July selection honored Kareem James Abu-Zeid, who was one of the runner-ups of 2010’s Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his work with Cities without Palms (Mudun bila nakhil) by Tarek Etayeb.  Here is more about the prize and why it is so important. The Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=810&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Palm House (bayt un-nakhiil) by Tarek Eltayeb</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the story begun in our July Kutub selection &#8211; Cities without Palms (mudun bilaa nakhiil) &#8211; Tarek Eltayeb&#8217;s second novel The Palm House (bayt un-nakhiil) has just been published in Cairo. Here we read how Hamza, the novel’s narrator once more travels to Europe, this time to Vienna, where he scrapes out a living [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=806&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cities without Palms (Mudun bila nakhil) by Tarek Etayeb &#8211; translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kutub’s July selection honored the translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid, who was one of the runner-ups of 2010’s Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his work with Cities without Palms (Mudun bila nakhil) by Tarek Etayeb.  Eltayeb&#8217;s first novel, Cities without Palms offers an uncompromising depiction of poverty in both the developed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=664&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AUC Press Annual Book, Art &amp; Music Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kutub recommends that all our Egyptian based readers (or those who are lucky enough to be able to travel there) attend the AUC Press Annual Book, Art &#38; Music Festival on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 6pm. It is taking place at the Cairo Opera House&#8217;s open air theater. For more information, click here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=802&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saddam City ( أنا الذي راء ) by Mahmoud Saeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, October 3rd we discussed Saddam City  ( أنا الذي راء )  by Mahmoud Saeed, in which Iraqi schoolteacher and novelist Mahmoud Saeed, arrested numerous times by former dictator Saddam Hussein, recalls the harrowing months he spent in prison.  Translated into English by Lake Forest College sociology professor Ahmad Sadri, Saddam City was penned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readkutub.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1198022&amp;post=672&amp;subd=readkutub&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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