 Two
Appreciations of Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt's Literary Giant
Remembering Mahfouz: 1911-2006 — Mehnaz M. Afridi
Naguib
Mahfouz: The Death of a Literary Giant — David Shasha
Al-Ahram
Weekly's Special Report on Mahfouz
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Theatre
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Heather
Raffo's "Aha Moment"
The playwright
and actor of the one-woman show, "9 Parts of Desire",
recounts her awakening as an Iraqi-American in "O"
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Satire
& Opinion
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 This
week's cartoon by Khalil Bendib spoofs the animosity between
Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who may after all be birds of
a feather.
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Reading the Holocaust
Cartoons in Tehran
Roya Hakakian, author of the memoir Journey from
the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary
Iran, comments in the New York Times.
Click here
for story.
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contemporary Mideast history
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Gate
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by Elias
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September's
Main Attractions
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October
21 • Worldbeat Concert
26 • Rashid Khalidi in L.A.
27 • Sultans of Satire 8
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November
2
• Night in Algeria
15 • Persian Girls
24 • Sultans of Satire 9
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December
10
• Levantine 5th Anniversary Grand Gala Benefit Show
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