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Half fiction, half autiobiography, Spectres tells the tale of two female academics in Egypt, Shagar Abdel Ghaffar and Radwa Ashour, both born on the same day in opposite ends of Cairo. Flitting back and forth between the women’s often times converging, often times dividing narratives, Ashour’s novel masterfully depicts the “spectres” that fill these women’s lives, from the personal to public, including the massacre of Deir Yassan and the violent conflicts in modern Egyptian history. Daring and complex, Spectres reveals the individual and cultural ghosts that haunt this world.

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5 Most Indispensable Books on the Middle East

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5 Most Indispensable Books on the Middle East

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1. The American Granddaughter, Inaam Kachachi
2. The Arch and the Butterfly, Mohammed Achari
3. The Dove’s Necklace, Raja Alem
4. A Land Without Jasmine, Wajdi Al-Ahdal
5. Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi

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Middle East themes of these texts include family life, Islam and women, the impact of war, education, wealth and poverty, class and ethnic differences, the relation of East and West, and so on.

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Liza of Lambeth was the first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, then a working-class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth.

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Jesus shares the parable with his disciples, the Pharisees and others.

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Also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father is one of the parablesof Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32.

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A classical Arabic poet, and the foremost representative of the modern (muhdath) poetry that developed during the first years of Abbasid Caliphate.[3] He also entered the folkloric tradition, appearing several times in One Thousand and One Nights.