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Fragments from the Common Ground
Anchor
October 2005
352 pages
ISBN: 1400096634
EAN: 9781400096633
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Fiction
From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist THE
MAP OF LOVE--an incisive collection of essays on Arab
identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the
mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized
world. The twenty-five years' worth of criticism and commentary
collected here have earned Ahdaf Soueif a place among our
most prominent Arab intellectuals. Clear-eyed and
passionate, and syndicated throughout the world, they are
the direct result of Soueif's own circumstances of being
"like hundreds of thousands of others: people with an Arab
or a Muslim background doing daily double-takes when faced
with their reflection in a western mirror." Whether an
account of visiting Palestine and entering the Noble
Sanctuary for the first time, an interpretation of women who
choose to wear the veil, or her post--September 11
reflections, Soueif's intelligent, fearless, deeply informed
essays embody the modern search for identity and community.
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