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Also by Ahdaf Soueif:

Mezzaterra, October 2005
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Mezzaterra
Ahdaf Soueif

Fragments from the Common Ground

Anchor
October 2005
352 pages
ISBN: 1400096634
EAN: 9781400096633
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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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