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SEX AND THE CITADEL by Shereen El Feki

December 23, 2013

SEXUAL POLITICS IN the Arab world, presented in depth (via years of interviews), with compassion, with wit. B PLUS

SEX AND THE CITADEL
Pantheon
2013

Grade: B PLUS

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AN ARAB MELANCHOLIA, by Abdellah Taïa

November 6, 2012

LOVELY, SPARE PROSE tells the story of a gay Moroccan man wrestling with the ideas of Arab identity, culture.

Grade: B PLUS

AN ARAB MELANCHOLIA
Semiotext(e)/Smart Art
2012

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REVOLUTION 2.0, by Wael Ghonim

May 15, 2012

INSIDE THE INTERNET activism that helped to spark the Arab Spring protests, with one of its early organizers.

Grade: SOLID B

REVOLUTION 2.0: THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE PEOPLE IN POWER
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012

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