CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East Series by Ghada Abdel Aal, وليد طاهر, أحمد ناجي, Ahmed Naji, Ayman Al Zorkany, Sonia Nimr

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  • I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride’s Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights (CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East #1)
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    I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride’s Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights (CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East #1)

    Ghada Abdel Aal

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2008

    The rules may differ from country to country, but the dating game is a universal constant.After years of searching for Mr. Right in living-room meetings arranged by family or friends, Ghada Abdel Aal, a young Egyptian professional, decided to take to the blogosphere to share her experiences and vent her frustrations at being young, single, and female in Egypt. Her blog, I Want to Get Married!, quickly became a hit with both men and women in the Arab world... more

  • A Bit of Air (CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East #1)
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    A Bit of Air (CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East #1)

    وليد طاهر

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2008

    Award-winning Egyptian children's author and illustrator Walid Taher targets a wider audience with A Bit of Air. Inspired by the long tradition of Egyptian colloquial poetry and its relation to social and political movements in Egypt, Taher creates a unique blend of visual art, poetry, and architecture. These darkly humorous poems and their accompanying images are snapshots of a state of mind and a space of fantasy that convey the absurd, the comical, the profound, and the idiosyncratic... more

  • Using Life (CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East #1)
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    Using Life (CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East #1)

    أحمد ناجي, Ahmed Naji, Ayman Al Zorkany

    Rated: 2.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2014

    Upon its initial release in Arabic in the fall of 2014, Using Life received acclaim in Egypt and the wider Arab world. But in 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison after a reader complained that an excerpt published in a literary journal harmed public morality. His imprisonment marks the first time in modern Egypt that an author has been jailed for a work of literature... more

  • Thunderbird (CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East #1)
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    Thunderbird (CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East #1)

    Sonia Nimr

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2022

    The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world. Aided by a djinn cat and girls who look identical to Noor and who each have one of the bird’s powers, in this initial volume Noor begins her journey through different historical periods, striving to keep the wall between worlds intact.

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