Top Five

We discuss some of our favorite books from the past year, and some titles we're excited to get our hands on soon. Show Notes Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, ed. Zahra Hankir Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, tr. Sinan Antoon Palestine + 100, ed. Basma Ghalayini Palestine as Metaphor, by Mahmoud Darwish, tr. Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché Room 304 or How I Hid from My Dear Father for 35 Years by Amr Ezzat, tr. Nora Amin and Yasmine Zohdi Souls of Edo, by Stella Gaitano, is available from Rafiki Printing and Publishing Celestial Bodies, by Jokha al-Harthi, tr. Marilyn Booth; you can watch the clip from their CNN interview on Twitter. Sentence to Hope: A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader by Sa'dallah Wannous, tr. Nada Saab and Robert Myers Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide by Mohamed Elshahed The Magnificent Conman of Cairo by Adel Kamel, tr. Waleed Almusharaf Impostures by al-Hariri, translated by Michael Cooperson · In Pursuit of Enayat al-Zayat by Iman Mersal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.