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A Nose and Three Eyes: A Novel by Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, translated by Jonathan Smolin (Hoopoe, 2024) has been selected as one of Brittle Paper’s 100 Notable African Books of 2024: “A Nose and Three Eyes is a story of female desire and sexual awakening, of love and infatuation, and of exploitation and despair. It quietly critiques the strictures put upon women by conservative social norms and expectations, while a subtle undercurrent of political censure was carefully aimed at the then Nasser regime.”—Brittle Paper
Granada: The Complete Trilogy by Radwa Ashour, translated by Kay Heikkinen (Hoopoe, 2024).
“There’s much to like about Kay Heikkinen’s new translation of Radwa Ashour’s Granada trilogy, from the timeless appeal of a multigenerational saga to the way these stories reflect a seismic moment in the region’s history. In showing how various characters reckon with questions of assimilation and social control, Ashour’s trilogy meticulously shows a status quo slowly disintegrating.” —Tobias Carroll,Words Without Borders
Making Film in Egypt by Chihab El Khachab (AUC Press, 2021).
“The central puzzle animating Chihab El Khachab’s detailed ethnographic description of filmmaking in Cairo is how complex production processes made up of thousands of small decisions and acts, all with good odds of failure and infelicity, come to fruition with some regularity in the Egyptian film industry.”—Lotte Hoek, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
The National Imaginarium by Magdy Mounir El-Shammaa (AUC Press, 2021).
“The National Imaginarium combines extensive research of both Arabic and English language sources with newly collected data and engaging textual analysis of a representative group of films for each significant period. . . . What makes this book additionally unique is the detailed history of political and economic factors that determined the developments of each time period.”—Samirah Alkassim, Review of Middle East Studies
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance by Louis Brehony (AUC Press, 2023).
“Brehony’s book provides valuable insight . . . . by delving into such wide-ranging case studies, the book celebrates both the diversity and cohesion of Palestinian musicianship.”—Hanna Salmon, Journal of Palestine Studies
Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson (AUC Press, 2023).
“Aidan Dodson gives us a pithy and typically well-informed account of the available evidence for the reign, and of the series of extraordinary (and much-debated) dynastic events that precipitated it.”—Campbell Price, Antiquity
