Elias Khoury is the foremost novelist writing in Arabic today. Born in Beirut in the fateful year of 1948, he published his second novel, Little Mountain (1977).
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Khoury’s best-known novel is Gate of the Sun (1998), which the New York Times labeled “a genuine masterwork.”
It’s true that, most of the time, American reviewers read Arabic literature as if they’re reading the newspaper.
'It's bad enough that you waste thousands on your beauty, now you go a step farther on the scale of badness and embarrass us like that!' Mdu was furious on hearing about his wife's fight earlier that day.
'This is not primary or high school. What are you gonna do when the police arrests you?'
As a kid, and even as an adult, Bantu had a reputation for taking on people from the opposite gender.