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2020Zouba’s Theatre
by Salwa Bakr
How far has Egypt changed in the last sixty years? A question that Salwa Bakr answers in this collection of short stories that range from the 1960s to the changes in Egyptian society of the January 2011 Revolution. Bakr’s opening stories tackle Syria’s secession from the United Arab Republic, the political union between Egypt and Syria. Through history, the author takes the reader on a journey of discovery of the shifts that the Egyptian society has seen over more than half a century, also looking at the Arab–Israeli conflict and the oil revolution in the Middle East. The narration is omniscient, cinematic, and musical, asking questions of identity and how far revolutions have changed Egypt. The language is diverse, from Standard Arabic to Colloquial and different dialects. “I am not inspired by history; I write about history,” Bakr says.
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SagasThe Peshmurian
by Salwa Bakr
The Pashmurian Salwa Bakr The Novelist Salwa Bakr is one of the most famous Egyptian writers who discusses important issues in society and the history of humanity. till the reader has the ability to find an infinite number of messages, And various human meanings in one story feeling connected with it and with all its characters without exception And in that novel, the hero goes through a real test with everything around him. After being lost after a dramatic and highly private attitude, life and thought changes followed him until he scoured the Earth for many existential questions after everything. in the meantime that major events took place in Egypt in the Coptic era, He finds himself bewildered and surrounded by further questions, as for The Pashmurian , the Egyptian peasant in Coptic, The Coptic people used to live in Egypt according to special customs and traditions, where they had their way of love, work, fun and religion. This account lists the events of this mysterious and forgotten period in the Arab region's history. This fascinating novel was selected among the top 100 Arab novels after creating a major controversy once it first appeared to light, and was dealt with in a large number of critical articles, lectures and studies, then translated into several languages, and classified by some as one of the masterpieces of the art of writing the novel .
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Travel writingNovember 2004Frail Dream of Timbuktu
by Bettina Selby
In her latest journey, the most exotic and challenging of them all, Bettina Selby set out to explore the land of ancient African empires along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert. Following the course of the river Niger, from Niamey through the fabled city of Tibuktu and so on to Djenne and Segou, she reveals a lost world of cities founded centuries ago on the rich profits from trade and spices, gold and slaves. It was not only the siren call of these cities that drew Bettina to the Sahel, but the harsh beauty of the land and curiosity about the people who live there now. Some Fulani and Tuareg, still proudly nomadic manage to scrape a living from the thin soil as the desert encroaches. In the mountains to the south the Dogon have lived for centuries in their curious villages clinging to the cliffs, still haunted by the spirits of their ancestors. Needless to say the spectacle of a single woman on a bicycle was greeted with amazement and curiosity in almost equal measure. But even an all-terrain bicycle was not always equal to the desert conditions, so Bettina, nothing if not flexible, took to pirogue, camel or bush taxi as the occasion demanded. With the ‘strong brown god’ of the Niger flowing through her account, a lost corner of Africa unfolds on either side. Full of echoes of the past, its future is precarious, and Bettina Selby captures it here, remote, elusive and in transition. Bettina Selby is a real adventurer TLS
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October 2012Music, Politics, and Violence
by Edited by Susan Fast, edited by Kip Pegley
An in-depth consideration of the relationship between music and violence
