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There's a whole world out there! I'm an experienced, UK-based editor and a bit of an aesthetic dilettante. I'm making it my off-duty duty to bring to your attention books, films, artists, music and TV from all over the world. Reviews are SPOILER FREE. New posts every week. See Reviews by country for my reviews from each nation.

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Tag Archives: Egypt

Egyptian film Souad

Social media, tragedy and coming of age in modern-day Egypt

Posted byimogenglad4th Sep 20217th Dec 2021Posted infilmTags: coming of age, Egypt, female directors, film, middle east, middle east and north africa, movie, North Africa Middle East and Central Asia, social media, subtitled film2 Comments on Egyptian film Souad

Review no 124: The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt)

A wide-ranging, best-selling novel set in Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt that is more socially conservative than it thinks it is

Posted byimogenglad11th Dec 202013th Dec 2020Posted inbookTags: book, book review, books in translation, Egypt, middle east and north africa, novel, translated literature3 Comments on Review no 124: The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt)

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