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I definitely need to read this, Schroedinger’s Ball, by Adam Felder. Reviewed by Richard Eder.
“As for a message, I suppose it would be, “Uncertainty transfigures.” To be taken no more seriously, and perhaps no less, than the “love will find a way” of a Strauss or a Franz Lehar. Which is also Mr. Felber’s message, come to think of it.”
Do I resemble myself? Perhaps this kind of thing is what’s being represented in the tattoo on Arzu’s arm:
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I bought a book of his the other day, haven’t got to it yet: All Families are Psychotic. It might be more uplifting than John Berger (last/next post).
and here’s this link to his film notes on the upcoming, Everything Gone Green.
He was also profiled for “JPod” in the Time Out magazine I picked up for July’s events in Istanbul. Pretty good media saturation, eh? 
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Gertrude Stein, “no answer”
smog buster
“Love is a revolutionary act.” ~ Barbara Love
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene.
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Yasser sends this New Left Review article about his father, Abd al-Rahman Munif, explaining “It’s almost an accurate account of Munif’s work and political views.” This leaves one to wonder where it is off! But for a generally naive american like myself, it looks like quite an impressive corpus demonstrating a good deal of personal courage.
Mr. Munif died a year ago.
The author of this piece, Sabry Hafez, makes many laudatory claims: they convince me I ought to read at least some of these works. For instance, “Ard al-Sawad is by far the best Arabic novel on Iraq.”
“Here and Now is a hospital in Prague where ex-political prisoners are sent by their parties for treatment, to seek a cure for their bodies and souls. The hospital, however, is no isolated cosmos, but a locus of contending forces in which external political powers are also at work.”
Munif is most famous for Sharq al-Mutawassit, East of the Mediterranean, “whose public impact was deep and immediate.”
A close second for fame might be the quintet, Cities of Salt, which Hafez describes as “construct[ing] a fictional universe of remarkable imaginative coherence that is a passionate cry against what Munif once called the trilogy of evils afflicting the Arab world&emdash;rentier oil, political Islam and police dictatorship&emdash;and a profound call for justice and freedom.”
“A World without Maps offers a fresco of a huge city that has descended into obscurity and chaos.”
“Endings remains one of the most advanced fictions in contemporary Arab literature.”
“Hin Tarakna al-Jisr (When We Abandoned the Bridge, 1976), already showed his restlessness and capacity for formal reinvention.”
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Truth or fiction? This fictionalized memoir, The Ruins of California is posed as fighting to protect the truth in opposition to presenting fiction as a memoir embellishing the truth.
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There are a couple of articles that might be of interest in this online journal, especially if I manage to do more work with organizations and/or institutions.
posted by Suely to air-l Digest, Vol 18, Issue 14
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Note: 27 January 2006: he’s a liar.
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The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn by Janis Hallowell.
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Here’s a new documentary described as (imagine!) “a successful human rights movie. We’ll have to see to it to believe it.
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a random appearance as I googled something else:
salon.com review
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