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Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
| DANIA SHAWWA | 19 June 2005
EMBROIDERIES is a shockingly fast book to read. The reader is fooled at first, ingesting this charming comic-strip tale like a light, spun-sugar confection. But it has lasting impact, its humour reverberating for days afterward.
The story takes place over the course of... [ more ]
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The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber
| DANIA SHAWWA | 29 May 2005
Arab-American writer DIANA ABU-JABER was born to cultures as different from each other as oil and vinegar. Her father Ghassan (whose name morphed to Gus, then Bud, after he immigrated to the US as a young man) hails from one of Jordan's oldest Bedouin families. He raised his three daughters on a steady diet of love, lush Middle-Eastern food and sentimental ideals. Her mother Pam is a fine-boned, blue-eyed American who balanced Bud's... [ more ]
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