Book Notes - Rabih Alameddine ("The Hakawati")

Posted Tuesday June 24, 2008, 1:54 pm, Over one day old

If any work of fiction might be powerful enough to transcend the mountain of polemic, historical inquiry, policy analysis and reportage that stands between the Western reader and the Arab soul, it?s this wonder of a book?a book not about a jihadi but a hakawati (Arabic for storyteller).

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