![]() ![]() ![]() People in the Middle East are just like anywhere else in the world and when someone is behaving promiscuously, they will gossip with the best of them. In the hands of Miral Al-Tahawys A View from Brooklyn Heights, winner of prestigious 2010 Naguib Mahfouz award, life as an emigrant is a struggle for harmony one might not win Wednesday, 05. When talking with people about Middle-Eastern culture there is often this stigma that people are too reserved and that the culture blocks anyone from saying anything in regard to sexual matters. ![]() ![]() More than just the humor in this line, I want to point out that this novel was originally written in Arabic and even won Best Novel of the Year at the Cairo Book Fair. Inshirah laughs: “What he needs is an hour with Fatima Al-Gurumiyya.”” More so, it is the story of a people who remember a time when kings and princes paid homage to them and they controlled large piece’s of Egypt’s land, yet are now dwindling. It is a story of a journey of Muhra, the main character, as she finds out about the bitter truth about her mother and the foreigner whom she loved. Here we have a world where an entire people’s way of life is threatened by the ever-increasing majority who live in cities. Here is an interesting tale of a Bedouin girl living in the 19th century. ![]()
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