<p><b>A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt¿s premier poet.</b><br><br>Iman Mersal is Egypt¿s¿indeed, the Arab world¿s¿great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo¿s legendary literary <i>boh¿</i>, a home for ¿Lovers of cheap weed and awkward confessions / Anti-State agitators¿ and ¿People like me.¿ These are poems of wit and rage, freaked by moments of sudden beauty, like ¿the smell of guava¿ mysteriously wafting through the City of the Dead. Other poems bear witness to agonizing loss and erotic temptation, ¿the breath of two bodies that never had enough time / and so took pleasure in their mounting terror.¿ Mersal¿s most recent work illuminates the trials of displacement and migration, as well as the risks of crossing boundaries, personal and political, in literature and in life.<br><br><i>The Threshold </i>gathers poems from M
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When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great - yet forgotten - novel written by a young woman who killed herself shortly after her book was rejected by publishers, Mersal begins to research the writer. From archives, Enayat's writing and Mersal's...
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Hvorfor bærer muslimske kvinner hijab? Hvorfor ser folk på hijaben som undertrykkende? Føles den undertrykkende for den som bærer den? <br/>Disse spørsmålene la <strong>Iman Meskini</strong> (bedre kjent som Sana i SKAM) ut på...
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