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Book Review : Malu Halasa and Maziar Bahari’s Transit Tehran on contemporary photographs of Iran

Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations is the result of a collaboration between the London-based, US-born editor and journalist, Malu Halasa, and the Iranian journalist and film-maker, Maziar Bahari. Both have extensive previous experience in journalism and publishing as the high quality of this publication evidences.

Book Review: Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem

Sahar Hamouda, Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem, London: Garnet Publishing Ltd, January 2010
From: Al-Ahram Weekly
Reviewed by Amira Nowaira
Despite its title, Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem is no fairy tale. It offers no simple answers and provides no happy ending. And neither does it rehash platitudes or sentimentalities about the traumatic decades in Palestinian history leading to the Nakba.

Book Review: The Seven Veils Of Seth by Ibrahim al-Koni

There’s a tendency among Western people to romanticize that which seems exotic to them. Whether the yogic practices of India, philosophies of the Far East, or the spirituality of Native Americans, it doesn’t seem to matter. They imbue them with all sorts of mystical qualities, that may or may not have anything to do with the original practices, and believe they have found the secret to living a better life.