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Rabih Alameddine Fiction

The Hakawati

Date of Review:

04/01/2008

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Condé Nast Traveler

Review Excerpt:

“Dazzling . . . weaves together spellbinding reimaginings of two of the Arab world’s most bewitching tales—that of Fatima and Baybars, the famous slave king, and of Osama al-Kharrat, a Lebanese expat who returns to Beirut to be at his dying father’s bedside.”

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