by Philip Rafferty | Jan 18, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Khaled Khalifa’s No Knives in the Kitchens of This City is a beautiful and gut wrenching multi-generational novel centered on the time of the rise of the Ba’athist party regime in Aleppo. The destruction that the party inflicts on Syria is seen through the lives...
by Katie Richards | Nov 28, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press Formats: Hardcover Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound[/alert] In The Taste of Egypt Dyna Eldaief strives to make the familiar home cooking of her Egyptian childhood...