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		<title>English world rights to Yazbek&#8217;s &#8216;Revolution diaries&#8217; sold!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These posts are a little redundant, but I had to make three of them for the information to be really clear! Finally, Yazbek&#8217;s &#8216;In the crossfire: Syrian revolution diaries&#8217; were acquired by Haus publishing, UK. The book is expected to be out in May.
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		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/02/english-world-rights-to-yazbeks-revolution-diaries-sold/</link>
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		<title>German rights to Yazbek&#8217;s &#8216;Revolution diaries&#8217; sold!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[German rights to Yazbek&#8217;s &#8216;In the crossfire: Syrian revolution diaries&#8217; were acquired by Nagel &#038; Kimche, Hanser. The book is expected to be out in March.
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		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/02/german-rights-to-yazbeks-revolution-diaries-sold/</link>
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		<title>French rights to Yazbek&#8217;s &#8216;Revolution diaries&#8217; sold!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French house Buchet-Chastel acquired the rights to Samar Yazbek&#8217;s book &#8216;In the crossfire: Syrian revolution diaries&#8217;. The book should be out in the end of March.
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		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/02/french-rights-to-yazbeks-revolution-diaries-sold/</link>
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		<title>Khalifa&#8217;s voice from Damascus is being heard!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Khaled KHALIFA Two days ago, Khaled Khalifa sent me his address below in Arabic. He needed it to be translated into French and English for starters. His aim was for it to reach as many people as possible. Less than 48 hours later, I find his address on @arablit&#8217;s blog, and I receive an e-mail from Transworld, his publisher in the UK. I know the internet sometimes makes wonders. But I&#8217;m still amazed at his voice being heard!

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&#8220;My friends, writers and journalists from all over the world, in China and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/02/khalifas-voice-from-damascus-is-being-heard/</link>
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		<title>Al Riahi&#8217;s &#8220;Gorilla&#8221; on tyranny &#124; Al Akhbar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The novel surprises the reader as soon as page one: Saleh, the poor young man, climbs up the clock tower at the intersection of Boulevard Mohammed V and Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis to announce the resurrection. People gather around the tower, state police is brought in as the scene of the young man hanging in the air occupies the news and the talk of the population.
Through a scenic coherent structure, the novel's passages follow each other in a mastered montage, using an intense, accurate, language that preserves its beauty, without falling into rhetoric and useless talk.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/02/al-riahi-s-gorilla-on-tyranny-al-akhbar/</link>
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		<title>Kamal Al Riahi&#8217;s &#8220;The gorilla&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA["The gorilla" is a novel that looks into the impact of the Ben Ali era on the Tunisian society. The revolution is literally at the heart of this novel, but it's not its main topic, as much as it is the story of this young black man, nicknamed 'Gorilla'. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/02/kamal-al-riahis-the-gorilla/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Beavers&#8217;, a novel away from clichés &#124; Al Akhbar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his new novel, the author of the «Collar of purity» frees his characters from the dead-end of ready-made ideas, and weaves their lives away from preaching and proselytizing. Ghalib, Ghada, Badriya, Salman and the other characters, live the consequences of many of the disadvantages of the Saudi society]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/02/beavers-a-novel-away-from-cliches-al-akhbar/</link>
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		<title>Mohammad Hasan Alwan&#8217;s &#8220;Beavers&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published by Dar al Saqi in the fall of 2011, Beavers is a sensitive portrait of a contemporary Saudi bourgeois family.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/01/mohammad-hasan-alwans-beavers/</link>
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		<title>Rights to Hawra Al Nadawi&#8217;s book sold in Denmark!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a follow up on the previous post, concerning a very interesting interview given by Hawra al Nadawi to politiken in Denmark, I am happy to announce that the Danish rights of the young author&#8217;s book &#8216;Under the Copenhagen&#8217;s sky&#8217;, was acquired by C&#038;K Forlag.

Written in Arabic, the book was nevertheless clearly addressing a Danish audience, as the author explicitly states in her interview. Describing the Arab emigrants&#8217; lives, the author hoped to give an insight into the complexities of being different, and trying to fit it &#8212; something she ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/01/rights-to-hawra-al-nadawis-book-sold-in-denmark/</link>
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		<title>Hawra al Nadawi in Danish paper Politiken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 12th, the Danish widely read newspaper Politiken interviewed Hawra Al Nadawi. The young writer was long-listed for the IPAF (Arab Man Booker), for her first novel &#8216;Under the Copenhagen sky&#8217; published by Dar al Saqi, Lebanon, in 2010. Below, with some delay, the English translation of the interview that didn&#8217;t go unnoticed in Denmark (approximate translation &#8212; thank you Google! &#8212; as I have no knowledge whatsoever of Danish). As several Danish colleagues confessed, such a book giving an insight into the Arab emigrant population of Denmark has ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rayaagency.org/2012/01/hawra-al-nadawi-in-danish-paper-politiken/</link>
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