Damien Aubel, February 2023,  for Transfuge
Mansoura Ezeldin’s novel has the intensity and mystery of a marvelous gem. It illuminates this winter’s publications.
Here is a book which delights the reader in exactly the same proportion as it condemns the critic to embarrassment.
A book that prevents any analytical intent, and causes a thousand rare pleasures. A small prowess in which the qualities apparently least likely to agree come together with the most perfect naturalness. A malleable alloy where are mixed together the highest erudition — the intellectual effervescence of the Basra of the 8th century –; the flow, both tumultuous and …

Samar Yazbek’s book “The Wind’s abode”, published by Stock presented in ‘C’est ce soir’ on France 5.
Listen to the presentation here

Samar Yazbek, author of “The Wind’s Abode”, published at Éditions Stock, was invited at “Maghreb-Orient Express” show on TV5 to talk about her book.
Listen to the interview here

A review by Hala Kodmani, for Libération, January 22nd, 2023
 
A look back at the war in Syria through the eyes of a soldier from the pro-Bashar al-Assad forces.