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[3 Oct 2021 | No Comment | 43 views]
Hoda Barakat in Brazil

Watch Hoda Barakat in conversation with Brazilian author Milton Hatoum, an event organized bu Tabla, Hoda Barakat’s Brazialian publisher.
This event focuses on Hoda Barakat’s novel “The tiller of waters”
Hoda Barakat and Milton Hattoum in conversation

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[14 Mar 2021 | No Comment | 152 views]
The Bobsphere blog reviews Barakat’s Voices of the Lost: “a one-of-a-kind novel”

By Bobsphere, February 16, 2021
Hoda Barakat’s novel, Voices of the Lost manages to pull off quite a feat. This is a novel about war, it is a political novel. It is also a novel about love, ranging from filial to romantic, abuse, trauma, , fatherhood, motherhood it’s all in there. Like a piece of tapestry this novel weaves in themes, which create multi-layered result.

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[25 Feb 2021 | No Comment | 218 views]
Al Araby reviews Hoda Barakat’s Night post “Hoda Barakat does it again”!

By Tahmina Begum, for Al Araby, February 19, 2021
Usually, when you open up a book, which begins with a letter, you presume that the answer is hidden somewhere in the pages. Instead what you get with Voices of The Lost, is a sense of ambiguity and a human chain revealing that we’re all much more similar than we recognise. That we see our stories inside one another, even those whose circumstances on the surface seem opposing to ours.

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[17 Feb 2021 | No Comment | 98 views]
The Guardian reviews Barakat’s Voices of the lost (aka Night post): “Searing”

By Madeleine Thien, for The Guardian, February13th, 2021
 
A chain of letters links five refugees in the Lebanese writer’s searing prizewinner
“That country is now gone,” observes an unnamed woman in Voices of the Lost. “It is finished, toppled over and shattered like a huge glass vase. To attempt to bring any of this back … could produce only a pure, unadulterated grief, an unbearable bitterness.” The woman is waiting in a hotel in an unnamed European country for a lover she has not seen in decades. As the hours tick by, …

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[15 Jun 2020 | No Comment | 50 views]
Il Manifesto features Hoda Barakat

Il Manifesto, May, 2020
In an interview to Il Manifesto, Hoda Barakat, first woman to win the prestigious International Prize for Arabic fiction 2019 (or Arab Booker) shares:

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[15 Jun 2020 | No Comment | 33 views]

“This is the story of a noble people, rooted in the plains of civilization and the park of history”