Member: Fullmoonblue
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About meArtwork by Jody Hemphill Smith, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Introvert bookworm whose areas of interest include North African Arabic & Francophone literature, literary theory (sometimes), postcolonial studies & cinemas, politics & history, trauma theory, war stories, gender and sexuality, Islam in pop culture (romance novels, Barbary pirates, captivity narratives) and monster/stranger/other/outsider imagery in literature, political theory, philosophy, and religion.
GroupsBookMooching, Club Read 2009, Club Read 2010, Fans of Joyce Carol Oates, ISLAM, Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple, Learning Arabic, Middle Eastern Literature, Pro and Con, Reading Globally —show all groups, Shabby Sheik: Sheik, Sheikh, Sultan & Desert Romances, Steampunk
Favorite authorsAgha Shahid Ali, Merzak Allouache, Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Hélène Cixous, Roald Dahl, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cynthia Enloe, Brian Evenson, Carolyn Forché, Michel Foucault, Marilyn Frye, Louise Gluck, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kapka Kassabova, Richard Kearney, Søren Kierkegaard, Milan Kundera, Emmanuel Levinas, Audre Lorde, Sarah Manguso, Carole Maso, C. Wright Mills, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Mohammed Mrabet, Vladimir Nabokov, Amélie Nothomb, Orhan Pamuk, Somaya Ramadan, Ellen Raskin, Edward W. Said, George Saunders, Alexandra Sellers, Susan Sontag, Ahdaf Soueif, Craig Thompson, Slavoj Žižek (Shared favorites)
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Favorite bookstoresAmerican University in Cairo Bookstore, Bluestockings, Book Cellar, Book Trader Cafe, Books by the Sea, Books by the Sea, Diwan Bookstore, Hyde Brothers Book Sellers, Madbouly Bookshop, شركة مدبولي للنشر والتوزيع, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Strand Bookstore, Unoppressive, Non-Imperialist Bargain Books
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