Search Results for ‘Palestinian Territories’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 6 matches found

The Yacoubian Building

Highly acclaimed upon its initial publication, Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impassioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of...

Jewish Journeys

Drawing on travel chronicles, biographies, modern literary reflections and Biblical sources, “Jewish Journeys” explains why the ‘journey’, from Abraham journeying from one land and culture in search...

The Liquid Continent - Volume I - Alexandria

In his “Liquid Continent” trilogy, Nicholas Woodsworth combines travel narrative, history and reflection of the essence of life in the Mediterranean.
Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels overland...

Rome and Jerusalem - The Clash of Ancient Civilizations

Martin Goodman’s “Rome and Jerusalem - The Clash of Ancient Civilizations” is a fabulous dissection of two crucial centuries in Jewish history.
In AD 70, after a war which had flared sporadically for...

Quarantine

Jim Crace's Quarantine is a novel based around Jesus’ forty days and nights encountering evil in the wilderness of the Judean desert while searching for God. This telling of the story, however, is markedly...

Apricots On The Nile - A Memoir with Recipes

Colette Rossant’s “Apricots on the Nile begins in 1937, when at just five years old Rossant arrived in Cairo from Paris with her Egyptian Jewish father and beautiful French mother.
When her father...