A Woman at Point Zero  

Fedwa Malti-Douglas writes, in her 1995 study Men, Women, and Gods: Nawal el Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics that ‘[n]o Arab woman inspires as much emotion as Nawal el Saadawi. No woman in the Middle East has been the subject …



The Illusion of Return  

An airport is that most modern and liminal of places, a kind of temporary and illusory ground between the worlds of home and elsewhere, a no-place through which we pass, noting the lives occurring around us and sharing in their …