{"id":1942,"date":"2007-01-29T13:41:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2007-01-29T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T13:41:55","slug":"2007-1-29-baheyya-on-new-books-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"Baheyya on new books"},"content":{"rendered":"
Don’t miss Baheyya’s reviews of new books<\/a> at this year’s Cairo International Book Fair: Sonallah Ibrahim’s “Sneaking,” Khaled al-Khamissi’s “Taxi” (which I got a chance to take a look at the other day) and of course Alaa al-Aswani’s “Chicago,” which we mentioned earlier here<\/a>. I haven’t gone to the fair yet this year, but I really recommend it to anyone, even if you don’t read Arabic. I am particularly interested in the latest in religious books and anything that might explain the recent increase of munaqabat<\/em> (women wearing the full-face veil) in Cairo.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Don’t miss Baheyya’s reviews of new books<\/a> at this year’s Cairo International Book Fair: Sonallah Ibrahim’s “Sneaking,” Khaled al-Khamissi’s “Taxi” (which I got a chance to take a look at the other day) and of course Alaa al-Aswani’s “Chicago,” which we mentioned earlier here<\/a>. I haven’t gone to the fair yet this year, but I really recommend it to anyone, even if you don’t read Arabic. I am particularly interested in the latest in religious books and anything that might explain the recent increase of munaqabat<\/em> (women wearing the full-face veil) in Cairo.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}