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Year of living dangerously My Year in Iraq: the Struggle to Build a Future of Hope, L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. pp417 By David Tresilian
Records of an invasion L'Irak de la crise au chaos: chroniques d'une invasion (Iraq from Crisis to Chaos: Chronicles of an Invasion), ed. Kenneth Brown, Paris: Ibis Press. pp321 By David Tresilian
History lessons for Iraq Basra: the Failed Gulf State, Separatism and Nationalism in Southern Iraq, Reidar Visser, Muenster (Germany): LiT Verlag, 2005. pp238 By Omayma Abdel-Latif
Arabic narratives galore Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. pp1080 By Ferial Ghazoul
An occasion to celebrate Al-taswir al-hadith fi misr (Modern Painting in Egypt), Aimé Azar, with a preface by Cyril des Baux, translated from the French by Naim Attia & Edward Kharat; Cairo: The National Project for Translation, Supreme Council for Culture, 2006. pp426 + 293 reproductions; originally published as La Peinture moderne en Egypte, Cairo: Les Editions nouvelles, 1961
In search of Amy Fayza Hassan provides contextual background for the life of Amy Nimr, early 20th century Egyptian painter
Incredible, but totally real An Iraqi in Paris, Samuel Shimon, translated from Arabic by Samira Kawar, Paul Starkey, Issa J Boullata, Christina Phillips, Shakir Mustafa & Fiona Collins, London: Banipal Books, 2005. pp252 By Hanna Ziadeh
Shared momentum Cairo Stencils, Chant Avedissian, London: Saqi Books, 2006. pp134
Ancient temples and dictionariesThe Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, Richard H. Wilkinson, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp255; Temples of Ancient Egypt, ed. Byron E. Shafer, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2005. pp335 Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, Toby Wilkinson, London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. pp271 By Jill Kamil
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