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Culture XV

0 Jul 25 2011 by Culture Editors

["National Dialogue with the Assads." Image from SyrianRevolution.org]

Jadaliyya's fifteenth culture section features another installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Syria. Naira Antoun and Mohanad Yaqubi offer a critical reading of Salt of This Sea. Suneela Mubayi translates Samar Yazbek's recently published account of the Syrian revoltl:

"The Corrections" by Amal hanano

"Yaffa is Not an Orange: The Limits of Archetypes" by Naira Antoun and Mohanad Yaqubi

"Now, This is Not Damascus Anymore" by Samar Yazbek (tr. Suneela Mubayi)

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