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The Mahdist War, which took place at the end of the nineteenth century, was officially a war against colonialism in Sudan. In reality, though, it was much more than that; fighting took place across a continent, and reverberations were felt
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“I am a four-dimensional ghost,” he murmured to himself.”
― Skylight: A Novel
― Skylight: A Novel
“That mansion, as it was called, brought on everyone who lived in it, or even went near it, a curse that was like that of the pharaohs.”
― In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
― In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
“She’s an old lady from times back. Her clothes have the smell of her sheep and that rusty smell of the ancient trunk in which she keeps her things.”
― In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
― In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
“Just two tears. That’s all life is worth.”
― Skylight: A Novel
― Skylight: A Novel
“I found him most of the time grave-faced, staring ahead of him, and eating frugally.”
― In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
― In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
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