Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers: Two Modern Arabic Novellas Mahdi Issa; Fiction; A novel of life in the British-run oilfields of Iraq in the middle of the twentieth century; FICTION / General But no one saw anything

But no one saw anything

Navarro reveals the hidden meanings behind the many conscious and subconscious things we do

the sanctity of the bonds to the land and religion

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Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers: Two Modern Arabic Novellas Mahdi Issa; Fiction; A novel of life in the British-run oilfields of Iraq in the middle of the twentieth century; FICTION / General But no one saw anythingBahaa AbdelmegidIn these two short novels, Bahaa Abdelmegid displays the impressive range of his narrative imagination. Set in the lower class Cairo district of Shubra, Saint Theresa tells the story of two young women, Budour and Sawsan, childhood friends who come of age following the 1967 war. Budour marries a humble tailor named Girgis, but begins an extended affair with his Jewish employer, Luka. Her friend Sawsan goes off to the university, only