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Scream of a Butterfly

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The weeks pri­or to my trip to India, I col­lab­o­rat­ed with Lay­al El Ghazirie on her debut book صرخة فراشه (Scream of a But­ter­fly). In her col­lec­tion of 25 short sto­ries, para­bles, and anec­dotes, the promis­ing young Lebanese author writes about mar­riage from the point of view of a 21 year old girl liv­ing in a soci­ety that, when it comes to the issue, suf­fers a cri­sis of identity.

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Breaking the Law

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When I was in Lon­don last sum­mer, Corinne and I went to see Jude Law play Ham­let at Wyn­d­ham’s The­ater on Char­ing Cross Road. Even though the shows were booked sol­id until the end of the play’s four-month run, we saun­tered in like we owned the place and grabbed the last two tick­ets five min­utes before the mati­nee show began.

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