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It is possible to approach the work of Iman Mersal (b. 1966) from a standpoint of literary criticism.
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Something like this cycle defines the work of Iman Mersal, which as a result seems a little apart from the small eternities we call Literature, those stylised subjects of spectacle that, aiming for immortality, end up immodestly omnipresent.
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The day she first presented her doctoral thesis on images of America in Arab travel writing -- it happened to coincide with the invasion of Baghdad in April 2003; and Cairo University, where she chose to work, was abuzz with Arab nationalist sentiment -- Mersal walked home crying.
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It is possible to approach the work of Iman Mersal (b. 1966) from a standpoint of literary criticism.
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To her distress, when Alternative Geography appeared, critics on the whole failed to notice just how far Mersal had come.
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To her distress, when Alternative Geography appeared, critics on the whole failed to notice just how far Mersal had come.
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That is the game Iman Mersal is playing, less with writing than with life.
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Something like this cycle defines the work of Iman Mersal, which as a result seems a little apart from the small eternities we call Literature, those stylised subjects of spectacle that, aiming for immortality, end up immodestly omnipresent.
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By the time she returns to writing (or publishing: I think she was writing all along, she just happens to be pathologically timorous about showing her work), Professor Mersal seems to be saying there is not much wisdom in marriage or motherhood either.
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By the time she returns to writing (or publishing: I think she was writing all along, she just happens to be pathologically timorous about showing her work), Professor Mersal seems to be saying there is not much wisdom in marriage or motherhood either.
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