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Lilas Taha - Author: July 2014
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Lilas Taha - Author. Writing a life: End this day, bring on the night, and let the madness begin. Tuesday, July 22, 2014. The girl brought her head down. She swung her legs back and forth under the kitchen table and crossed her arms on the wooden surface. A single braid sat neatly in the middle of her back. A big window behind her framed her profile in the mid morning light. She looked small, too little for an eleven-year old. Today, my daughter asked me about the girls. She said she felt nauseated f...
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Lilas Taha - Author: February 2015
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Lilas Taha - Author. Writing a life: End this day, bring on the night, and let the madness begin. Friday, February 13, 2015. When I seriously considered writing a book, I knew that in any story, characters have to become alive, invoke emotions, reactions, and thoughts from readers. Whether the character is the main one in the story, or secondary in a subplot, it doesn’t matter. All the actions and dialogue coming out of the character have to be convincing. With Shadows of Damascus,. Posted by Lilas Taha.
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The Official Beth Owyn Blog: Shadows of Damascus by Lilas Taha + Giveaway
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The Official Beth Owyn Blog. The Official Beth Owyn Blog, author and short-story weaver. Tuesday, 4 February 2014. Shadows of Damascus by Lilas Taha Giveaway. Shadows of Damascus by Lilas Taha. Genres: War, Military, Contemporary. Bullet wounds, torture and oppression aren’t the only things that keep a man—or a woman—from being whole. Is it too late for Adam and Yasmeen? Shadows of Damascus to be released by Soul Mate Publishing mid January, 2014. Today, her mother told her she would be allowed to take a...
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M. Omid | Sausan Reads – Malaysia
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Sausan Reads – Malaysia. Tag Archives: M. Omid. Some Poetry and a Film Clip (Iranian Cinema). Posted on June 3, 2014. 1st b/w pic above is of Tehran professor, novelist and playwright, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, while below are a film clip from It’s Winter, directed by one of Iran’s new wave of contemporary film-makers, Rafi Pitts and final picture sketch of the late Persian poet, Mehdi Akhvan Sales. Or otherwise, popularly known as M. Omid. 8220;They are not going to answer your greeting,. If you stretch a fr...
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Kurdish Fiction | Sausan Reads – Malaysia
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Sausan Reads – Malaysia. Tag Archives: Kurdish Fiction. The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi. Posted on July 31, 2014. The Age of Orphans. The foundation of the novel, begins from here. Reza marries a beautiful Persian woman, with a mind of her own. She hates the Kurds and brings their children up to reflect the same misgivings. Materialistic and selfish, she takes revenge on Reza, whom she feels has short-changed her with a failed promise of glitzy wealth and status, by sleeping with other men...Not t...
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Lilas Taha - Author: CRW 2015 Award of Excellence Contest Finalist
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Lilas Taha - Author. Writing a life: End this day, bring on the night, and let the madness begin. Monday, June 15, 2015. CRW 2015 Award of Excellence Contest Finalist. I'm pleased to announce that my novel Shadows Of Damascus. Was chosen as a finalist in the Mainstream w/Romantic Elements category of the. Colorado Romance Writers 2015 Award of Excellence Contest. To see the finalists list on the. Winners will be announced at the CRW conference in Denver, Colorado on August 8, 2015. Posted by Lilas Taha.
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Kamran Rastegar | Sausan Reads – Malaysia
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Sausan Reads – Malaysia. Tag Archives: Kamran Rastegar. Some Poetry and a Film Clip (Iranian Cinema). Posted on June 3, 2014. 1st b/w pic above is of Tehran professor, novelist and playwright, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, while below are a film clip from It’s Winter, directed by one of Iran’s new wave of contemporary film-makers, Rafi Pitts and final picture sketch of the late Persian poet, Mehdi Akhvan Sales. Or otherwise, popularly known as M. Omid. 8220;They are not going to answer your greeting,. If you stre...
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Iranian Literature | Sausan Reads – Malaysia
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Sausan Reads – Malaysia. Tag Archives: Iranian Literature. Afsaneh: Short Stories by Iranian Women. Posted on August 1, 2014. Short stories by Iranian women edited by *Kaveh Basmenji. This book of 20 unusual short stories by Iranian women edited and translated by the 48-year old journalist, Kaveh Basmenji. And spanning several decades, is deeply melancholic with its spartan prose. Drawn from a rigid faithfulness, expect plainly-written lines like “I went there seldom” or “He smiled at m...Rather, she is ...
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The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi | Sausan Reads – Malaysia
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Sausan Reads – Malaysia. The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi. Posted on July 31, 2014. The Age of Orphans. The Kurds want their own land and country. Unaware, Reza appears tender, gentle and sensitive…a kind, pensive little boy who takes delight in heaping affection upon his mother and by feeding at her breasts, every chance he gets. However, he is prepared for early manhood by his father and neighbouring men, who take him into the caves and through a painful ritual, announce his manhood. Not that Reza m...
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Laleh Khadivi | Sausan Reads – Malaysia
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Sausan Reads – Malaysia. Tag Archives: Laleh Khadivi. The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi. Posted on July 31, 2014. The Age of Orphans. The foundation of the novel, begins from here. Reza marries a beautiful Persian woman, with a mind of her own. She hates the Kurds and brings their children up to reflect the same misgivings. Materialistic and selfish, she takes revenge on Reza, whom she feels has short-changed her with a failed promise of glitzy wealth and status, by sleeping with other men....Not that ...
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