Happy Birthday

Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies – for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text – as into the world and into [...]

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There Was Once

“There was once a poor girl, as beautiful as she was good, who lived with her wicked stepmother in a house in the forest.”
“Forest? Forest is passé, I mean, I’ve had it with all this wilderness stuff. It’s not a right image of our society, today. Let’s have some urban for a change.”
“There was once [...]

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Vacation … books … missing

When you’re feeling lonely ’cause your significant other is out of town, and you’re bored ’cause it’s a vacation and you’re trapped in town, nothing’s better than to catch up on postponed readings. And as Arabic books seem a distraction while I teach English literature (the mind switching between Arabic and English texts seems to [...]

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