Articles about Abdelrahman Munif

Dhahran, 1996
A short article by Abdelrahman Munif, commenting on the bombing of the US base at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

War on words
by Tariq Ali
The triumph of the free market after the end of the Cold War doesn't mean a free market in ideas. Tariq Ali discusses the way literature can still be a crime against the state - with reference to Munif and other Arab writers. (From "Red Pepper")

Oil Monarchies
by Gregory F Gause
A political scientist explores some of the themes that Munif addresses in his novels. See especially Chapter 2

The Barber of Baghdad 
Review by Farouq Abdel-Qadir, al-Ahram Weekly, 13 January, 2000

Crisis in the Arab world – oil, political Islam, and dictatorship  
An interview by Iskandar Habash, Al Jadid magazine, Vol. 9, no. 45.

Tool for change: Abd al-Rahman Munif remembered

A special issue of the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies on Munif's life and work (Vol 7, Spring 2007). The complete issue can be downloaded here in PDF format or as individual articles:

Introduction 
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

Ard al-Sawad: A novel formulation of people's history of Iraq
Ferial J Ghazoul

Upon Leaving the Bridge and Endings: a redemptive journey
Maher Jarrar

Writing the novel anew (Arabic and English Translation)
Elias Khoury

De-construction: Two edges of A Magian Love-Story
Nisrine Jaafar

Histoire et fiction dans Mudun al-Milh (Les Cites de Sel)
(French and English abstract)
Eric Gautier

Munif's interest in modern art: Friendship, symbolic exchange and the art of the book
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

The Monument of Freedom (Arabic and English translation)
‘Abd al-Rahman Munif

An Arabian master
Sabry Hafez

Munif: Poetics of a life 
Includes biographical sketch, a chronology of Munif's works and correspondence.

Book review 
Abdel Rahman Munif wal Iraq: Sira wa Thikrayat 
Maher Jarar (ed.) Reviewed by Abdel Razzaq Takriti

Variations on Night and Day
Peter Theroux (translator).
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