Table of Contents

Women Writing German Today

• EXCERPT Back to Back (an excerpt)
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• ESSAY "Sex, Death, and Motherhood in the Eurozone," Hester Baer
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• INTERVIEW
  Writing from the Gaps: A Conversation with Julia Franck
  by Alexandra M. Hill

Culture and Conflict

• ESSAY "Sense and Censorship in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Blake Atwood
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• INTERVIEW "Internal and External Borders: A Conversation with Raja Shehadeh," Persis Karim
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• READING LIST WEB EXCLUSIVE
  For Further Reading: Culture and Conflict
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• ESSAY
  A Day That Lingers with Us Still Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
  by Persis Karim
• PHOTO GALLERY WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides
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• ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
  No Ordinary Place: Writers and Writing in Occupied Palestine
  by Rima Najjar Merriman

INTERVIEWS

• "A Conversation with Geoffrey Philp," Erika J. Waters
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• "Finally, Ali Podrimja Spoke” A Conversation, Adam J. Goldwyn & Rineta Hoxha
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• A Brief Conversation with Anna Winger
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ESSAYS

• "An American in Berlin," Claire Messud
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• London and the Grotesque
  by Tessa Ditner
• An American in Berlin
  by Claire Messud

Fiction

• "The White Bridge," Rezo Gabriadze
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Poetry

• Four Poems by Aicha Bassry
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• "Leaving Home," Pia Tafdrup
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• Three Poems, Ali Podrimja
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• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Two Poems by Geoffrey Philp
  by Geoffrey Philp
• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Bilingual Recordings, A Soul at Play by Shizue Ogawa
  by Shizue Ogawa
• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Bilingual recordings: Eight Poems by Aicha Bassry
  by Aicha Bassry

In Every Issue

• International Crime & Mystery: A Conversation with Virginie Brac, J. Madison Davis
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• City Profile: Mumbai
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• New Books: Middle Eastern Memoirs
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• Outpost: Cape Town
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• What to Read Now: Syria
  by Nikolaos van Dam
• Editor's Choice: The Life of Rebecca Jones, Angharad Price
  by Marla Johnson

• EDITOR'S NOTE
  by Daniel Simon

Reading Lists

• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  For Further Reading: Contemporary German Literature
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