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Friendly Fire

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Alaa Al Aswany

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• Arabic title: نيران صديقة
• Translated by Humphrey Davies
• With a Preface by the author

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Our Assessment:

B : solid collection of well-written stories

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  From the Reviews:

• "Fragment by fragment, character by character, Alaa Al Aswany's desolately touching stories paint modern Egypt as a landscape of humiliation, submission and defeat.

  Crushed by the weight of hierarchy and inequality -- in careers, in public life, in sexual and family ties -- his downtrodden toilers and dreamers inwardly rebel, outwardly surrender, an