The Game of Forgetting

Mohammed Berrada’s The Game of Forgetting (L'ubat al-Nisyan 1987) tells the stories of various members of a Moroccan family during from the French Protectorate and since Independence, focusing on how the psychological games of memory and forgetting impact experience. Berrada has also written a novel with the title Woman of Forgetting (Imraʼat al-nisyān, 2001), and both novels published …

Being Abbas El Abd

Being Abbas El-Abd (2006) by Ahmed Alaidy is not as wickedly funny and sharp as it is touted to be. It's a little depressing. It's inspired by Chuck Palahniuk - and as this review notes, the influence shows. "Being Abbas el Abd has a theme and plot – and a twist ending – so similar …