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MICHAL BONCZA recommends a striking collection of images on the state of the Arab world
Mona Hatoum Over My Dead Body, 2005 (left) and (right) Batoul S’Himi World Under Pressure, 2012
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
GENERAL Vo Nguyen Giap, who masterminded the Vietnamese wars of liberation against both the French and the US, was fond of saying that his most reliable re-supply of weapons always came from his enemies.
Those words spring to mind while paging through the book Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art— it is exactly what most of these Arab artists have done.
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