Showing posts with label book reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book reviews. Show all posts
June 16, 2014

Zanjibar: Wa Akfān min Rahim al’alam (Book Review)

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Laura Goffman is a Ph.D. student in Middle East and North African History at Georgetown University. She also holds an M.A. in Near Eastern S...
May 24, 2014

Speak Swahili Dammit (Book Review)

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James Penhaligon. Speak Swahili Dammit! Trevelyan Publishers. Falmouth, Cornwall, 2012. James Penhaligon is a doctor who grew up on...
July 28, 2013

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (Book Review)

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Amitav Ghosh. Sea of Poppies. New York: Picador, 2008. I've previously reviewed an earlier work from the prolific and brilliant Ami...
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July 10, 2013

Cargoes of the East (Martin and Martin)

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Cargoes of the East: the ports, trade and culture of the Arabian seas and Western Indian Ocean. 
 Esmond Bradley Martin & Chryssee Pe...
February 3, 2013

By The Sea (Book Review)

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by Nate Mathews Reading a Gurnah novel is like savoring a delicate dish of language--each sentence is a bite of beauty and subtle flavor ...

African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Book Review)

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This book review from Dr. Alamin Mazrui can also be found at JSTOR . I reproduce it in full here because it speaks to the methodological i...
January 24, 2013

"Admiring Silence" (book review)

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I asked one of Azanian Sea's readers, Anne Chappel, who is one of Abdulrazak Gurnah's biggest fans, to review one of his works. Here...