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A Father’s Corpse Journeys Across War-Torn Syria in This Masterly Novel
DEATH IS HARD WORKBy Khaled Khalifa “I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a…
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Khaled Khalifa: Syria has new stories every day and we must tell the world about them
Khaled Khalifa lives in Damascus and sets his books in his birthplace of Aleppo. He tells us why he chooses…
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Khaled Khalifa’s ‘Death Is Hard Work’ sheds light on life in the shadows of the Syrian War
Khaled Khalifa and the cover of the novel “Death is Hard Work” – English Edition “If you really want to…
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In Praise of Hatred
Khaled and english cover of In Praise of Hatred I was honoured to be asked to write the introduction to…
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Living in a void: life in Damascus after the exodus
My sister, whom I haven’t seen for more than two years, told me she was going to cross the sea…
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Khalid Khalifa: The writer is a realist and understands truth and human traits
Syrian novelist Khalid Khalifa: The writer is a realist and understands truth and human traitsBorn in Aleppo in 1964, award-winning…
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Review: ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ Describes a Syrian Hell
Aleppo has essentially fallen. The images have been unignorable, calamitous: of residents wandering numbly through burning city streets; of parents…
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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khaled Khalifa review – rage and shame in Syria
Were Syrians wise to revolt? Aren’t they worse off now? Such questions misapprehend the situation. Syrians didn’t decide out of…
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A True Loss in Translation: The Edited English Version of Khaled Khalifa’s ‘In Praise of Hatred’
Khaled Khalifa, speaking at Duke University in February 2016, suggested he had not been notified of his publisher’s decision to…
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Khalifa: lover of two cities, chronicler of a country
Khaled Khalifa (Photo courtesy of Syria Speaks) Even as his reputation grows beyond the borders of Syria, the writer’s works…
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