Description: From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist, "The Map of Love," comes an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world.
Review Quotes: "Soueif is a political analyst and commentator of the best kind." -London Review of Books
"Marvellous. . . . A writer of special importance. . . . Her combination of centred gravity, minute precision and insistent humanity generates highly clarified truth." -The Independent