She’s been described as “the Maya Angelou of Iraq.” In 2010, Faleeha Hassan’s success forced her to leave her homeland and most of the people she dearly loved. She learned that year that her name was on a list of writers and artists marked for death by a militant group.
In 2019, the long-running Penguin Classics series released its first novel translated from Arabic: Tawfiq al-Hakim’s "Return of the Spirit", conveyed into English by William Hutchins. Al-Hakim wrote his popular novel in Paris in 1927 and published it in Cairo six years later, in 1933. Marcia Lynx Qualey read the book
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