"Insufficiently Westernized"
Nov 06, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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Episode description
We discuss two novels set in Iraq -- one featuring a despondent policeman, and one featuring a determined grandma and her donkey. Also, how John Updike once dismissed the great Saudi writer Abdelrahman Mounif as "insufficiently Westernized" to write a novel.
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