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The Sixth Finger

By خيري الذهبي

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2018

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As drought, poverty and strange births unsettle nineteenth-century Damascus, religious hardliners interpret Ibrahim Pasha’s reforms and the arrival of ideas from the French Revolution as signs of the devil. Outside, newspapers and theatre are condemned; inside Bernardo’s house, Arwa plays with an image of a body combining male and female. Khairy Alzahaby mixes history, myth and popular storytelling to examine modernity, superstition, gender ambiguity and the violence directed at those who fall outside accepted categories.

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