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Episode: Warda: Diary of a Revolutionary
Description: Sonallah Ibrahim's Warda is the story of a female fighter in the 1960s and 70s Dhofar rebellion in Oman, and of the Egyptian intellectual who, decades later, tries to solve the mystery of what happened to her. We discuss the vibrant and mysterious female character at the heart of one of Ibrahim's most ambitious literary projects with scholar, editor and translator Hosam Aboul-ela. As Aboul-ela writes in his introduction to his new translation, Warda is someone who โsomehow manages to embody both the historical and the unimaginable.โย Warda is available, in Hosam Abou-ela's translation, from Yale University Press...