The Halva-Maker Mary Griese

The Halva-Maker Mary GrieseThe Halva Maker (in Arabic, Al Halwani, 2022) is a three part novel, contributes through the medium of fiction to this different interpretation of the historical record, in that its third segment, entitled The Kurd, is set during the final years of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt and the attempts by Amaury (Almaric), Crusader King of Jerusalem, to take advantage of the weaknesses of the Egyptian regime. A central figurethe Kurd of the sections titleis

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature

And thus we shall live on the frontline

however thickly

‘I Threw Myself at You’

as one Amazigh Muslim dynasty—the Almoravids—is challenged and eventually replaced by a yet more conservative movement—the Almohads

perfectly precise and commanding

Damsi Figueroa

as an unconscious act of protest

Hedonist and wannabe playwright Olga Adessi

with his wife Patricia Latour

and his portrayal of the Caribbean upper-class – at least in its own self-perceptions – is unrivalled