Great Scenes from Past Longing is a collection of poems on what resists completion, what slips between presence and absence, and the restless pursuit of a life claimed as one's own. It's a meditation on the many aspects of longing, its imagined intimacies, its quiet disillusionments, and its enduring hold over memory.

Notes on Fragmentary Solitude is a collection of fragments that explore the tension between love and solitude. Reem presents a perfect blend of emotional authenticity and the pleasure of finally letting go.

What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature transitory?In the wake of the new uprising in Egypt, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East. It argues that the notion of marginality tends to mask the true power relations that perpetuate poverty and exclusion. It is these dynamic processes of poli...