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Feast and Fight: A New Adaptation of “Samak the Ayar”
The tale of a Persian Robin Hood who hoodwinks his enemies yet keeps a stern moral code.
Kevin Blankinship
Kevin Blankinship is a professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University and a contributing editor at New Lines Magazine. He tweets at @AmericanMaghreb
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Rushdie’s Deal with the Devil
Thirty years on from the release of "The Satanic Verses," Kevin Blankinship considers the Rushdie Affair and how it overshadowed the author's novel.
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