Islamic Art Meets British Flowers Amal Nawwar holding and reconciling Earth and

holding and reconciling Earth and Heaven — Life and Death as one reality

growth and death

2002) English-language readers can get to know Saadi Youssef themselves

The Orchid House was republished by Virago Press in 1982 for Virago Modern Classic

Translators extend the writ of the Republic of Humane Letters

Islamic Art Meets British Flowers Amal Nawwar holding and reconciling Earth andHadil Tamim was born in Al Yarmouk Refugee Camp south of Damascus, Syria. Trained in ceramic and Islamic decorative art, for the last two decades she has been living in Reading, where she has turned to her art to create a bridge between two homes and two cultures. Her artworks draw on the architectural forms of the buildings in Reading for structure and colour and the flowers found in and around the town for the arabesque. With excerpts from her