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| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Books Supplement (January 2002) | London calling |
 | | London is geographically and demographically large, having a population of over seven million. |
 | | She is the embodiment of the Arab prostitutes encouraged to come to London by the rich, but ill-educated, Arabs from the various oilstans who are interested in women capable of speaking their own language and entertaining them with dancing in all-Arab night clubs. |
 | | However, she finds this impossible, as is indicated by her inability entirely to rid herself of her Arab accent, with all its class and cultural implications, and al-Shaykh's novel as a whole suffers from a similar dilemma, since it too is torn between two worlds and two themes. |
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