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  <title><![CDATA[شيكاجو]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[علاء الأسواني]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 08 11:43:31 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 10 10:50:43 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried, but this is one of the few books I just didn't enjoy enough to keep going on.  Too many stories of horrible men treating women badly.  Just not a book I wanted to finish...]]></body>
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    <review id="38277276">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 19:58:56 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 10 18:23:28 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It’s a bit appalling that I haven’t written about Chicago by now, because I actually finished it a while ago. My reluctance to write has nothing to do with my impression of the book, because I must say, I really liked it - more than I expected to.  Not in a “I can’t part with this book” so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38277276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41697167">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 01:06:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 01:13:02 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book!  I found by this book by accident, and Mr. al Aswany is just a beautiful writer.  The conversation flows and by the end of the book, I wasn't ready to let go of these characters.  I've always been interested in the immigrant experience and to watch it unfold among people fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41697167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40401724">
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 14:03:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 18 14:18:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Chicago would make a much better movie than a novel.  In a format like the movie Crash, Chicago follows several parallel story lines that are loosely connected through the university where Egyptian students and expatriates teach and study.  The biggest flaw with the novel is in the translati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40401724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69451904">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 30 11:23:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 30 11:28:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[كتبت هذه المراجعة في منتدى الإقلاع قبل مدة بمعرفي <br/><br/>شيكاجو .علاء الأسواني<br/><br/>بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم<br/><br/><br/>رواية شيكاغو لعلاء الأسواني<br/><br/><br/><br/>العنوا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69451904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56726858">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 20 06:44:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 22 03:12:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[تدور القصة حول مجموعة من الطلبة المصريين الذين أبتعثوا لإكمال دراساتهم العليا في مجال الطب وتحديداً في تخصص الهيستولوجي (علم الأنسجة) في إحدى جامعات شيكاجو. تبدأ ال...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56726858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38537188">
    <user id="1741426">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 24 10:28:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 10:29:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[يختلف الاديب المصري علاء الاسواني عن غيره من الادباء المصريين فهو نقلة نوعية واضحة في تاريخ الرواية المصرية بشكل خاص والرواية العربية عامة...الرواية في طبعتها الساد...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38537188">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55552841">
    <user id="1760721">
    <name><![CDATA[Hadil]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon May 25 22:19:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[when this book first came out .. i read the first chapter and then followed the story of shaymaa and tarek til the very end. skipping the rest of the novel! it is so compartmentalized that this actually worked! this time i'm reading it all. thats because i like alaa elaswany's non fiction essays. my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55552841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54998390">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 05 05:25:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[الكتاب مشوق رائع في لغته أنتقال الكاتب في سطوره <br/><br/>من أناس لأناس يجعلك تتشوق أكثر الى نهايته <br/><br/>برأيي أساء الكاتب الى كتابه بإيراد بعض المفردات الفاحشه و بعض ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54998390">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45432895">
    <user id="1997368">
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 00:02:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 05 04:01:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[الرواية واحده من أروع الروايات التى قرأتها فى حياتى على الإطلاق .. تفوقت على عمارة يعقوبيان فى وجهة نظرى وكانت أجرأ سياسيا وخلقت لنفسها عالما فريدا بشخصياته متألقا ب...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45432895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60834425">
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    <name><![CDATA[ميدو]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 23 15:06:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 12 15:32:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[صراحة يا علاء، صراحة، كتابك دا إهانة لشيكاجو وكرامتها وأهلها<br/><br/>معقول يا راجل، تخلط كدا بين جامعة شيكاجو وجامعة ايلينوي في شيكاجو<br/><br/>&quot;استبدّ به الطرب&quot; دي ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60834425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55572921">
    <user id="2304205">
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    <location><![CDATA[tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun May 10 10:10:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[سبب نجاح علاء الإسواني ليس سوى بساطة الطرح الذي أحبه العامة كثيراً .. هو يتكلم عن أشياء مكبوتة داخلهم .. الجنس التعصب الديني سب الحكام ..وبهذا تفاعل الجميع ..<br/><br/>هذا ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55572921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53698212">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 23 06:10:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[شخصية محمد صلاح أثرت فى بشكل مباشر على اتخاذ قرار مصيرى فى حياتى ...اعتقد انى اشبه كثيرا الشاب صديق شيماء فى أوجه عدة <br/><br/>لم يعجبنى الاكثار من استخدام الجنس فى الرا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53698212">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71686225">
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 18 12:08:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[القصة تتكلم عن التأثير السياسة على حياة الفرد وتحولاتها <br/>والقناعات وتغيراتها والستور الأقنعة التي تغلفنا سواء الدينية أو غيرها ..وعن حال الأقليات .. كنقد اجتماعي ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71686225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50803444">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up from the library on a whim, because the cover and premise looked interesting.  It's a translated Egyptian novel, about life in Chicago mostly from the perspective of Egyptian students and emigres.  <br/><br/>Overall, this was pretty engaging and it was instructive (and often depre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50803444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50293338">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 24 10:12:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like in a chess game, Dr. Al-Aswani kills all of the players and keeps the last two(not literally). He did the same thing in his first novel.<br/><br/>If books were rated, I’d rate this one “R” for nudity and sexual scenes….and I’m not sure if Dr. Al-Aswani is obsessed with sexual scenes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48413436">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a different read. It takes place in Chicago, between faculty members and students at The University of Illinois Medical School - a lot of the characters being Egyptian muslims.<br/>We follow a group of these - some rooting for change in Egypt, others only wan to forget and move on with the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46734297">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jun 06 21:34:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was by no means boring, and it definitely kept me reading with its Crash/Syriana-style story telling with multiple narratives intertwined.  However, even though it was interesting, it was at times too graphic for me.  Moreover, the book was fundamentally flawed.  Even though the author was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38787861">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 20 07:40:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended in the Washington Post and I expected a dense, literary meditation on geopolitics--sort of an Egyptian version of an Orhan Pamuk novel.  It turned out to be a pulpy, soapy drama about Egyptian grad students come to the States for a few years to complete their studies.  Fran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36042343">more...</a>]]></body>
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