Author: Maryam Bastawicy

Fiction 

Parallel Universes

August 3, 2019August 2, 2019 Maryam Bastawicy 0 Comments CairoContra, fiction, her, him, love, Maryam Bastawicy, Parallel Universes, plants

~Her~  When someone asks about my hobby, I say plants. They don’t get it, thinking I am trying to sound

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Fiction Short Stories 

Centers

July 17, 2019July 19, 2019 Maryam Bastawicy 0 Comments Cairo Contra, Centres, fiction, From Another Realm, Maryam Bastawicy

“I felt like I have always had that idea at the back of my mind. That it wasn’t me in

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Bibliomane 

The Forty Rules of Love: Friendship or Spirituality?

July 8, 2019July 18, 2019 Maryam Bastawicy 0 Comments Book Review, Cairo Contra, Dervish, Elif Shafak, love, Maryam Bastawicy, Spirituality, Sufism, The Forty Rules of Love, Turkey

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak I’m sure all of you have been intrigued by the widespread reception

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How to Be a Woman or Rather Just How to Be Yourself

March 14, 2019June 27, 2019 Maryam Bastawicy 0 Comments books, feminist, review, Womanhood, women

How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran   I consider myself to be a big fan of Emma Watson;

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Take Your Books Out on a Date

February 14, 2019June 27, 2019 Maryam Bastawicy 0 Comments books, Bookshelf, Cairo Contra, coffee shop, date, good book, literature, Maryam Bastawicy, Outdoor, outdoors, read, Reading

(source) As someone who loves reading, I (hopefully not just me) always have this struggle that time isn’t and never

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If You Were a Bamboo Stalk Where Would You Choose to Grow?

September 17, 2018June 27, 2019 Maryam Bastawicy 0 Comments Alsanousi, Bamboo Stalk, Book Review, Cairo Contra, Kuwait, Maryam Bastawicy, migrant, motherland, Phill, poverty, Saud, society

Saq Al-Bamboo (The Bamboo Stalk) by Saud Alsanousi first published in Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers, 2012. “It’s my destiny to

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Fiction Short Stories 

Incense

June 11, 2018June 27, 2019 Maryam Bastawicy 0 Comments Egypt, friendship, girl friends, incense, making friends, musk, new people, new places, ramadan, ramadan spirit, Saudi Arabia, tannoura, white musk

  When my parents told me we’re moving to Egypt, I knew my whole world would never be the same.

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