<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for "Matar, Hisham"]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for "Matar, Hisham"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/tahq/rss/search?query=%22Matar%2C%20Hisham%22&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:07:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[My Friends]]></title><description><![CDATA["One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode in tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, an exile, unable to leave England, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would jeopardize their safety. When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face to face with Hosam Zawa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him, but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S89C1044051</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S89C1044051</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matar, Hisham]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1044051089</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780812994841/MC.GIF&amp;client=petoskeypac2&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Return]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballah Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning." This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S89C782124</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S89C782124</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matar, Hisham]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/782124089</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780812994827/MC.GIF&amp;client=petoskeypac2&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anatomy of A Disappearance]]></title><link>https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S89C646068</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S89C646068</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matar, Hisham]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/646068089</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385340441/MC.GIF&amp;client=petoskeypac2&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anatomy of a Disappearance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees her, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri’s father with whom Mona falls in love and whom she eventually marries. And their happiness consumes Nuri to the point where he wishes his father would disappear.<br>Nuri will, however, soon regret what he wished for. His father, long a dissident in exile from his homeland, is taken under mysterious circumstances. And, as the world that Nuri and his stepmother share is shattered by events beyond their control, they begin to realize how little they knew about the man they both loved.<br><i><br>Anatomy of a Disappearance</i> is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that have won Hisham Matar tremendous international recognition. In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, he asks: When a loved one disappears, how does their absence shape the lives of those who are left?]]></description><link>https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C536757</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C536757</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matar, Hisham]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tahq.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/536757980</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307966797/MC.GIF&amp;client=petoskeypac2&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>