My Review of Selma Dabbagh's "Out of It"

One of the reasons for my increasingly lax relationship to this blog has been that I've been writing for other publications, including our local newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer.  One of them  appeared this past Sunday, of a new book by Selma Dabbagh, Out of It.
The review begins:
In September, Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy spray-painted over a poster in the New York subway, calling it hate speech. The ad read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."

read more here:
http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2012/11/selma_dabbaghs_first_novel_out.html