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Rayyan Al-Shawaf is a writer and book critic in Beirut. His reviews have appeared in Bookforum, the Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Globe and Mail, Miami Herald, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, San Antonio Express-News, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times, and elsewhere.