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✨ Borrowed Faces / Issue No. 1 by Fehras Publishing Practises ✨
"New and exciting stories in Borrowed Faces transporting you to the age of the Cold War in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa and the hidden practices of publishing culture there. The first issue of the photo novel takes you to Beirut in the year 1960. Hala Haddad, a Syrian-American researcher, travels from London to Beirut to find a translator and publisher for her PhD. Arriving at the same moment is Huda Al-Wadi, an Iraqi translator coming from Baghdad to work at the Soviet Union Magazine in Beirut. The two young women come across Haifa-born Afaf Samra, owner of Al-Sharq bookstore and expert of the city’s cultural life, in the heart of the Hamra district. A new friendship sparks between the three women and is weaved around common interests, exchanges of ideas, love and frivolity. Things become complicated when Hala and Afaf enter a professional relationship with the American Franklin Book Programs and when Huda discovers hidden truths about the Soviet book market. A chain of events unfolds and brings together the three women in an experience rife with contradictions and inner struggles in a cultural environment dominated by patriarchy, and the powers of money and politics.

If you have a taste for thrilling stories, books and publications, don’t miss out on Borrowed Faces because our magazine opens onto a world of fun and knowledge about publishing culture, history and fiction."
Existing in english and arabic version.
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