Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery A Novel

"[Taher's] achievement in this book is to express a complex vision despite the possibility of government censorship. Like many Eastern European writers, he chooses an approach that is seemingly direct yet suggests multiple symbolic meanings, encoding implied social criticism in the deeper layers of the tale. His story works well because it refuses to settle finally on any one level, exploiting the ambiguities of its themes with intelligence and a subtle sympathy for different sides."Taher, Bahaa is the author of 'Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery A Novel', published 1996 under ISBN 9780520200753 and ISBN 0520200756.