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Noa Raanan

Oct 31, 2024, 5:11 AM

Reinforcement of Jewish and Israeli Stereotypes in The Lover by Rebecca Sacks

“We walk backwards into a future we cannot see, eyes on the past,” (p. 6) says Allison, the main character of the novel The Lover by Rebecca Bee Sacks. This is just one of the Talmudic ideas Allison, a...

Aug 23, 2024, 12:32 AM

Reading about the Islamic Revolution in a Time of War

In the waiting room of the fertility specialist and while spreading her legs to be inseminated, the narrator of the novel Disoriental, by Negar Djavadi, recounts the tales of her family. Kimiâ Sadr, who fled from Teheran to Paris,...

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Noa Raanan (she/her) is an Israeli-Canadian writer. She worked in the Israeli media and published short stories and nonfiction in Hebrew, English, and German. Her writing was displayed in Granta Hebrew Edition, Jewish Women of Words, Frankfurter Rundschau, Emerging Writers Reading Series and more. Currently, she is studying toward an MFA degree at the University of Guelph and writing a novel.

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