The novel’s stake is on digging deep into sectarianism – another aspect of its greatness. It is bound to provoke some commotion, but also to encourage dialogue.

Mohammad Barrada: ‘a novel with a great linguistic wealth, a seductive plot and a humanistic vision’.
“It appears that the question of the novel’s «references» has solicited the critic’s [referring to a previous critique by Nabil Suleiman] interests and made him evoke other texts having the same references to the Syrian Alaouite sect, guided by the novel’s political and ideological dimensions. He goes by unaware of the novel’s pattern, woven by Samar Yazbek, which uses these references as a backdrop, and goes beyond their reality, taking the novel into the realm …

Beirut book fair’s opening is scheduled for this evening, as officials make speeches and honor its alleys.

Samar Yazbek, Syrian author of “Cinnamon” and “Clay” has recently published a novel in Beirut, “In her mirrors”.

Samar Yazbek, author of ‘Clay’ and ‘Cinnamon’, has very recently published ‘In her mirrors’, that RAYA agency also represents for world translation rights.

On May 17th 2010, the Italian leading magazine Grazia reviewed Samar Yazbek’s novel, Cinnamon, recently published by Castelvecchi.