Private Pleasures

Private PleasuresPrivate Pleasures describes the three day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Niles west bank. Pursued by an unshakable sense of impending doom, the narrator observes, with fascinated horror, his own stumbling progress through a world of menace and wonder inhabited by

the distinctiveness which marked these constituencies as variously

Central and South America have emphasized the ability of pig diseases to cross borders rapidly and the importance of global cooperation to improve the health and welfare of pigs

Essays explore the numerous adaptations

Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history

education & learning

together with the organisations which control them

Abani’s work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama

storage and sharing

the essays consider an 'expanded field' of stereoscopic visual culture

more equal and more hopeful society

including its Latin verses and glosses

Milk production requires electrical energy for powering plant equipment