A M Khalifa: 4 books

Sex, betrayal, religious hypocrisy, and deep moral corruption in pre-revolutionary Egypt The place, Cairo, Egypt. The time, a few years before the Arab Spring. When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, self-restraint and reason fly out of the window. Humiliation rests on his...

The Box - Episode 1 An Italian vintner discovers a dead woman clutching a flash drive, inside an abandoned car on his estate near the town of Pienza. Fingerprints reveal the murdered woman to be an American FBI agent, on the run for the last seven months after stealing valuable evidence from...

From a Muslim woman tormented by forbidden love for her Jewish neighbor, to an Italian housewife trying to break out from a history of violence and sexual repression through her own devious means,Paper Cut Hearts is a collection of soul-rinsing stories of reinvention, redemption and retribution.

A scandalous look at the Italian middle class Like many Italian middle-aged women, Donatella is locked in a loveless, sexless marriage. Just when things couldn't possibly get worse, her husband Mauro gives her a "surprise" that adds insult to injury. With her back against...