Turkish writer Elif Shafak´s first novel, Pinhan, won the Rumi Prize in 1998. More than a decade later, it´s fitting that her newest book, The Forty Rules of Love, circles back to the 13th cen...More >>

  By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, February 23, 2010 "The Forty Rules of Love" (Viking, 354 pages), by Elif Shafak: Before he became a world-famous poet and Sufi mystic, a re...More >>