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28 produkter
Among the Almond Trees
A Palestinian Memoir
Inbunden, 2022
200 kr
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A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home.Palestinian writer Hussein Barghouthi was in his late forties when he was diagnosed with lymphoma. He had feared it was HIV, so when the cancer diagnosis was confirmed, he left …
Blue Light
Av Hussein Barghouthi, Fady Joudah
Inbunden, 2023
215 kr
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The Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language.Hussein Bargouthi tells his story with Bari, a Turkish American Sufi, during Bargouthi’s years as a graduate student at the University of Washington in the late 1980s. The Blue …
Where the Bird Disappeared
Inbunden, 2018
177 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards Translation Prize.This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the porousness of memory. It tells the story of the relationship between two figures of deep …
Book of Sleep
Häftad, 2021
202 kr
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Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature.What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states—metaphorically called death’s shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence—be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? …
Passage to the Plaza
Inbunden, 2020
343 kr
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In Bab Al-Saha, a quarter of Nablus, Palestine, sits a house of ill repute. In it lives Nuzha, a young woman ostracized from and shamed by her community. When the Intifada breaks out, Nuzha’s abode unexpectedly becomes a sanctuary for those in the quarter: Hussam, an injured resistance fighter; …
Universe, All at Once
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2024
202 kr
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A collection showcasing the latest poems of the Kurdish-Syrian maestro of Arabic style.Salim Barakat, the captivating Kurdish-Syrian poet and novelist known for his mastery of Arabic style, is hailed as an enigmatic and intricate figure in contemporary Arabic literature. In The Universe, All at …
Iron Grasshopper
A Childhood Autobiography; The Incomplete Biography of a Child Who Saw Nothing but a Fugitive Land, So He Shouted: These Are My Traps, O Sandgrouse!
Inbunden, 2026
197 kr
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Through vivid vignettes and lyrical prose, The Iron Grasshopper transcends memoir, immersing readers in the poignant and turbulent realities of a Kurdish childhood in mid-twentieth-century Syria. Kurdish-Syrian poet and novelist Salim Barakat, one of the most distinctive writers in contemporary …
Describing the Past
Inbunden, 2016
198 kr
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When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp — a centre of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Israel razed the camp following the Battle of …
Significant Year
Inbunden, 2019
195 kr
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On the eve of the 2007 general elections in Morocco, writer, academic, and former cabinet minister Abdallah Saaf embarked on several road trips across the country to get a feel for how its citizens had fared since Mohammed VI’s accession to the throne. A Significant Year is the result: an analysis …
Baghdad, Adieu
Selected Poems of Memory and Exile
Inbunden, 2018
255 kr
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Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Arabic; once he was released form prison, he …
Law of Inheritance
Inbunden, 2018
219 kr
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This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, radical politics, and the first steps towards the making of a writer. But his story is not told in isolation: through his experiences and memories …
Ice
Inbunden, 2019
204 kr
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The year is 1973. An Egyptian historian, Dr. Shukri, pursues a year of non-degree graduate studies in Moscow, the presumed heart of the socialist utopia. Through his eyes, the reader receives a guided tour of the sordid stagnation of Brezhnev-era Soviet life: intra-Soviet ethnic tensions; Russian …
Come, Take a Gentle Stab
Selected Poems
Inbunden, 2021
204 kr
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Although Salim Barakat is one of the most renowned and respected contemporary writers in Arabic letters, he remains virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. This first collection of his poetry in English, representing every stage of his career, remedies that startling omission. Come, Take a …
Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion
Inbunden, 2022
216 kr
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An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor.On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel, reflecting on his life: working in a dance club on the Israeli side of the border, scratching his …
Turban and the Hat
Inbunden, 2022
242 kr
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A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of a young Egyptian. The Napoleonic-era French invasion and occupation of Egypt are often seen as the Arab world’s first encounter with the military and technological prowess of the West—and it came as a …
Firefly
Inbunden, 2022
268 kr
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A powerful novel of a young man living between Muslim and Christian worlds amid the Lebanese Civil War. Firefly paints a searing portrait of the city of Beirut at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in the early 1970s, as seen through the eyes of its simple, yet perplexing, protagonist, Nizam …
Strangers in Light Coats
Selected Poems, 2014–2020
Häftad, 2023
213 kr
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A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time.Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of the most important poets writing in Arabic. Since the publication of his first collection in 1980, …
Postcards from the Underworld – Poems
Av Sinan Antoon
Häftad, 2023
202 kr
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A chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloved’s home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that …
Screams of War
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2024
202 kr
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Lyrical and powerful poems that serve as a powerful reminder of the human cost of war.“Those who believe in the currency of patience / Were burned out in the alleyway.”The Screams of War is a visceral collection of poems that confront the realities of contemporary Syria. Akram Alkatreb’s verses …
Ever Since I Did Not Die
Av Ramy Al-Asheq, Levi Thompson
Häftad, 2024
144 kr
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Through seventeen powerful testimonies, Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy Al-Asheq's Ever SInce I Did Not Die is a poignant autobiographical journey that vividly depicts what it means to live through war.The texts gathered in Ever Since I Did Not Die by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy Al-Asheq are a …
This Thing Called Love
Av Alawiya Sobh
Häftad, 2025
252 kr
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A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death.Just before the outbreak of the July 2006 war in Lebanon, a middle-aged woman named Nahla has gone missing. Distraught, besieged, and without any leads, Nahla’s dearest …
Town I Never Told You About
Poems, 2022–2024
Häftad, 2026
215 kr
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A haunting, lyrical meditation on memory, loss, and homeland, with the poems threading together the personal and the collective in a Palestine shaped by conflict and beauty.The Town I Never Told You About gathers poems written by celebrated Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan between 2022 and 2024, at …
Star of August
Häftad, 2026
254 kr
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A piercing portrait of the Egyptian nation in upheaval in the 1960s—and a powerful critique of progress made at a human cost.In the summer of 1965, a journalist newly released from prison finds himself stranded at the sprawling site of the Aswan High Dam, the flagship project of Gamal Abdel …
Third Bank of the Jordan River
Häftad, 2026
215 kr
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A dreamlike novel from Palestine that traces a restless soul’s journey through landscapes of memory, longing, alienation, and exile.In this profound and evocative novel, acclaimed Palestinian author Hussein Barghouthi invites readers on an extraordinary, youthful journey through a landscape of …
Stillborn
Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt
Av Arwa Salih
Häftad, 2027
286 kr
Kommande
A poignant reckoning with the Marxism of a generation and its militant postcolonial intellectuals.Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, founded in the wake of the Arab–Israeli War and the vibrant Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. …
Describing the Past
Häftad, 2027
238 kr
Kommande
Three survivors circle a village, a death, and one another.When he was seven years old, the acclaimed Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp—a fierce center of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site …
Maryam
Keeper of Stories
Av Alawiya Sobh
Inbunden, 2016
276 kr
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This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of women’s experiences amid this sprawling, region-defining conflict. In Alawiya Sobh’s hands, the details of everyday life mix with female voices from across classes, sects, and generations to create an indelible …
Stillborn
Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt
Av Arwa Salih
Inbunden, 2018
221 kr
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Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and the Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. Written more than a decade after Salih quit the party and left political life and published shortly …
