Emerging Voices from the Middle East – serie
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I Want to Get Married!
One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights
Häftad, 2010
394 kr
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The rules may differ from country to country, but the dating game is a universal constant. After years of searching for Mr. Right in living-room meetings arranged by family or friends, Ghada Abdel Aal, a young Egyptian professional, decided to take to the blogosphere to share her experiences and …
Limbo Beirut
Häftad, 2016
252 kr
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In Hilal Chouman’s Limbo Beirut, a gay artist, a struggling novelist, a pregnant woman, a disabled engineering student, a former militia member, and a medical intern all take turns narrating the violent events of May 2008, when Hezbollah militants and Sunni fighters clashed in the streets of …
Using Life
Av Ahmed Naji
Häftad, 2017
249 kr
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Upon its initial release in Arabic in the fall of 2014, Using Life received acclaim in Egypt and the wider Arab world. But in 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison after a reader complained that an excerpt published in a literary journal harmed public morality. His imprisonment …
Dying in a Mother Tongue
Häftad, 2018
200 kr
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This collection of poetry by the celebrated southern Iranian poet and filmmaker Roja Chamankar (b. 1981) introduces English-speaking readers to one of the most accomplished and well-loved poets of her generation. Chamankar’s work blends surrealism and the southern coastal landscape of the poet’s …
Wûf
Av Kemal Varol
Häftad, 2020
200 kr
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Told through the voice of a canine narrator, WÛf is a surrealist wartime love story set in Turkey in the 1990s. The novel follows Mikasa, a street dog who recounts a tale of tragic wartime love at a kennel where he finds solace in storytelling and cigarettes. A book that took the Turkish literary …
My Heart Became a Bomb
Häftad, 2021
200 kr
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My Heart Became a Bomb is the first collection of poetry by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq to be translated into English. Poignant and raw, these poems take the reader along a path of forced emigration from Bashar al-Assad's prisons in Syria to Amsterdam to Auschwitz to Berlin, Germany, …
Bed for the King's Daughter
Häftad, 2021
202 kr
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A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King’s Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as women’s agency, the decline of collective life and …
I Want Golden Eyes
Häftad, 2025
214 kr
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A girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society's secrets in this sci-fi novel in translation.I Want Golden Eyes is set on the Comoros Islands at the end of this century in a futuristic city called Quartzia, the home of a genetically privileged minority called the Golden Eyes. …
Thunderbird
Book One
Av Sonia Nimr
Häftad, 2022
196 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, Society of AuthorsA Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world.The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian …
Thunderbird
Book Two
Av Sonia Nimr
Häftad, 2022
196 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, Society of AuthorsA Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world.The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian …
I Saw Her in My Dreams
Av Huda Hamed
Häftad, 2023
202 kr
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I Saw Her in My Dreams is a powerful novel about interpersonal and systemic violence, examined through the lens of a relationship between Zahiyya, an anxious middle-class Omani artist, and Faneesh, the Ethiopian domestic worker she hires. When Zahiyya’s husband Amer, a novelist, leaves for Zanzibar …
Thunderbird
Book Three
Av Sonia Nimr
Häftad, 2024
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
227 kr
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The third book in a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure trilogy centered on a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to save the world.In the third and final book of the Thunderbird trilogy, Noor finds herself in Byzantine Jerusalem, in the year …
Fear in the Middle of a Vast Field and Other Stories
Av Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa, Alice Holttum
Häftad, 2025
235 kr
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Short stories by a celebrated playwright bare the horrors of the Syrian civil war.A selection of stories by Syrian author and playwright Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa about characters enduring the horrors of the Syrian civil war. With exquisite wit and lightness of touch, Almosa portrays the internal …
