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Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems
Häftad, 2014
188 kr
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Winner of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award 2013.Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad’s seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The …
Granada
A Novel
Av Radwa Ashour
Inbunden, 2003
335 kr
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Radwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population. The novel follows the family of Abu Jaafar, the bookbinderdashhis wife, widowed daughter-in-law, her two children, and his two …
In the Alley of the Friend
On the Poetry of Hafez
Häftad, 2019
314 kr
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The celebrated and beloved fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez continues to play an essential role in the lives of Iranians today. For centuries, scholars have studied his work, exploring both his life and his deeply moving poetry of love, spirituality, and protest. Yet, Shahrokh Meskoob is one …
When Darkness Falls
Häftad, 2027
297 kr
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Set on a Baghdad university campus in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, When Darkness Falls unfolds across a single spring semester in the life of Dr. Nouman Mahmood, an aging professor who dreams of only one thing: retirement. Once a young idealist drawn to movements promising social justice and …
Book of Disappearance
A Novel
Av Ibtisam Azem
Häftad, 2019
296 kr
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What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem's powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors …
My Bird
Av Fariba Vafi
Inbunden, 2009
335 kr
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In this powerful story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and motherhood, Fariba Vafi gives readers a portrait of one woman's struggle to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. The narrator, a housewife and young mother living in a low-income neighborhood in Tehran, dwells upon her …
House of the Edrisis
A Novel, Volume One
Häftad, 2024
251 kr
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Celebrated Iranian novelist Ghazeleh Alizadeh’s The House of the Edrisis is a novel deeply rooted in historical and cultural significance inviting readers into a world of revolution, power, and societal transformation. The story revolves around a once-affluent aristocratic family and their majestic …
House of the Edrisis
A Novel, Volume Two
Häftad, 2025
251 kr
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"Like all revolutions, this one too has led to a regime more despotic than the one it replaced." So observes an omniscient narrator in Ghazaleh Alizadeh’s monumental novel The House of the Edrisis, offering a darkly comedic glimpse at the aftermath of an unnamed twentieth-century uprising. In this …
Zanouba
A Novel
Häftad, 1996
251 kr
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Set in late 19th and 20th-century Egypt, this novel offers a window on the everyday lives of cloistered women and the way they interact with each other and with male relatives, spouses and other men.
In Search of Walid Masoud
A Novel
Häftad, 2024
251 kr
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Walid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, suspicion arises that he has gone underground as part of a political movement. Masoud leaves behind a …
Cup of Sin
Selected Poems
Av Simin Behbahani, Farzaneh Milani m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
335 kr
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Written over a 50-year period, this work reflects the experiences that have shaped recent Iranian history: revolution and war.
In Search of Walid Masoud
A Novel
Inbunden, 2000
351 kr
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When Palestinian intellectual, Walid Masoud disappears, suspicion arises that he may have gone underground as part of a political movement. Masoud leaves behind a lengthy tape recording which is transcribed by each of his comrades in a series of monologues narrating their own experiences.
Committee
A Novel
Inbunden, 2001
298 kr
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Writing in an intriguingly symbolic and minimalist style, author Sonallah Ibrahim has been called the Egyptian Kafka. And no wonder. This wry take on Kafka’s The Trial revolves around its narrator’s attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his country, known simply as "the …
Fugitive Light
A Novel
Inbunden, 2002
296 kr
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An Arab artist in Tangier grapples with political and erotic issues in this pivotal work by the most celebrated Moroccan author of the past twenty-five years. Cosmopolitan Tangier, heart and soul of Morocco, sets the stage for this smoldering novel of dreams and lovers, both before and after the …
Moroccan Folktales
Inbunden, 2003
290 kr
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Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savoured, studied or simply treasured. …
Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America
The Travels of Elias Al-Mûsili in the Seventeenth Century
Av Elias Al-Musili, Caesar E Farah m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
297 kr
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Reverend Antûn Rabbât, a respected Jesuit scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, discovered these extraordinary writings in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. Rabbât immediately transcribed into Arabic those portions relating to the remarkable experiences of Reverend …
My Bird
Av Fariba Vafi
Häftad, 2019
185 kr
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In this powerful story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and motherhood, Fariba Vafi gives readers a portrait of one woman’s struggle to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. The narrator, a housewife and young mother living in a low-income neighborhood in Tehran, dwells upon her …
Sleeping in the Forest
Stories and Poems
Av Sait Faik, Talat S. Halman m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
286 kr
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Sait Faik may well be named "the Turkish Chekhov". In Turkey, critics and readers regard him as their finest short story writer. Since his death in 1954 at the age of forty-eight, his stature has grown on the strength of his narrative art, which is both realistic and whimsical with a poetic touch. …
Child from the Village
Av Sayyid Qutb, John Calvert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
279 kr
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This autobiography tells of the early years of a person who, in later life, would become one of Egypt's most influential radical Islamist thinkers. This memoir - a document of substantial historical value - tells of Sayyid Qutb's childhood in the village of Musha in Upper Egypt. The book documents …
Lebanon
Poems of Love and War, Bilingual Edition
Av Nadia Tueni, Christophe Ippolito
Häftad, 2006
139 kr
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This is a newly translated collection of poetry - in a bilingual edition - by Francophone writer Nadia Tueni, including more than forty selected poems, together with articles on Tueni's work. This book comprises both Christophe Ippolito and Paul B. Kelley's never-before translated Sentimental …
Time Between Ashes and Roses
Häftad, 2004
253 kr
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In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (which he liberally excerpts and remolds), the modernism of William Carlos Williams, and the haunting urban imagery of Baudelaire, Cavafy, and Lorca. Three long poems allow him to explore profoundly the human …
Night of the First Billion
Av Ghada Samman
Inbunden, 2005
267 kr
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Set in Geneva, Switzerland, around the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, this intricately plotted novel probes the emotional misfortunes of Arab men and women fleeing the horror of war only to find their ways of life constantly challenged by their foreign surroundings. The author's scalding …
Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens
Turkish Love Poems
Av Talat Halman, Talat S. Halman m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
219 kr
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The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since the love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods - pre-Islamic, Ottoman classic, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad spectrum: virtual all types and varieties …
Brave New Quest
100 Modern Turkish Poems
Av Talat Halman, Talat S. Halman m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
296 kr
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This book contains a representative selection of modern Turkish poems that conveys in faithful translations the full spectrum of Turkish emotions, humor, intellectual explorations, joys, and agonies. This anthology features a wide variety of poems about social justice, love, evocations of history, …
Distant Train
A Novel
Inbunden, 2007
298 kr
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While the fading autumn sun sped toward the horizon, the young boys headed home - they were not used to trying to see at night without the moon's glow. So begins this uncoventional, hauntingly mythic novel. In the tradition of magical-realism, author Ibrahim Abdel Megid crafts a tale steeped in …
My Thousand and One Nights
A Novel of Mecca
Av Raja Alem
Inbunden, 2007
336 kr
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The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of transformation from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in ""My Thousand and One Nights"", women hold center stage - especially Jummo, the wildly …
Return to Dar Al-Basha
A Novel
Av Hassan Nasr
Inbunden, 2006
139 kr
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Return to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. After being taken from his mother and raised in his father's home where he was physically abused and …
Contemporary Iraqi Fiction
An Anthology
Av Shakir Mustafa, Shakir Mustafa
Inbunden, 2008
302 kr
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The first anthology of its kind in the West, ""Contemporary Iraqi Fiction"" gathers work from sixteen Iraqi writers, all translated from Arabic into English. Shedding a bright light on the rich diversity of Iraqi experience, Shakir Mustafa has included selections by Iraqi women, Iraqi Jews now …
Canceled Memories
A Novel
Inbunden, 2009
139 kr
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Set during the Lebanese civil war, this novel chronicles the splintering of the Al-Mukhtars, a Lebanese family whose love and trust for one another is strained by the increasing economic, social, and psychological tensions that surround them. Huda, feeling helpless as a housewife, pursues a career …
