Middle Eastern
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The Principles of Sufism
$19.00 Add to cart‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, ‘A’ishah received a thorough religious educ
- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #4
- Author: Al-B???niyyah, ???ishah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1479829242
- Language: English
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If I Must Die
$17.99 Add to cart“If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.”
This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deep
- Author: Alareer, Refaat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1682196615
- Language: English
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The Meursault Investigation
$17.99 Read moreBest Translated Novel of the Decade – Lit Hub
A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 — Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015, New York Times — TIME Magazine Top Ten Books of 2015 — Publishers Week- Author: Daoud, Kamel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1590517512
- Language: English
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Sumud: A New Palestinian Reader
$24.95 Add to cartAn anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.
Includes twenty-five b- Author: Halasa, Malu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214458
- Language: English
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In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award, In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls is Majda Gama’s first full-length poetry collection.
In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicle
- Author: Gama, Majda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: April 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218516222
- Language: English
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Woman at Point Zero
$14.95 Read moreInternationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi’s landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword.
Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. B- Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0755651480
- Language: English
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If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
$24.99 Add to cart“If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.”
This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deepl
- Author: Alareer, Refaat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1682196216
- Language: English
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Beyond Shattered Glass: Voices from the Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion
$20.00 Read more- Author: Saab, Zeina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717477
- Language: English
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A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
$23.95 Read moreA Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pa
- Author: Alshaer, Atef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863569900
- Language: English
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The Quarter: Stories
$14.95 Read moreMeet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambl… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863563759
- Language: English
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Zan: Stories
$17.95 Add to cartIn prose that is both unflinching and lyrical, Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh presents Zan, a collection of stories that provide a deep and nuanced view of contemporary Iranian women as they navigate a crucial m
- Author: Ehtesham-Zadeh, Suzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1950539938
- Language: English
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Woman at Point Zero
$15.95 Read moreInternationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi’s landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword.
Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. B- Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0755651480
- Language: English
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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
$17.00 Add to cartPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates
Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in w- Series: Library of Arabic Literature
- Author: ??hir, Al-M?yid? Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1479825808
- Language: English
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Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook
$18.00 Add to cartDelectable recipes from the medieval Middle East
This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life,” namely th- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #63
- Author: Perry, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1479800813
- Language: English
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The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism
$16.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism
The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author &#- Series: Library of Arabic Literature
- Author: Al-Qu??t, ?ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1479826278
- Language: English
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Impostures
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1479810568
- Language: English
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The Book of Charlatans
$19.00 Add to cartUncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East
The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth centu- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #82
- Author: Al-Jawbar?, Jam?l Al-D?n ?abd Al-Ra??m
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1479813249
- Language: English
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The Book of Travels
$19.00 Add to cartThe adventures of the man who created Aladdin
The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #86
- Author: Diy?b, ?ann?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1479820016
- Language: English
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Impostures
$48.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1479800848
- Language: English
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A Hundred and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartA luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabi- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #10
- Author: Fudge, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1479873233
- Language: English
