Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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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 Queens
$17.00 Read moreA book of history, heritage, loyalty, religion, feminism, families, and the Armenian genocide
The Book of Queens is a family saga that spans four generations of women caught up in the tragic whirlwind- Author: Haddad, Joumana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717094
- Language: English
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Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi: An Ottoman Novel
$14.95 Add to cartAhmet Midhat Efendi’s famous 1875 novel Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrou
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Efendi, Ahmet Mithat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610645
- Language: English
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Fade
$22.99 Add to cartA former Navy SEAL who speaks perfect Arabic, Salam al-Fayed (a.k.a. “Fade”) had been one of the deadliest weapons in America’s arsenal–until a mission gone wrong put a bullet in his back, requiring … [more below]
- Author: Mills, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0312335784
- Language: English
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Gaza Weddings
$16.95 Read moreFrom the author of Time of White Horses and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee
Twin sisters Randa and Lamis live in the besieged Gaza Strip. Inseparable to the point that even their mother cannot tel- Series: Hoopoe Fiction
- Author: Nasrallah, Ibrahim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 12 2017
- ISBN10: 9774168445
- Language: English
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Life and Death in Ephesus: A Short Story Collection
$29.99 Add to cartI shall reveal the true story of the destruction of the temple of Artemis…
For over a thousand years, Ephesus, on the Aegean coast of what is now modern Turkey, was a thriving city. It was the site o
- Author: McQuade, Finlay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986256474
- Language: English
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The Septembers of Shiraz
$16.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sofer, Dalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0061130419
- Language: English
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City of a Thousand Gates
$16.99 Read moreWINNER OF THE JANET HEIGINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION
“The novel showcases the humanity, tragedy, and complexity of life in the West Bank. . . . The characters’ interwoven lives will stay with you long
- Author: Sacks, Bee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063011484
- Language: English
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An Unlasting Home
$21.99 Add to cart“So fresh and unsettling that it will enchant you from the first page and linger for days after reading…Its epic family saga style echoes that of Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses and The Arsonists’ City, Ay
- Author: Al-Nakib, Mai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063135108
- Language: English
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Writing in the Dark
$19.00 Add to cartProfound essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country’s most respected and best-loved voices
Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation b- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 031242860X
- Language: English
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We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers
$21.95 Add to cartArab women have been the subject of male fantasies and myths about the East for centuries, while for many within the Arab world today, women who confess to sexual pleasure are still taboo. But Arabic … [more below]
- Author: Dabbagh, Selma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 086356397X
- 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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Death Is Hard Work
$18.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greates
A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war- Author: Khalifa, Khaled
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1250251079
- Language: English
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Life and Death in Ephesus: A Short Story Collection
$16.99 Add to cartI shall reveal the true story of the destruction of the temple of Artemis…
For over a thousand years, Ephesus, on the Aegean coast of what is now modern Turkey, was a thriving city. It was the site o
- Author: McQuade, Finlay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986256481
- Language: English
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Allah’s Spacious Earth
$22.95 Add to cartAllah’s Spacious Earth is a stunningly fresh and timely political dystopia that depicts the tragic yet very real consequences of tensions between majority populations and Muslim minorities in the West
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Sayfo, Omar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611552
- Language: English
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Nimrod Flipout
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer–“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren’t” (Yann Martel, author o
- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0374222436
- 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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O Jerusalem: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
$20.00 Add to cartAt the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England’s green and pleasant land, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes’ enigmatic brother, Mycr… [more below]
- Series: Mary Russell Novels (Paperback) #1
- Author: King, Laurie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0553383248
- Language: English
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Alif the Unseen
$16.00 Add to cart“G. Willow Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people. You should read what she writes.”–Neil Gaim… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, G. Willow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0802121225
- Language: English
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Lojman
$16.95 Add to cartWINNER of the Republic of Consciousness Prize!
Abandoned by her husband, marooned by an epic snowstorm, a mother gives birth to her third child. Her sense of entrapment turns into a desperate rage in t
- Author: Ojen, Ebru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868982
- Language: English
