Middle East Literature in Translation
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The Man of Middling Height
$24.95 Add to cartWhat if our society’s deepest prejudices weren’t about race, gender, or sexuality–but height? In his groundbreaking allegorical novel, acclaimed Jordanian author and activist Fadi Zaghmout imagines j
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Zaghmout, Fadi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0815611854
- Language: English
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The Heart of Lebanon
$44.95 Add to cartWhen celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to the
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Allen, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0815611293
- Language: English
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All Faces But Mine: The Poetry of Samih Al-Qasim
$24.95 Add to cartAll Faces but Mine gathers selected poems from the acclaimed Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim (1934-2014). A contemporary of Mahmoud Darwish, Al-Qasim was a celebrated resistance poet whose passionate … [more below]
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Al-Qasim, Samih
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0815610521
- 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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Jerusalem Stands Alone
$19.95 Add to cartBy turns bleak, nostalgic, and lighthearted, Jerusalem Stands Alone explores the interconnected lives of its mostly Palestinian cast. This series of quick moving vignettes tells the story of occupied … [more below]
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Shukair, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 16 2018
- ISBN10: 081561103X
- 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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In Search of Walid Masoud
$26.95 Add to cartWalid 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, sus
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 081560646X
- Language: English
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Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems
$14.95 Add to cartChronicles 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 central poem,
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Haddad, Qassim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0815610378
- Language: English
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Return to Dar Al-Basha
$9.95 Add to cartReturn 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. Afte
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Nasr, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608780
- Language: English
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Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy
$49.95 Add to cartThis monumental family saga offers a vivid portrait of Egypt’s Mamluk period, one that is at both sweeping in scope and intimate in detail. Set in medieval Cairo, the novel centers on three generation
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Bassiouney, Reem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0815611412
- Language: English
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Sour Grapes
$17.95 Add to cartSet in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Tame
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Tamer, Zakaria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611544
- Language: English
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Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt
$19.95 Add to cartShajar al-Durr, known as Tree of Pearls, was one of the most famous Arab queens and the only woman in the medieval Arab world to rule in her own name. Her narrative is one element of a much larger sto
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Zaydan, Jurji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 081560999X
- Language: English
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The Committee
$22.95 Add to cartThis wry take on Kafka’s novel The Trial revolves around its narrator’s attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his country, known simply as “the Committee.” Consequences for his
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Ibrahim, Sonallah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0815607261
- Language: English
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Granada
$24.95 Add to cartRadwa 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 A- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Ashour, Radwa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0815607652
- Language: English
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The Book of Disappearance
$19.95 Add to cartWhat 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
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Azem, Ibtisam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12, 2019
- ISBN10: 0815611110
- Language: English
