Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
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The Long Way Back
$19.95 Read moreThe Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. Through exquisite layering of the overlapping worlds of the charac… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al-Takarli, Fuad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 07 2007
- ISBN10: 9774160924
- Language: English
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The Theocrat
$18.95 Read moreThe Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history’s most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah (“the ruler by order of God”), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth ce… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Himmich, Bensalem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 977416251X
- Language: English
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The Heron
$16.95 Read moreOne long winter night and the Cairo neighborhood of Kit Kat stands at a crossroads. Poised like herons fishing on the banks of the Nile, the characters of this novel wait and watch as opportunities sw… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Aslan, Ibrahim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 9774163079
- Language: English
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Rama and the Dragon: An Egyptian Novel
$19.95 Read moreThis multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama–the symbol of multiplicity a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al-Kharrat, Edwar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 30 2014
- ISBN10: 9774166256
- Language: English
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Clamor of the Lake
$16.95 Add to cartClamor of the Lake begins with the appearance of an old fisherman of unknown origin sailing a black boat. Taciturn and enigmatic, he takes on a woman and her twin boys. While he gives away nothing abo
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: El-Bisatie, Mohamed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 9774162412
- Language: English
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Final Night: Short Stories
$16.95 Add to cartLove and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi author who has lived in Cairo since 1979.
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al Nasiri, Buthaina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 9774161157
- Language: English
