Tenants and Cobwebs

Samir Naqqash

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Nostalgically commemorates the lost culture of an ancient Iraqi Jewish minority living amidst a majority Muslim population in 1940s Baghdad. The plot ... Lees meer

Blood Test

Abbas Beydoun

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Widely known throughout the Arab world as a leading poet, journalist, and literary critic, Abbas Beydoun's writing is infused with the politics and cu... Lees meer

Arabs and the Art of Storytelling

Abdelfattah Kilito

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling , the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, ... Lees meer

The Ant's Gift

Shahrokh Meskoob

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In ... Lees meer

Granada

Radwa Ashour

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• 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 vanqui... Lees meer

In the Alley of the Friend

Shahrokh Meskoob

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• The celebrated and beloved fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez continues to play an essential role in the lives of Iranians today. For centuries, sc... Lees meer

Arabs and the Art of Storytelling

Abdelfattah Kilito

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling , the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, ... Lees meer

The Virgin of Solitude

Taghi Modarressi

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• On the streets of Tehran, Nuri Hushiar knows his blond hair and blue eyes attract attention. While he relishes the attention he cannot avoid the uneas... Lees meer

Hot Maroc

Yassin Adnan

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• With an infectious blend of humor, satire, and biting social commentary, Yassin Adnan gives readers a portrait of contemporary Morocco--and the city o... Lees meer

Abundance from the Desert

Raymond Farrin

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the peri... Lees meer

Thieves in Retirement

Hamdi Abu Golayyel

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Offers a portrait of a marginalized Egyptian community, bringing to life the absurd and tragic characters who occupy the margins of society while payi... Lees meer

Sour Grapes

Zakaria Tamer

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Set 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 rot... Lees meer

Animals in Our Days

Mohamed Makhzangi

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi's unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans--... Lees meer

Hafez in Love

Iraj Pezeshkzad

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• In Pezeshkzad's fictional account, Hafez's life in fourteenth-century Shiraz is a mix of peril and humour. Set in a city that is at once beautiful and... Lees meer

Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language

Abdelfattah Kilito

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and ... Lees meer

All Faces But Mine

Samih Al-Qasim

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• All Faces but Mine gathers selected poems from the acclaimed Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim (1934-2014). A contemporary of Mahmoud Darwish, Al-Qasim ... Lees meer

A Brave New Quest

Talat Halman

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• This anthology features a wide variety of poems about social justice, love, evocations of history, humanitarian concerns, and other themes. It contain... Lees meer

Beyond Love

Hadiya Hussein

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Hussein's starkly beautiful novel Beyond Love plunges us into the 1991 Gulf War and its aftermath. Huda, the young woman at the center of the story, e... Lees meer

Abundance from the Desert

Raymond Farrin

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the peri... Lees meer

The Book of Disappearance

Ibtisam Azem

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are po... Lees meer

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Sahar Mandour

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• In this finely observed novel, five young Lebanese women navigate their professional and social lives in a city interrupted by random explosions. It i... Lees meer

The Story of Joseph

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• At the heart of this volume is the translation of a fourteenth-century Turkish version of the Joseph story, better known to Western readers from the v... Lees meer

Three Tales of Love and Death

Out El Kouloub

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• The heroines of Out El Kouloub's Three Tales tells the stories of Nazira, Zahira, and Zarifa, whose narratives afford the rest of the world a glimpse ... Lees meer

My Bird

Fariba Vafi

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• 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 adap... Lees meer