Mirrors

Naguib Mahfouz

• Paperback
• Mirrors is one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's more unusual works. First published in serialized form in the Egyptian television magazine, it consi... Lees meer

Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War

Roger Allen, Thomas Allen

• Hardcover | Engels
• Thomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen's knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser-known ... Lees meer

In Search of Walid Masoud

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Walid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization... Lees meer

What ʿĪsā Ibn Hishām Told Us

Muhammad Al Muwaylihi

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 37
• Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo under British rule What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is a masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic pros... Lees meer

The Quarter

Naguib Mahfouz

• Hardcover | Engels | helf
• Meet 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... Lees meer

Al-Qata'i

Reem Bassiouney

• Hardcover | Engels
• An award-winning novelist's vibrant portrayal of the struggle to create a more unified society in medieval Egypt and how this has shaped Egypt today. ... Lees meer

What ʿĪsā Ibn Hishām Told Us

Muhammad Al Muwaylihi

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 60
• With What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us , the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic pros... Lees meer

Moroccan Folktales

Jilali Koudia

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with gh... Lees meer

My Torturess

Bensalem Himmich

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being involved in jihadist activities. Drugged and carried off the street, ... Lees meer

The Elusive Fox

Muhammad Zafzaf

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Considered one of Morocco's most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostit... Lees meer

The Arabic Novel

Roger Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 1... Lees meer

Remembering Bulloch County

Roger Allen

• Paperback | Engels | American Chronicles
• In this assortment of his best articles, discover why Statesboro Herald columnist Roger Allen attracts a large and devoted Bulloch County following. A... Lees meer

A Muslim Suicide

Bensalem Himmich

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Award-winning novelist Bensalem Himmich's third novel to be translated into English is a vertiginous exploration of one of Islam's most radical thinke... Lees meer

A Period of Time

Roger Allen

• Paperback | Engels | St Antony's Middle East Monographs | nr. 27
• A Study of Muhannad Al-Muwylili's Hadith Isa Ibn Hisham. Lees meer

The Crane

Halim Barakat

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover)
• In The Crane , the renowned Syro-Lebanese author and sociologist Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small v... Lees meer

Endings

Abdul Rahman Munif

• Paperback | Engels
• "Drought. Drought again! When drought seasons come, things begin to change. Life and objects change. Humans change too, and no more so than in their m... Lees meer

Spies, Scandals, and Sultans

• Paperback | Engels | New Dialogues in Philosophy
• Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during ... Lees meer

Monarch of the Square

Muhammad Zafzaf

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco's greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work tra... Lees meer

A Sleepless Eye

Ibrahim Al-Koni

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earth's el... Lees meer

An Introduction to Arabic Literature

Roger Allen

• Hardcover | Engels
• Roger Allen provides a comprehensive introductory survey of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to the pre... Lees meer

The Arabic Literary Heritage

Roger Allen, Allen Roger

• Paperback | Engels
• The Arabic Literary Heritage describes a cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic from the fifth century A.D. to the present day. After two prel... Lees meer

Moon and Henna Tree

Ahmed Toufiq

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Set in the High Atlas in pre-modern Morocco, Moon and Henna Tree chronicles the rise and fall of a local potentate, Hmmu. Not content with the territo... Lees meer

The Heart of Lebanon

Ameen Rihani

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• When 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 Leba... Lees meer

Islam

Roger Allen, Shawkat M. Roorawa

• Paperback | Engels
• In this straightforward and authoritative collection of fifteen essays -- each by a different, specialized expert in the field -- readers will encount... Lees meer