Zanouba

Out El Kouloub

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Out el Kouloub (1892-1968) is an author whose voice is just becoming heard in the United States. A member of the Muslim aristocracy in Egypt, she wrot... Lees meer

Author and His Doubles

Abdelfattah Kilito

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Michael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the most inv... Lees meer

Gaia, Queen of Ants

Hamid Ismailov

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of ... Lees meer

Packaged Lives

Haifa Zangana

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• The carefully crafted, subtle, and humorous stories in Packaged Lives show Zangana at her best as a fiction writer. She portrays her subjects keenly, ... 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

Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens

Talat Halman

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• The earliest turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods-pr... Lees meer

The Author and His Doubles

Abdelfattah Kilito

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Michael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the most inv... Lees meer

The Committee

Sonallah Ibrahim

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• This wry take on Kafka's novel The Trial revolves around its narrator's attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his country, know... Lees meer

In Search of Walid Masoud

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Adnan Haydar

• 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

Lebanon / Liban

Nadia Tuéni

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• This bilingual anthology, edited by Christophe Ippolito, contains Samuel Hazo's complete translation of Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love and Paul B.... 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

Waiting for the Past

Hadiya Hussein

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Hadiya Hussein's poignant 2017 novel plunges readers into a haunting and powerful story of resilience. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein's brutal reign... Lees meer

A Child from the Village

Sayyid Qutb

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• This autobiography tells of the early years of a person who, in later life, would become one of Egypt's most influential radical Islamist thinkers. Th... Lees meer

Tayeb Salih

Waïl S Hassan

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• This book undertakes the first sustained interpretation of all of Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories that constitute a single narrative cycle. The... Lees meer

Fatma

Raja Alem

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• 'There was a blue cast to Satjma's handsomely sculpted mesmerizing tale of earthbound witchery and celestial love." Fatma, an Arabian peasant girl, un... Lees meer

I, Anatolia and Other Plays

Talat Halman

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Since the middle of the twentieth century, Turkish playwriting has been notable for its verve and versatility. This two-volume anthology is the first ... Lees meer

My Thousand & One Nights

Raja Alem

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of changing from medieval to modern. I... Lees meer

An Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America

Elias Al-Musili, Caesar E Farah

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• In 1905, the Jesuit scholar Antûn Rabbât discovered the writings of Elias al-Mûsili in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. Al-Mûsili, a seventeenth-c... Lees meer

The Pulse of Contemporary Turkish

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• The Pulse of Contemporary Turkish offers a unique glimpse into the vibrant world of Turkish poetry, featuring 172 poems by more than 60 poets, most of... Lees meer

Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems

Qassim Haddad

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad's seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvr... 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

A Cup of Sin

Simin Behbahani

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Simin Behbahani's collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, muc... 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 of... Lees meer

Return to Dar Al-Basha

Hassan Nasr

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