Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on Isis
$27.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Persecuted for much of the 20th century, they dared to try to overcome social fra
- Series: Kairos
- Author: Biehl, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639443
- Language: English
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Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story
$20.00 Add to cartJOE SACCO MEETS PERSEPOLIS IN THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM A NEW INTERNATIONAL TALENT, HAMID SULAIMAN–WINNER ENGLISH PEN AWARD—It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian… [more below]
- Author: Sulaiman, Hamid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 162371995X
- Language: English
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Joyas de la Familia / Family Jewels
$18.95 Read more«Mi cerebro no guarda secretos, ni recuerdos ya. Es una c?rcel con techo de paja en la que los recuerdos reposan la parranda y despu?s se van.
Rub?n Pablo Alcocer tiene 54 a?os, es detective p- Author: Avil?s, Sergio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 6073823576
- Language: Spanish
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Murder in Jerusalem
$16.99 Add to cartThe sixth and final novel from beloved and critically-acclaimed Israeli crime novelist Batya Gur–a stunning tale of a beautiful and secretive woman’s murder, set against the politically charged backd
- Series: Michael Ohayon #6
- Author: Gur, Batya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0060852941
- Language: English
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Velvet
$18.95 Read moreWinner of The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
Winner of the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary TranslationA novel of enormous power and great beauty, in which a Palestinian woman
- Series: Hoopoe Fiction
- Author: Habayeb, Huzama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 9774169301
- Language: English
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The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
$27.95 Add to cartTranslations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Sutzkever, Avrom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1438472501
- Language: English
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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
$17.00 Add to cartPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates
Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in w- Series: Library of Arabic Literature
- Author: ??hir, Al-M?yid? Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1479825808
- Language: English
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Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook
$18.00 Add to cartDelectable recipes from the medieval Middle East
This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life,” namely th- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #63
- Author: Perry, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1479800813
- Language: English
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The Disoriented
$19.99 Add to cartAfter 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 522
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1642860581
- Language: English
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Escape
$34.99 Add to cartTehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions explode and the Shah is forced to flee Iran. A British helicopter company–secretly owned by the Noble House of Hong Kong–with a fleet of helicopters r
- Series: Asian Saga #6
- Author: Clavell, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798212378369
- Language: English
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Palestina En Pedazos / Palestine in Pieces
$23.95 Read moreUn gran cuaderno de reflexiones en el que la autora funde lecturas y recuerdos sobre la tierra que sus ancestros se vieron obligados a abandonar en busca de una nueva vida.
«Una escritora delibe… [more below]- Author: Meruane, Lina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8439742304
- Language: Spanish
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The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism
$16.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism
The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author &#- Series: Library of Arabic Literature
- Author: Al-Qu??t, ?ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1479826278
- Language: English
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Impostures
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1479810568
- Language: English
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The Book of Queens
$17.00 Read moreA book of history, heritage, loyalty, religion, feminism, families, and the Armenian genocide
The Book of Queens is a family saga that spans four generations of women caught up in the tragic whirlwind- Author: Haddad, Joumana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717094
- 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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Fade
$22.99 Add to cartA former Navy SEAL who speaks perfect Arabic, Salam al-Fayed (a.k.a. “Fade”) had been one of the deadliest weapons in America’s arsenal–until a mission gone wrong put a bullet in his back, requiring … [more below]
- Author: Mills, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0312335784
- Language: English
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Gaza Weddings
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Time of White Horses and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee
Twin sisters Randa and Lamis live in the besieged Gaza Strip. Inseparable to the point that even their mother cannot tel- Series: Hoopoe Fiction
- Author: Nasrallah, Ibrahim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 12 2017
- ISBN10: 9774168445
- Language: English
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Life and Death in Ephesus: A Short Story Collection
$29.99 Add to cartI shall reveal the true story of the destruction of the temple of Artemis…
For over a thousand years, Ephesus, on the Aegean coast of what is now modern Turkey, was a thriving city. It was the site o
- Author: McQuade, Finlay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986256474
- Language: English
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The Septembers of Shiraz
$16.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sofer, Dalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0061130419
- Language: English
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City of a Thousand Gates
$16.99 Read moreWINNER OF THE JANET HEIGINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION
“The novel showcases the humanity, tragedy, and complexity of life in the West Bank. . . . The characters’ interwoven lives will stay with you long
- Author: Sacks, Bee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063011484
- Language: English
