Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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An Unlasting Home
$21.99 Add to cart“So fresh and unsettling that it will enchant you from the first page and linger for days after reading…Its epic family saga style echoes that of Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses and The Arsonists’ City, Ay
- Author: Al-Nakib, Mai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063135108
- Language: English
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Writing in the Dark
$19.00 Add to cartProfound essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country’s most respected and best-loved voices
Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation b- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 031242860X
- Language: English
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We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers
$21.95 Add to cartArab women have been the subject of male fantasies and myths about the East for centuries, while for many within the Arab world today, women who confess to sexual pleasure are still taboo. But Arabic … [more below]
- Author: Dabbagh, Selma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 086356397X
- Language: English
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The Book of Charlatans
$19.00 Add to cartUncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East
The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth centu- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #82
- Author: Al-Jawbar?, Jam?l Al-D?n ?abd Al-Ra??m
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1479813249
- Language: English
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Death Is Hard Work
$18.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greates
A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war- Author: Khalifa, Khaled
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1250251079
- Language: English
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Life and Death in Ephesus: A Short Story Collection
$16.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986256481
- Language: English
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Allah’s Spacious Earth
$22.95 Add to cartAllah’s Spacious Earth is a stunningly fresh and timely political dystopia that depicts the tragic yet very real consequences of tensions between majority populations and Muslim minorities in the West
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Sayfo, Omar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611552
- Language: English
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Nimrod Flipout
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer–“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren’t” (Yann Martel, author o
- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0374222436
- Language: English
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The Book of Travels
$19.00 Add to cartThe adventures of the man who created Aladdin
The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #86
- Author: Diy?b, ?ann?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1479820016
- Language: English
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O Jerusalem: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
$20.00 Add to cartAt the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England’s green and pleasant land, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes’ enigmatic brother, Mycr… [more below]
- Series: Mary Russell Novels (Paperback) #1
- Author: King, Laurie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0553383248
- Language: English
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Alif the Unseen
$16.00 Add to cart“G. Willow Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people. You should read what she writes.”–Neil Gaim… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, G. Willow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0802121225
- Language: English
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Lojman
$15.95 Read moreWINNER of the Republic of Consciousness Prize!
Abandoned by her husband, marooned by an epic snowstorm, a mother gives birth to her third child. Her sense of entrapment turns into a desperate rage in t
- Author: Ojen, Ebru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868982
- Language: English
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Einstein in the Attic
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Literary Titan Award, Firebird Book Award, Maincrest Media Book Award, Best Book Award Finalist by The American Book Fest, and THREE honorable mentions at the prestigious New York, Holly
- Author: Dargos, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 108806843X
- Language: English
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In the Country of Men
$18.00 Add to cartLibya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts… [more below]
- Author: Matar, Hisham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0385340435
- Language: English
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The Panther
$19.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille returns with another heart-pounding John Corey thriller–this time including Corey’s FBI agent wife Kate Mayfield… and their mission is to catch an e… [more below]
- Series: John Corey Novel #6
- Author: DeMille, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1455540218
- Language: English
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Egyptian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales
$30.00 Read moreThe legends and the tales of Ancient Egypt are a wonderful source of knowledge, gathered here in Flame Tree’s popular series of collections and stories.
A new collection of epic tales collected in the- Series: Gothic Fantasy
- Author: Naunton, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1804175889
- Language: English
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In Search of Walid Masoud
$26.95 Add to cartWalid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, sus
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 081560646X
- Language: English
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Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems
$14.95 Add to cartChronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad’s seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The central poem,
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Haddad, Qassim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0815610378
- Language: English
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Daughters of Smoke and Fire
$17.00 Read moreAn award-winning novel, Ava Homa’s Daughters of Smoke and Fire is the unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published… [more below]
- Author: Homa, Ava
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 141974660X
- Language: English
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De Niro’s Game
$14.99 Add to cartChildhood best friends Bassam and George have grown to be men in war-ravaged Beirut. Now they must choose between the only two futures available to them: to stay in the devastated city and consolidate
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hage, Rawi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0061470570
- Language: English
