Middle Eastern
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I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
$18.00 Add to cartAfghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet-a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mos
- Author: Griswold, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535183
- Language: English
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Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria
$35.00 Add to cartNPR BEST COOKBOOK 2021
Exploring the connection of food and culture with traditional and contemporary Syrian recipes that were inspired by personal stories “As a Syrian who has had, due to the devasta- Author: Atassi, Anas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 162371897X
- Language: English
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Syria: Recipes for Olive Oil and Vinegar Lovers
$18.00 Add to cartA new cookbook in the series that reveals the best ways to use specialty olive oils and vinegars in international cuisines–now featuring the succulent, flavourful dishes of Syria.
Eating together in
- Series: Recipes for Olive Oil and Vinegar Lovers
- Author: Lycopolus, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1771512814
- Language: English
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War Songs
$17.00 Add to cartPoems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior
From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary war- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #41
- Author: Shadd?d, ?antarah Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 147985879X
- Language: English
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The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
$17.00 Read moreAn anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.
A Penguin Classic The Mirror of- Author: Davis, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0143135619
- Language: English
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The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me
$19.95 Add to cartA BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Asghar, Fatimah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466043
- Language: English
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Divining Poets: Rumi
$17.95 Read moreTurtle Point Press is pleased to introduce the Divining Poets Quotable Deck Series. These elegant, boxed sets of seventy-eight cards ? la tarot decks feature short quotes meant to inspire, provoke, an… [more below]
- Series: Divining Poets: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding:
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1885983719
- Language: English
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NKJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Blue, Red Letter Edition
$19.99 Add to cartThe Thomas Nelson NKJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was desig
- Author: Thomas Nelson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0785215948
- 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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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 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 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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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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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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Impostures
$48.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1479800848
- Language: English
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A Hundred and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartA luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabi- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #10
- Author: Fudge, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1479873233
- Language: English
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Return to Dar Al-Basha
$9.95 Add to cartReturn 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 his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. Afte
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Nasr, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608780
- Language: English
