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“ibrahim farghali”

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  • The Smiles of the Saints

    A Modern Arabic Novel

    by Ibrahim Farghali ...
    Translated by Andy Smart, Nadia Fouda-Smart ...
    “I have returned to settle my account. . . .”Told through the voices of a group of close friends and spanning a generation, The Smiles of the Saints is an epic story condensed into a short, intricate novel. Twenty-year-old Haneen has just returned to Egypt after an absence of fifteen years spent mostly in a Parisian boarding school, cut off from all family save for sporadic visits from her father, ... Read more

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  • The Stoning of Soraya M.

    A Story of Injustice in Iran

    by Freidoune Sahebjam ...
    Translated by Richard Seaver ...
    Soraya M.’s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn’t afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya’s dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was cooking for a friend’s widowed husband. Exhausted by a lifetime of abuse and hardship, Soraya said ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Inside the Kingdom

    My Life in Saudi Arabia

    by Carmen Bin Ladin ...
    Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women.On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her ex-brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Yacoubian Building

    A Novel

    by Alaa Al Aswany ...
    August Book Sense PickA fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed 'scientist of women.' A purring, voluptuous siren. A young shop-girl enduring the clammy touch of her boss and hating herself for accepting the modest banknotes he tucks into her pocket afterward. An earnest, devout young doorman, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism. A cynical, secretly gay newspaper editor, helplessly ... Read more

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  • Celestial Bodies

    by Jokha Alharthi ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review).In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Butterfly Mosque

    A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

    by G. Willow Wilson ...
    "In this satisfying, lyrical memoir," an American woman discovers her true faith—and true love—by converting to Islam and moving to Egypt ( Publishers Weekly).Raised in Boulder, Colorado, G. Willow Wilson moved to Egypt and converted to Islam shortly after college. Having written extensively on modern religion and the Middle East in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times ... Read more

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  • Miral

    A Novel

    by Rula Jebreal ...
    Translated by John Cullen ...
    Soon to be a major motion picture from the award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto.WRITTEN BY the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine. The story begins with Hind, a woman who sacrifices everything to establish a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Quarter

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by Roger Allen ...
    Series series Saqi Bookshelf
    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 who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This ... Read more

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  • The Baghdad Clock

    Winner of the Edinburgh First Book Award

    by Shahad Al Rawi ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018This number one best-selling title in Iraq, Dubai, and the UAE is a heart-rending tale of two girls growing up in war-torn BaghdadBaghdad, 1991. The Gulf War is raging. Two girls, hiding in an air raid shelter, tell stories to keep the fear and the darkness at bay, and a deep friendship is born. But as the bombs continue to fall and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Corpse Exhibition

    And Other Stories of Iraq

    by Hassan Blasim ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    **A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s Redeployment does for the American perspective“[A] wonderful collection.” —George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review**The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The ... Read more

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  • A Palace in the Old Village

    by Tahar Ben Jelloun ...
    From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Book of Khartoum

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Ali al-Makk, Ahmed al-Malik, Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin, Bawadir Bashir, Rania Mamoun, Bushra al-Fadil, Mamoun Eltlib, Hammour Ziada, Isa al-Hilu, Arthur Gabriel Yak ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning meeting place . Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by Sudan s long, troubled history of forced migration.In the ... Read more

    $7.49 USD