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  • Traces of Enayat

    by Iman Mersal ...
    Translated by Robin Moger ...
    From one of the preeminent poets of the Arabic-speaking world, a brilliant work of creative nonfiction retracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature's tragic heroine."A subtle and universal exploration of identity."—Aida Alami, The New York TimesCairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Motherhood and Its Ghosts

    by Iman Mersal ...
    Translated by Robin Moger ...
    Series series Undelivered Lectures
    Continuing her investigation into the archive, Iman Mersal sifts through representations of one of history’s most elusive figures—the hidden mother.No one excluded my mother from our joint portrait. It is before me now and I can see for myself that I was with her, but she is a ghost. The picture is a burden: an assault on, and fabrication of, what I remember. It doesn’t make my mother present; it ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Middle East Exceptionalism

    Unfinished Social Movements

    by Peyman Vahabzadeh, Abigail B. Bakan, Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Navid Pourmokhtari, Juan Cole, Mariam Georgis, Tariq Ali, Bessma Momani, Melissa Finn0, Michael Frishkopf1, Guilnard Moufarrej2, George Mürer3, Carolyn Ramzy4, Jonathan Shannon5, Nermeen Youssef6, Iman Mersal7, Ramin Jahanbegloo8, Roozbeh Safshekan Esfahani9, Paul Rowe0, amina wadud1, Poyraz Kolluoglu2, Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani3, Nermin Allam4, Mark Muhannad Ayyash5, Khaled Abou El Fadl6 ...
    Series series
    More than a decade after the birth of contemporary social movements in the Middle East and North Africa scholars are asking what these movements have achieved and how we should evaluate their lasting legacies. The quiet encroachments of MENA counterrevolutionary forces in the post-Arab Spring era have contributed to the revival of an outdated Orientalist discourse of Middle East exceptionalism, ... Read more

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  • The Threshold

    Poems

    by Iman Mersal ...
    Translated by Robyn Creswell ...
    A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt's premier poet.Iman Mersal is Egypt's—indeed, the Arab world's—great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo's legendary literary bohème, a home for "Lovers of cheap weed and awkward confessions / Anti ... Read more

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  • Traces of Enayat

    by Iman Mersal ...
    Translated by Robin Moger ...
    When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great – yet forgotten – novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend, who had been Egypt's biggest movie star at the time; she is given access to Enayat's diaries. Mersal can't accept, as has been widely speculated ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Traces of Enayat

    by Iman Mersal ...
    Narrated by Jeed Saddy ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    "A subtle and universal exploration of identity." —Aida Alami, the New York TimesCairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age twenty-seven. For the next three decades, it's as if Enayat never existed at all.Years later, when celebrated Egyptian poet Iman Mersal stumbles upon Enayat's long-forgotten Love and Silence in a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Advanced Arabic Literary Reader

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