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  • Music stylistics

    by Naseer shamma, Luke leafgren ...
    Series Book 1 - مشروع كلمة للترجمة
    The contents of this book can be summarized as music stylistics‭: ‬its study‭, ‬its theories‭, ‬and its importance‭. ‬In addition‭, ‬it examines some practical examples of creativity that represent high artistic achievement and are worthy of study‭. ‬The book also investigates points of convergence between music and the other arts‭, ‬such as poetry‭. ‬It includes a stylistic study of some of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The President's Gardens

    by Muhsin Al-Ramli ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting".Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ.On the third day of Ramadan, the villa... ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tale of a Wall

    Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom

    by Nasser Abu Srour ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    Longlisted for the National Book AwardLonglisted for the PEN Translation PrizeA passionate prison memoir from a Palestinian man incarcerated for over 30 years in an Israeli prison—equal parts metaphysical love story and cry for justice“[A] kind of prose poem…that recalls the memoirs of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish”—New York Times“Fierce and lyrical . . . a devastating testament to the... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Garden and the Jungle

    How the West Sees the World

    by Edwy Plenel ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    An award-winning French journalist’s far-ranging critique of Europe’s betrayal of universal values and equal rights as war and right-wing populism spread worldwide, with a new introduction for U.S. readers.“Europe is a garden…It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity, and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build…Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • Dates on My Fingers

    An Iraqi Novel

    by Muhsin al-Ramli ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    Saleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him in more than a decade. Noah looks and acts like a new man, and Saleem sets out to discover the mystery of his father's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shalash the Iraqi

    by Shalash the Iraqi ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans – as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals – this novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written 'live' by 'Shalash' during and after the Second Iraq War. Never written to be published, all but lost save for disintegrating printouts treasured by its devotees, Shalash the Iraqi is here ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

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    Shalash the Iraqi

    by Shalash ...
    Narrated by Neil Shah ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 48 min

    Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans—as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals—this novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written "live" by "Shalash" during and after the Second Iraq War. Shalash the Iraqi is here presented in its first authorized translation, with the blessing and commentary of "Shalash" himself.The second ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The President's Gardens

    by Muhsin Al-Ramli ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...
    Series series MacLehose Press Editions

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite-Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq"A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting"Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi ChristOn the third day of Ramadan, the village ... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A History of the Present

    by Pankaj Mishra ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR • Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeOne of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise ... Read more

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  • What Is Islam?

    The Importance of Being Islamic

    by Shahab Ahmed ...
    A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversityWhat is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we ... Read more

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  • Lessons from Surah Yusuf

    by Yasir Qadhi ...
    Series series Pearls from the Qur'an
    Yasir Qadhi is one of America's most well-known and influential Muslims. He regularly delivers talks at major Muslim events and is sought after, as a speaker, by Muslim organisations throughout the world.yasir Qadhi has nearly a MILLION Facebook followers and he has over 150k YouTube subscribers - with some videos featuring him with close to a MILLION views.This book represents the first ... Read more

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