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  • Un chien de rue bien entraîné

    Traducido por Khaled Osman ...
    Le héros du roman, Ahmad, est un licencié en lettres qui rêve de devenir un grand écrivain et d’obtenir les prix littéraires les plus prestigieux alors qu’il est contraint, pour gagner sa vie, d’écrire de petits romans pornographiques à l’intention des sites internet spécialisés. Il fait la connaissance d’une jeune femme mariée, Nivine, une dévoreuse d’hommes, qui le mêle à ses torrides aventures ... Leer más

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  • Season of Migration to Arkadia

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    Traducido por Humphrey Davies ...
    This short story about the every-day life of working class people in Cairo is the title story from the short collection "Season of Migration to Arkadia" by the Egyptian writer Muhammad Aladdin. It is regarded as one of the five best literary works about the Egyptian revolution, translated by Humphrey Davies. Hamzah, a car mechanic in Cairo, sets his eyes on a beautiful leather jacket. In the ... Leer más

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    de Hisham Matar ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “masterly” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice), “riveting” (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return“A profound celebration of the sustaining power of friendship, of the ways we mold ourselves against the indentations of those few ... Leer más

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  • Out of Place

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    **WINNER OF THE NEW YORKER BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION • From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the lost Arab world of his early ... Leer más

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  • Behind the Veil

    An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia

    de Lydia Laube ...
    "Cardiac resuscitation was often applied to a patient who was fast asleep. The hapless victim woke from a peaceful slumber to find somebody, often an infidel, jumping up and down on his chest." Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia in a society that does not allow women to drive, vote, or speak to a man alone. Wearing head-to-toe coverings in stifling heat, and battling administrative ... Leer más

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  • The Quarter

    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Khartoum

    A City in Short Fiction

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Selected Stories Of The Arabian Nights

    After Sehrazat finished these stories, she turned to Sehriyar and said:"However, dear Padishah, these stories I've told are nothing when compared to the story of the fisherman."When Sehriyar asked:"What kind of a story is it?Sehrazat started to tell the story. ... Leer más

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  • And Then God Created the Middle East and Said 'Let There Be Breaking News'

    de Karl reMarks ...
    `You may wonder why the Middle East gets so much airtime. Well, regions of the world were competing to host the apocalypse and the Middle East won.' Online sensation Karl reMarks disagreed with the idea that reality had become too strange to satirise. Then he read that bin Laden was radicalised by Shakespeare. Since then, Karl has been bringing the best of the Middle East news and views to his ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Istanbul

    A City in Short Fiction

    Featuring:Türker Armaner - Murat Gülsoy - Nedim Gürsel - Muge Iplikci - Karin Karakasli - Sema Kaygusuz - Gönül Kivilcim - Mario Levi - Özen Yula - Mehmet Zaman Saçlioglu.Istanbul. Seat of empire. Melting pot where East meets West. Fingertip touching-point between continents.Even today there are many different versions of the city, different communities, distinct peoples, each with their own ... Leer más

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  • Another Gulmohar Tree

    de Aamer Hussein ...
    Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to return to Karachi, leaving Lydia behind. Two years later, Lydia impulsively abandons her life in London and boards a ship to Karachi, where the two are ... Leer más

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  • A Stranger's Pose

    A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The author's recollections and reflections of fragments of his journeys to African cities, from Dakar to Douala, Bamako to Benin, and Khartoum to Casablanca, offer a compelling and very personal meditation on ... Leer más

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