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  • The Dissenters

    A Novel

    de Youssef Rakha ...
    A transgressive novel by an acclaimed writer that spans seventy years of Egyptian historyCertain as I’ve never been of anything in the world that you have a right or a duty to know, that you absolutely must know, I sail through the mouth of that river into the sea of her life.Amna, Nimo, Mouna—these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Postmuslim

    A Testimony

    de Youssef Rakha ...
    An ambitious and timely essay collection exploring what it means to be Arab-Muslim in the twenty-first centuryPostmuslim, Youssef Rakha’s debut essay collection, tells the story of Islam’s clash with the West in the last thirty years from a perspective rarely available to the Western reader. Impassioned, intimate, erudite, and playful, these essays trace Rakha’s intellectual and spiritual ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Ploughshares Fall 2025

    de Jenny Molberg, Juliana Lamy, Eric McMillan, Youssef Rakha, Daisy Rockwell, Fortunato Salazar, Heather Thompson-Brenner, Andrea Thurairatnam Imdacha, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Mary Winsor ...
    The Fall 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2025 issue features longform ... Leer más

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  • The Dissenters

    de Youssef Rakha ...
    Amna, Nimo, Mouna - these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her death in 2015, her son, Nour, ascends to the attic of their house where he glimpses her in a series of ever more immersive visions: Amna as a young woman forced into an arranged marriage in the 1950s, a coquettish student of French known to her confidants as Nimo, a self-made ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy

    de Youssef Rakha ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Brilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way. It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy (1969), tracing the many meanings of Egypt’s postcolonial modernity and touching on Arab, Muslim, and ancient Egyptian ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Crocodiles

    A Novel

    de Youssef Rakha ...
    Traducido por Robin Moger ...
    Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, prose poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amid a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex, clumsy but determined intellectual bravado, and retranslations of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded

    Volume One

    Traducido por Humphrey Davies ...
    de Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī ...
    Series Libro 18 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish—offering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Arab Porn

    Pornografie und Gesellschaft

    de Youssef Rakha ...
    Traducido por Milena Adam ...
    Series Libro 3 - punctum
    Was unterscheidet den arabischen Porno von seinem westlichen Pendant? Die Motive? Die Einstellungen, Perspektiven? Die Techniken? Mit Begeisterung untersucht der ägyptische Schriftsteller und Journalist Youssef Rakha in diesem aufregenden englischsprachigen Essay, den er auf Arabisch so nicht hätte schreiben dürfen, das ebenso verfemte wie verbreitete Genre der östlichen und der westlichen ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Emissaries

    and other short stories

    de Youssef Rakha ...
    Narrado por Omar Sultan, Lucy Brownhill, Philip Arditi ...

    Completo

    4 hora 59 minutos

    What might William Burroughs be doing in Tahrir Square at the height of the Egyptian revolution of 2011? Was there really a radical atheist insurgency in New Cairo? Where in extant science fiction do people go when they die? In these Cairo-focused stories written at the height of the Arab Spring, in its wake and its ruins, the reader is led by a colorful cast of characters through a hypnagogic ... Leer más

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  • Perfect Victims

    And the Politics of Appeal

    de Mohammed El-Kurd ...
    PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERUSA TODAYBESTSELLER“Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.”**—Robin D. G. KelleyPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode t... ... Leer más

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2022

    de Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer ...
    Series series Best American
    A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. ... Leer más

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  • Against the Loveless World

    A Novel

    de susan abulhawa ...
    Arab American Book Award Winner2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist2020 Palestine Book Awards WinnerLonglisted for Rathbones Folio Prize“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden world... ... Leer más

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