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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. ... -
Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings Ghassan Kanafani 9780745349374
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.24'No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani' - Mohammed El-Kurd, author of Rifqa 'I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a moral role in the... -
For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri 9781846590108
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and... -
Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative Isabella Hammad 9781911717379
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted author of Enter Ghost'Combines intellectual brilliance with moral... -
Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £27.50After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected... -
A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings by Coleman Barks 9780060845971
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845971Author Coleman BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint -
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan 9780863564789
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. heart-warming connections and... -
Rumi Poems by Peter Washington 9781841597690
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer... -
Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship by Coleman Barks
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.22Now in paperback, considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, "The Big Red Book" is one of the masterpieces of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the most popular... -
Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature by 9780863561757
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years. From the... -
The Kashf al-Mahjub (The Revelation of the Veiled) of Ali b. 'Uthman al-Jullabi Hujwiri. An early Persian Treatise on Sufism by Reynold A. Nicholson 9780906094372
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094372Author Reynold A. NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Im -
In Tangier by Mohamed Choukri 9781846590610
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64For much of the twentieth century, Tangier stood at a crossroads of cultures, creativity and chaos. Its labyrinthine streets and vivid contradictions attracted adventurers and artists, forming the... -
Moroccan Folktales by Jilali El Koudia 9780815611011
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal... -
I Saw Ramallah by Muraid Barghauthai
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032662Author Mourid BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint
Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources by Samar Attar 9781498550468
Booksplease Price: £51.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World by Jörg Matthias Determann 9780755650361
Booksplease Price: £31.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Modern Arabic Literature by M. M. Badawi 9780521028530
Booksplease Price: £43.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt 9780691205168
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for...
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 2 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.71Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,...
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.44Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,...
Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald by Robert D. Richardson 9781620406533
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620406533Author Robert D. RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imp
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi...
The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Development of its Genres and Criticism by Roger Allen 9780521485258
Booksplease Price: £56.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence: Law Under the Fatimids by Agostino Cilardo 9781780761299
Booksplease Price: £42.36Researchers have shed light on the literary production of the Ismailis since the early 1930s. The cataloguing of these work has been carried out by Ivanow, Fyzee, Goriawala, Poonawala, Gacek, Cortese...
The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African...
Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk: Beyond the Bridge by Hande Gürses 9781793625762
Booksplease Price: £75.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Arrested Movement in the Middle East: Mobility and Political Dissent in Arab and Palestinian Culture Drew Paul 9780755656721
Booksplease Price: £85.65How has cultural production from the Middle East responded to two simultaneous and contradictory trends: growing ease of global mobility brought about by advances in transportation and communication...
Autobiographies of Orhan Pamuk: The Writer in His Novels by Michael McGaha 9780874809305
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874809305Author Michael McGahaFormat HardbackPage Count 213Imprint
Moroccan Folktales by Jilali El Koudia 9780815607892
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.21Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal...
The Rhetoric of Biography: Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies by L. Marlow 9780674060661
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96In the context of a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and...
Arabs and the Art of Storytelling: A Strange Familiarity by Abdelfattah Kilito 9780815635185
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He...
The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability by Anna Ziajka Stanton
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70WINNER, ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly...
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.15Jayyusi presents in English translation a Palestinian world view characterized by intensity, paradox, aspiration, and eloquence. Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature will certainly become...
Giving Voice to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature by Barbara McKean Parmenter
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37"A struggle between two memories" is how Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish describes the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Within this struggle, the meanings of land and home have been...
Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story by Nawar Al-Hassan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose...
In a Persian Mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction by M. R. Ghanoonparvar
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the 1980s astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable. In this...
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff by Deborah A. Starr
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew...
Zeina by Nawal El Saadawi 9780863563553
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Distinguished literary critic Bodour is trapped in a loveless marriage and carries with her a dark secret. She fell in love in her youth and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, whom she...
An Introduction to Arab Poetics by Adonis
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Poetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book one of the foremost Arab poets reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of the pre-Islamic poetry of Arabia...
Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems by Qassim Haddad 9780815610373
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Winner of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award 2013.Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad's...