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Alif 41: Journal of Comparative Poetics: Literature, History, and Historiography by Ziad Elmarsafy
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $120.84A wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between history and literatureThis issue of Alif explores the relationship between literature and history. What do history and literature have to say... -
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $68.54Jayyusi 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07"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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Authors 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44The 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: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.89The 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.43Distinguished 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: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.80Poetry 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: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.82Winner 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... -
Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts by Keith E. Small 9780739177532
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Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives by Angelika Neuwirth
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.76Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. Organised around the central themes of... -
The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices by Konrad Hirschler 9780748677344
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $50.41How the written text became accessible to wider audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most bookish cultures of their period. Using a wide variety of... -
Islam on the Street: Religion in Modern Arabic Literature by Muhsin Al-Musawi 9780742562073
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Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights by Paulo Lemos Horta
RRP: $36.95Booksplease Price: $32.78Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations... -
In the Alley of the Friend: On the Poetry of Hafez by Shahrokh Meskoob 9780815636175
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53The celebrated and beloved fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez continues to play an essential role in the lives of Iranians today. For centuries, scholars have studied his work, exploring both his... -
Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers by Farzaneh Milani 9780815602668
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Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled by Eric Ormsby 9781780761329
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Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer by Homa Katouzian 9781860644139
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Art & War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction by Lavie Tidhar 9781910924044
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel's most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum - Tidhar in the north of Israel in the... -
A Grammar of the Arabic Language (Two Volumes in One) by William Wright 9781616405335
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Grammar of the Arabic Language (Two Volumes in One) by William Wright 9781646796564
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Abundance from the Desert: Classical Arabic Poetry by Raymond Farrin
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500aEURO""1250 c.e., it features... -
Veil and Lipstick: Three Modern Arab Women Writers by Thomas Zimmerman 9780692135846
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Beirut, Imagining the City: Space and Place in Lebanese Literature by Ghenwa Hayek 9781838607067
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Sufism and Transcendentalism: A Poststructuralist Dialogue Between Rumi and Whitman by Elham Shayegh 9781793616012
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Persian Literature as World Literature by Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard 9781501354229
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Who Is a Muslim?: Orientalism and Literary Populisms by Maryam Wasif Khan 9780823290130
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Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story: Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender by Alessandro Columbu 9780755644131
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Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story: Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender by Alessandro Columbu 9780755644094
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Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran: Captivity, Neo-Orientalism, and Resistance in Iranian-American Life Writing by Hossein Nazari 9780755617364
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Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel: Politics, Poetics and Modernity by Lorenzo Casini (University of Messina, Italy) 9780755646319
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Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Arabic Novel by Kifah Hanna 9781137548702
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An Arabic-English Lexicon (in Eight Volumes), Vol. I: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious Eastern Sources by Edward W Lane 9781616404871
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An Arabic-English Lexicon (in Eight Volumes), Vol. I: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious Eastern Sources by Edward W Lane 9781616404864
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An Arabic-English Lexicon (in Eight Volumes), Vol. VI: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious Eastern Sources by Edward W Lane 9781616404772
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The Rhetoric of Violence: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Contemporary Palestinian Literature and Film by Abdel-Malek 9781403964052
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Writing Displacement: Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction by Akram Al Deek 9781349953196
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Diary of a Child Called Souad by Nawal El-Saadawi 9781137589354
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The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights by David Ghanim 9781108425360
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The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric by Na Na 9780312228101
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