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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.73From 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. ... -
The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature by Robert Irwin 9780141441887
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this unique collection provides a profound insight into the sheer vitality and depth of Classical Arabic literature... -
Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings Ghassan Kanafani 9780745349374
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $28.96'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: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06Driven 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: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23An 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... -
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan 9780863564789
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95This 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: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.76It 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: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.52Now 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: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95A 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: $72.20Booksplease Price: $63.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094372Author Reynold A. NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Im -
A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings by Coleman Barks 9780060845971
RRP: $55.08Booksplease Price: $34.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845971Author Coleman BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 2 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $30.86Every 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: $38.00Booksplease Price: $29.85Every 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,... -
In Tangier by Mohamed Choukri 9781846590610
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.42For 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: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.40Drawing 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: $32.30Booksplease Price: $20.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032662Author Mourid BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt 9780691205168
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $23.67Reflections 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...
Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald by Robert D. Richardson 9781620406533
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $27.11Apologies 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: $57.00Booksplease Price: $47.90The 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 Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.44Eloquent 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...
Autobiographies of Orhan Pamuk: The Writer in His Novels by Michael McGaha 9780874809305
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $27.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874809305Author Michael McGahaFormat HardbackPage Count 213Imprint
The Rhetoric of Biography: Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies by L. Marlow 9780674060661
RRP: $32.21Booksplease Price: $28.42In 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: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.76Arabs 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...
Giving Voice to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature by Barbara McKean Parmenter
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.40"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: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69Authors 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: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.76The 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: $53.18Booksplease Price: $46.66The 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: $17.08Booksplease Price: $14.06Distinguished 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: $13.28Booksplease Price: $10.53Poetry 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: $22.78Booksplease Price: $18.34Winner 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...
Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives by Angelika Neuwirth
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.03Arabic 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...
Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights by Paulo Lemos Horta
RRP: $36.01Booksplease Price: $31.94Although 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: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69The 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
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602668Author Farzaneh MilaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint
Art & War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction by Lavie Tidhar 9781910924044
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88Shimon 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...
Abundance from the Desert: Classical Arabic Poetry by Raymond Farrin
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $31.29Abundance 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...
INEXTRICABLY BONDED: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-visioning Culture by 9780299189648
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.76In the tragic reality of continuing conflict between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs, this book affirms the insoluble ties between the two communities. Rachel Feldhay Brenner examines how the...![Ferdowsi's "Shahnama": Millennial Perspectives by Olga M. Davidson 9780674726802](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9346110/10380220/9780674726802__26562.1758089158.jpg?c=1 "Ferdowsi's "Shahnama": Millennial Perspectives by Olga M. Davidson 9780674726802")
Ferdowsi's "Shahnama": Millennial Perspectives by Olga M. Davidson 9780674726802
RRP: $28.41Booksplease Price: $25.48Ferdowsi's Shahnama: Millennial Perspectives celebrates the ongoing reception, over the last thousand years, of a masterpiece of classical Persian poetry. The epic of the Shahnama or Book of Kings...
The Oriental Caravan: Revelation of the Soul and Mind of Asia by Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah 9781850770152
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850770152Author Sirdar Ikbal Ali ShahFormat HardbackPage Count 331I
Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader's Guide by Steven Salaita 9780815632535
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.40Within the spectrum of American literary traditions, Arab American literature is relatively new. Writing produced by Americans of Arab origin is mainly a product of the twentieth century and only...