Middle Eastern

A rich collection of poems inspired by the Persian lyric tradition.In The Khayyam Suite, acclaimed poet Charles Martin explores both the profound and the personal in verse that celebrates the spectrum of human experience. At the heart of this collection...

Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abu Nuwas was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid...

"This is a living and essential book." -sam sax, author of Bury It and MadnessA meditation on historical rupture and political imagination, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century, navigating the tides of...

The heroic deeds and words of a warrior poet of northern Arabia An epic hero and a poet, the semi-legendary Shayi' al-Amsah was a prominent ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation that stretches across the Great Nafud desert in the northern Arabian...