Middle Eastern

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913642358Author Yousif M QasmiyehFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

When she arrived in Palestine in 1935 at the age of twenty-four, Leah Goldberg was already known as a significant emerging poet in contemporary Hebrew literature. Today, mention of her name is apt to evoke a nostalgic sigh among Israelis who have grown...

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of...

A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in...

Hayim Nahman Bialik is considered by many to be one of the greatest Hebrew poets of modern times. This volume presents translations of a selection of his work.Book InformationISBN 9780815606055Author Atar HadariFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781399538Author RumiFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560009Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621705Author Faridu'd-Din AttarFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 940g

A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artistAn all-new illustrated poetry collection from the bestselling author of yesterday i was the moon, New Names for Lost Things combines Noor Unnahar's powerful...

Medieval Andalucia is famous as a land of regrets, the place of the Moorish King's last sigh, where travelers sense the desecration of the great mosque of Cordoba and feel the haunted emptiness of the Alhambra's gilded, plastered domes. This collection...

Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men. She is a master of the...

A collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.Book InformationISBN 9780815607106Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136897Author Zeina Hashem BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab...

As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualising his...

A breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world's most loved mystical teachers and bestselling poets. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with paintings and Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal gift. ...

"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." -LitHub For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past--memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936347509Author W. M. ThackstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 366g

Written over a 50-year period, this work reflects the experiences that have shaped recent Iranian history: revolution and war.Book InformationISBN 9780815605546Author Simin BehbahaniFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739190200Author Najiba MracadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Najiba KeanePublisher Najiba KeaneWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471653Author Mevlana Jalaluddin RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty...

The Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry - indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieval period Sufi poetry flourished, embracing Persian forms such as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910346211Author Mel KenneFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Red Hand BooksPublisher Red Hand Books

Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical' poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the...

A pocket-sized collection of all the favourite verses that have inspired desert travellers. This collection of poems delights in constructing a sensual Orient of the imagination, from the seven golden odes of Pre-Islamic Arabia to the fevered visions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726105Author Abeer AmeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society and...

Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan just before her family fled to Iran. She returned home at the age of five, but when she was 14 the Kurds were attacked with chemical weapons, and her family were forced back into exile. Her poems chart lives of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555673Author Hala AlyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981955711Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636209098Author G S Davie M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Persian Learning CenterPublisher Persian Learning CenterWeight(grams)...

"Child: New and Selected Poems" 1991-2011 combines a generous collation of poems from Mimi Khalvati's five Carcanet volumes with previously uncollected sequences. She orders her work autobiographically, telling the stories of her life in four sections:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420943948Author Farid Ud AttarFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894832Author Mona KareemFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre

Volume 1 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus – reissued with a new foreword by Alan Williams – provides the Persian edition of books I and II of the Mathnawí. The Mathnawí of Jalálu’ddín Rúmí is his...

Volume 3 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus – reissued with a new foreword by Alan Williams – provides the Persian edition of books III and IV of the Mathnawí. The Mathnawí of Jalálu’ddín Rúmí is his...

Volume 6 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus – reissued with a new foreword by Alan Williams. This volume provides the English translation of books V and VI of the Mathnawí. The Mathnawí of Jalálu’ddín...

Volume 2 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus – reissued with a new foreword by Alan Williams – provides the English translation of books I and II of the Mathnawí. The Mathnawí of Jalálu’ddín Rúmí is his...