Middle Eastern

Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot...

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...

Well-known in the Arab world as a poet, essayist and translator Abdulkareem Kasid, born in Basra in 1946, escaped from Iraq in 1978 and went to live in Aden. He lived and worked in Damascus for ten years before settling in London with his wife and two...

Dahlia Ravikovitch, who died in 2005, was one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Hebrew literature and the Israeli peace movement. In these poems about fathers and daughters, men and women, kings and their subjects, she articulates the...

This new volume of Rumi's works, the first-ever English translation of his Arabic poems, will be exciting for the newcomer to Rumi's verses as well as to readers already familiar with his mystical philosophy. The poems take the reader on a journey of...

The Oasis of Now is the first U.S. book publication of the works of Sohrab Sepehri (1928 1980), one of the major Iranian poets of the twentieth century. Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism, and Western traditions, Sepehri mingled Western concepts with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726020Author Adnan Al-SayeghFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536589Author Yehuda Amichai; Edited by Robert AlterFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625164Author Ahmad ShamluFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949773057Author Amna DhananiFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Amna DhananiPublisher Amna DhananiWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

Remi Kanazi's poetry presents an unflinching look at the lives of Palestinians under occupation and as refugees scattered across the globe. In Kanazi's second collection, he captures the stubborn refusal of the Palestinian people refuse to allow...

This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.The latest anthology in Arc's 'New Voices from Europe and Beyond' series features the work of six of Armenia's poets - three men, Anatoli Hovhannisyan, Khachik Manoukyan and Hrachya...

A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt's premier poet. Iman Mersal is Egypt's-indeed, the Arab world's-great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and...

Poetic Justice is the first anthology of contemporary Moroccan poetry in English. The work is primarily composed of poets who began writing after Moroccan independence in 1956 and includes work written in Moroccan Arabic (darija), classical Arabic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588140838Author Kuros AmouzgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 292g

In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (which he liberally excerpts and remolds), the modernism of William Carlos Williams, and the haunting urban imagery of Baudelaire, Cavafy, and Lorca. Three long poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357287136Author Maulana Jalalu-'d-Din Muhammad RumiFormat HardbackPage Count 574Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941810019Author Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Suluk Press, Omega PublicationsPublisher Suluk Press, Omega...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946852113Author Adam Malik SiddiqFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Lineage Publishing, Inc.Publisher Lineage Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams)...

With a foreword by National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann Dictionary of Midnight collects almost 50 years of poetry by Abdulla Pashew, the most influential Kurdish poet alive today. Pashew's poems chart a personal cartography of exile,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863723780Author Professor Clive HolesPage Count 250Imprint Ithaca PressPublisher Garnet PublishingWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060750633Author Coleman BarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 172g

The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events...

"On the bridges to those slippery worlds, we are wrapped in gold foil, disease free. Who is saving whom? The question's not stated, only implied." In 2013, the Italian government implemented Mare Nostrum, an operation intended to limit immigration from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094105Author Jalalu'ddin RumiFormat HardbackPage Count 529Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784350802Author Chaim Nachman BialikFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Jiahu BooksPublisher Jiahu BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556435Author Desmond O'GradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556437120Author Niloufar TalebiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905002580Author Theo DorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Southword EditionsPublisher Southword EditionsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This collection covers the broad vision of mankind's history with a story of an individual journey, in the course of which the poet explores the cosmic and the microcosm, the immensities of Time and Space, of becoming and Being. The poems came during a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528715683Author Gertrude BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Ragged Hand - Read & Co.Publisher Ragged Hand - Read & Co.Weight(grams) 240g

This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nazik Al-Mala'ika's Arabic poetry. One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nazik Al-Mala'ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the...

Filled with vivid, often dreamlike pictures from the natural world, the poems of Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky, known to her Hebrew readers simply as Zelda, are unlike anything else in Hebrew literature. Zelda was the daughter and granddaughter of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566872Author Kamal BoullataFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers'...

Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz's poetry and penetrate the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525537786Author Melody MoezziFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The most popular story in all of India and a classic of world literature is summarised in 728 verses in the great epic Mahabharata. Intended for independent study or classroom use for students of various levels who have had a basic introduction to...

An illustrated collection of poetry about one woman's resilience in the face of trauma and mental illness. After a suicide attempt derailed the seemingly perfect life of Bay-area writer and entrepreneur Jessica Semaan, she checked herself into a...

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...