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The Queer Arab Glossary by Marwan Kabbour 9780863560927
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.39The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kind survey of the linguistic landscape surrounding queerness in the Arab world. It brings together more than 300 words and terms used to refer to queer... -
Sufi Cuisine Nevin Halici 9780863568367
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.21'We are the flowers in the garden of the heavens; we are mezze and wine at God's gathering.' Rumi A dervish's training begins in the kitchen. The preparation and festive consumption of food is... -
A River Dies of Thirst: Diaries by Mahmoud Darwish 9780863560613
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Poetry is... -
Madam Ataturk: The First Lady of Modern Turkey by Ipek Calislar 9780863563355
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is hailed as one of the most charismatic political leaders of the twentieth century, but little is known today about his one and only wife, Latife Hanim. A multilingual... -
The Dispossessed Generation: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa Jörg Gertel 9780863569524
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70The Arab uprisings of the early 2010s raised hopes for the development of more democratic structures and better living conditions for millions in the region. Instead, they were followed by... -
Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran by Malu Halasa 9780863569722
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Jina Mahsa Amini's death at the hands of Iran's Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to the streets, uncovering their hair, burning... -
Zeina by Nawal El Saadawi 9780863563553
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.55Distinguished 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... -
Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh 9780863569869
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement. His mission is to blow up buses transporting Palestinian workers into Israel. Shocked to discover... -
After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine by Antony Loewenstein 9780863569418
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.75After Zionism brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question. In thought-provoking essays, the contributors dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the... -
Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City by Alev Adil 9780863566745
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.57Cyprus' capital Nicosia has been split by a militarised border for decades. In this collection, writers from all sides of the divide reimagine the past, present and future of their city. Here,... -
Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art by Idries Trevathan 9780863561450
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $39.64The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue... -
Winds of Change: The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa by Cyrus Rohani
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70Recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa have radically destabilised the region, which is beset with rising religious and political tensions, sectarian conflict and terrorism. Though... -
Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age by Blaise Ducos 9780863563218
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.60Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age presents the finest pieces from one of the most important private collections in the field, The Leiden Collection, New York, alongside a selection from the... -
A Man With No Title Xavier Le Clerc 9780863569821
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Mohand-Said Ait-Taleb is an enigma. Living in France but ravaged by memories of the war in Algeria, he has withdrawn into his own world, away from his wife and children. When his son Xavier discovers... -
Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art by Rose Issa 9780863566882
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.03Arabicity reflects on four decades of the aesthetic, conceptual, and socio-political concerns of contemporary Arab artists. Beautifully produced, it features over 200 artworks by more than 35 Arab... -
Coping with Uncertainty: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa by Jorg Gertel 9780863569609
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.09Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the social situation has deteriorated across the Middle East and North Africa. Political, economic and personal insecurities have expanded while income from oil... -
Across The Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640 Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9780863569517
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $40.05Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean - 'the green sea,' as it was known to Arabic speakers - underwent vast transformation. An era of commercial and... -
Love in the Kingdom of Oil by Nawal El Saadawi 9780863566264
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.55A woman disappears without trace. Nobody, including the police commissioner investigating the case, can understand how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all, in... -
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela 9780863569043
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.551880s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, they are taken in by Yaseen, a young merchant whose vow to care for them will tether him to Akuany throughout their lives. As... -
Diary of a Country Prosecutor by Tawfik Al-Hakim 9780863569814
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems? Diary of a Country Prosecutor is an... -
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture Matthew Teller 9781849250696
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55This is Gaza - a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught, its heritage... -
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela 9780863569173
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.101880s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, they are taken in by Yaseen, a young merchant whose vow to care for them will tether him to Akuany throughout their lives. As... -
The Sultan's Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook by Ibn Mubarak Shah 9780863561566
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $22.42The Arabic culinary tradition burst onto the scene in the middle of the tenth century, when al-Warraq compiled a culinary treatise titled al-Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes), containing over 600... -
The Quarter by Naguib Mahfouz 9780863563751
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the... -
Egyptian Earth by Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi 9780863569685
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A twelve-year old boy returns to his village from school in Cairo to find the community torn by feud and fear. Working together, the young, old, men and women in the village discover that despite... -
A Mouth Full of Salt Reem Gaafar 9781849250900
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to... -
An Unlasting Home by Mai Al-Nakib
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University. Her relationship with Kuwait is complicated; it is a country she recognises less and less. Yet since her return from the States eleven years... -
Discretion by Faiza Guene 9780863564024
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.33Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. Not that she's sure exactly when to celebrate it, since her Algerian identity papers state a different date of birth to her French ones. These... -
Discretion by Faiza Guene 9780863569760
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. Alternating fragments from Yamina's Algerian past with those of her Paris present, Discretion spans the history of colonial conflict from the... -
The Exile's Cookbook: Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus and North Africa by Ibn Razin Al-Tujibi 9780863569920
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70The Exile's Cookbook brings together 480 recipes, including roasts and stews, breads, condiments, preserves, sweetmeats, and even hand-washing soaps. It offers a fascinating insight into the cuisine... -
The Earthquake by Tahir Wattar 9780863569630
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The Earthquake offers a lucid vision of post-colonial Algeria - a society in chaos, a world turned upside down. Pioneering novelist Tahir Wattar both foretells the dreadful events which would later... -
Notes from a Lost Country Sinan Antoon 9781849251235
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Sami, a retired doctor, lives with his son and grandchildren in Brooklyn. But Sami keeps losing his way. Every day he sinks deeper into dementia and old memories of life in Iraq before the war. ... -
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War by Ian Rutledge 9780863569500
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By... -
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan 9780863564789
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. heart-warming connections and... -
Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline by Malu Halasa 9780863567872
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55In Syria, culture has become the critical line of defence against tyranny. Villagers have joined the cultural frontline alongside urban intellectuals, artists, writers and filmmakers and to create... -
Mohamed Makiya: A Modern Architect Renewing Islamic Tradition by Karen Dabrowska
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03'Makiya was Baghdad and Baghdad was Makiya.' These words sum up the life of one of the Middle East's most famous architects. Mohamed Makiya's career spanned seven decades and included projects in... -
The Sultan's Sex Potions 9781849250757
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.38Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, which goes back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit of prurient pornographers, eroticism and sexuality received considerable... -
Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration Dalia al-Dujaili 9781849251112
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Whoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons. In this lyrical enquiry, Dalia Al-Dujaili considers what it means to belong in your land. She traces the rich... -
Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature by 9780863561757
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55A 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... -
A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba by Atef Alshaer 9780863569906
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97A 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...