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Sufism: The Essentials by Mark J. Sedgwick 9789774248238
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.58A succinct presentation of the essentials of Sufism and shows how Sufis live and worship, and whyFor more than a millennium, Sufism has been the core of the spiritual experience of countless Muslims... -
Modern Standard Arabic Grammar, Revised and Updated: A Comprehensive Reference and Guide Mohammad T. Alhawary 9781649034038
Booksplease Price: $73.58This comprehensive guide to Arabic grammar is an essential resource for the first five years of language learning and beyond, now in a revised editionThorough and carefully organized, this book... -
In Their Father's Country by Anne-Marie Drosso 9781846590597
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94Claire and Gabrielle Sahli are sisters growing up in 1920s Cairo. Of Levantine descent, they occupy a precarious position in Egypt's increasingly nationalist world. With the early death of their... -
Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top - And How to Manage Them by David L. Dotlich
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $34.86If any of the following behaviors sound like you or someone you work with, beware! In Why CEOs Fail, David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo describe the most common characteristics of derailed top... -
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In Their Father's Country by Anne-Marie Drosso 9781846590597 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.27Claire and Gabrielle Sahli are sisters growing up in 1920s Cairo. Of Levantine descent, they occupy a precarious position in Egypt's increasingly nationalist world. With the early death of their... -
Grand Hotels of Egypt: In the Golden Age of Travel by Andrew Humphreys 9789774167195
Booksplease Price: $48.41From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the... -
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Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick 9781509848690 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $5.27Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers,... -
Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches by Yazan Al-Saadi 9781637790786
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.08Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination.Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is... -
Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no... -
A Nose and Three Eyes: A Novel by Ihsan Abdel Kouddous 9781649033604
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $83.41A NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOK OF 2024 (BRITTLE PAPER) Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family breakdown smashed through taboos when first... -
A Levant Journal George Seferis 9780819502636
Booksplease Price: $30.45An eloquent glimpse of the humanity behind the headlines by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers._x000D_ />_x000D_ />Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, poet, essayist,... -
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Llama United by Scott Allen 9781509840908 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $3.68It's time to get behind the football team with an impossible dream!What happens when eleven llamas unknowingly eat the ashes of one of the greatest footballers of all time? They become brilliant at... -
The Day the Pagers Exploded: A Personal Account of the 2024 Israeli War on Lebanon by Hicham Cheikh Hassan 9781649035523
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $35.41An intimate account of the 2024 Lebanon war, written by a father, husband, and doctor, offering a profound sense of the existential uncertainty together with the ordinary day-to-day dimensions of... -
The Day the Pagers Exploded: A Personal Account of the 2024 Israeli War on Lebanon by Hicham Cheikh Hassan 9781649035530
Booksplease Price: $73.58An intimate account of the 2024 Lebanon war, written by a father, husband, and doctor, offering a profound sense of the existential uncertainty together with the ordinary day-to-day dimensions of... -
The Lamp of Umm Hashim: And Other Stories Yahya Hakki 9789774249709
Booksplease Price: $22.07The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent culturesTogether with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the... -
The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt by Alexander Kitroeff 9789774168581
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.98From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the largest, most economically powerful, and geographically and socially diverse of all European communities in Egypt... -
Egyptian Cooking: And Other Middle Eastern Recipes Samia Abdennour 9789774167119
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.22Since its original publication in 1984, Samia Abdennour's Egyptian Cooking has become a true classic-a must-have cookbook for anyone who wants to eat as the Egyptians do. From hearty staples like... -
We're Sailing Down the Nile by Laurie Krebs 9781846861949
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94Set sail along the mighty Nile River to experience the wonders of Egypt. The lilting, rhyming story text is followed by eleven pages full of educational information about ancient Egypt, gods and... -
The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring by Gregory J. Wallance 9781612349435
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $58.80Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman-the daughter of Romanian-born... -
Collins Arabic Visual Dictionary by Collins Dictionaries
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.31The home of trusted full-colour visual dictionaries for everyday use. A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Arabic. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel... -
The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor by Rana Haddad 9789774168611
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.54Aspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, and very curly hair are a recipe for disaster in 1980s Syria. And at the tender age of thirteen, she is... -
London Calling: Volume 6 James Ponti 9781665932516
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24In this sixth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies stages a rescue in Rome in another international adventure perfect for... -
Childhood in Ancient Egypt by Amandine Marshall
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $104.94A groundbreaking account of how the ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, from the Predynastic period to the end of the New KingdomThere could be no society, no family, and no social... -
Religion and the Invisible World: Sanctity and Spiritual Transformation in Egypt from Pharaonic Times to the Present el-Sayed el-Aswad 9781649033703
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $132.47A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different... -
The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer Belal Fadl 9781788711142
RRP: $29.40Booksplease Price: $24.36When a seventeen-year-old flees his violent father and heads to Cairo to chase his dream of breaking into the arts, he ends up in a crumbling flat with a mercurial landlady and her volatile son. Set... -
Being Abbas el Abd: A Modern Egyptian Novel by Ahmed Alaidy 9781649035684
Booksplease Price: $83.41"The millennial generation's most celebrated literary achievement."-Al-Ahram Weekly"The first glimmer of hope for a true fictional renaissance-an instantly rewarding read embraced by an unprecedented... -
Siwa: Jewelry, Costume, and Life in an Egyptian Oasis by Margaret Mary Vale 9789774166815
RRP: $47.25Booksplease Price: $42.02Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside... -
An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome by Lee Young 9789774169922
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.58An Artist in Abydos is the first book to recognize Myrtle Broome's great contribution to the work done during this golden age of excavation in Upper Egypt. In this remarkable account, Lee Young tells... -
Thai Visual Dictionary: A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in Thai (Collins Visual Dictionary) by Collins Dictionaries
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.31A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Thai. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Thailand and Thai language and culture. ... -
Vietnamese Visual Dictionary: A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in Vietnamese (Collins Visual Dictionary) by Collins Dictionaries
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.31A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Vietnamese. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Vietnam and Vietnamese language and... -
Egyptian Lullaby by Zeena M. Pliska
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $28.04Every night, my Ametti Fatma sings the sounds of Egypt to me as I fall asleep. This is the Nile, that flows through the city. Swish, swoosh, swish. This is the boat, that glides on the Nile, ... -
Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era: Envisioning a National Identity Samar Abdel-Rahman 9781649034496
RRP: $136.48Booksplease Price: $132.45An exploration of male stardom in Egyptian cinema produced during the rule of Gamal Abdel NasserFollowing the Free Officers' coup of July 1952, the new regime under Gamal Abdel Nasser sought to... -
Children of Wolves by Lawrence Osborne 9781784746261
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $27.87'An unsettling, hypnotic meditation on violence and privilege' CHARLES CUMMING 'Osborne is the master of the well-made, high-class thriller' THE TIMES * A CrimeReads and i News Best Thriller Summer... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.86A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity by Otto F. A. Meinardus 9789774167454
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.81Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought-according to tradition-by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since,... -
To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45 by Hermione Ranfurly, Countess of Ranfurly 9781447259404
Booksplease Price: $41.16Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary for seventy five years, and To War with Whitaker guides us through the most adventurous, most defiant, and most valiant of those years. Hermione and Dan... -
Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean Terence Walz 9781649034991
Booksplease Price: $63.78"A must read for any social historian of the region."-The American Historical ReviewThe individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperbackIn the nineteenth... -
Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela 9780802145758
Booksplease Price: $28.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145758Author Leila AboulelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Essential Yusuf Idris by Yusuf Idris
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.01The only fiction collection available in English translation by the Arab world's greatest short-story writer of the twentieth centuryYusuf Idris (1927-91), who belonged to the same generation of... -
The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World: Between History and Autonomy by Geneive Abdo 9781649035646
Booksplease Price: $103.03How the Arab Sh'ia are claiming their autonomy from both Sunni marginalization and Iranian influence "A significant contribution to Shi'a studies and contemporary Islamic studies."-Hassan Abbas,...