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The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems by Mohammed Sawaie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense... -
The Madness of Despair Ghalya F T Al Said 9781913043216
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.35The Madness of Despair tells the story of Maliha, who is living in London with her husband Nafie after an arranged marriage in their distant Arab homeland. The couple become good friends with Doctor... -
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa 9781913043261
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61This is young Palestinian author Shada Mustafa's debut novel - a free-flowing narrative that interrogates, in short, direct sentences, the memories of growing up, falling in love, that keep forcing... -
Heavenly Life: Selected Poems by Ramsey Nasr 9780954966690
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27Shortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English, run by the Poetry Society.Foreword by Ruth Padel and introduced by Victor Schiferli."With this... -
An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
Booksplease Price: £15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957442481Author Samuel ShimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Banipal BooksPublisher Banipal... -
A Boat to Lesbos: and other poems Nouri Al-Jarrah 9780995636941
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A Boat to Lesbos is a powerful and compelling epic poem, written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island... -
The Stone Serpent: Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah 9781913043292
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913043292Author Nouri Al-JarrahFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Banipal BooksPublisher... -
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures Fadhil al-Azzawi 9781913043100
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61This open work was written in defiance of the "sanctity of genre" and to raise the question of freedom of expression in writing. First published in Arabic in 1969 to great acclaim, it has been... -
A Journey in Iraqi Fiction by Abdullah Sakhi 9780995636958
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis have created a revolution in literature, writing nearly 600 novels. Banipal's first issue of 2018 focuses on this unexpected... -
Shepherd of Solitude: Selected Poems 1979-2004 by Amjad Nasser 9780954966683
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.34?Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa,... -
The Myrtle Tree Jad El Hage 9780954966645
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Young Adam Awad, his wife and daughter live in the remote village of his family, in the Lebanese countryside where his uncle maintains there are no "vendettas and bloody feuds like in the North, no... -
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi 9781913043155
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Ahmed Morsi is a renowned painter as well as a prolific art critic, journalist, translator, and, as this book reveals to a new audience, a consummate poet, with his debut collection published at the... -
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913043223Author Fadhil al-AzzawiFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Banipal BooksPublisher... -
Knife Sharpener: Selected Poems by Sargon Boulus 9780954966676
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Knife Sharpener - Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus, in a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an... -
A Retired Gentleman: And Other Stories by Issa J. Boullata 9780954966669
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27After a lifetime working as a professor of Arabic literature and a translator of contemporary Arab authors into English, the author now regales his readers with a rich medley of tales that will... -
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Taleb Alrefai turns a spotlight on Kuwait's pearl-fishing history in this enthralling fictional re-telling of that fateful day, 19 February 1979, when the country's famous dhow shipmaster Captain... -
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61In Goat Mountain, Habib Selmi's first novel, published in Arabic in 1988, a young man's journey begins in a dilapidated old bus that takes four hours to reach Al-'Ala, from where he takes a long ride... -
Mordechai's Moustache and His Wife's Cats: and Other Stories by Mahmoud Shukair 9780954966638
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76Mahmoud Shukair's first major publication in English translation enthralls, surprises and shocks as one of the world's most original of storytellers excels in exposing the surreal moments in the... -
The Madness of Despair by Ghalya F T Al Said 9781913043124
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The Madness of Despair tells the story of Maliha, who is living in London with her husband Nafie after an arranged marriage in their distant Arab homeland. The couple become good friends with Doctor... -
Birds of Nabaa: A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah 9781913043438
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Birds of Nabaa is a tale of physical and spiritual journeys, beginning in Nabaa, a remote Mauritanian village, whose herds lead the community according to their own inscrutable instincts, to life in... -
Sarajevo Firewood by Said Khatibi 9781913043230
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Sarajevo Firewood, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) award in 2020, explores the legacy of the recent histories of two countries - Algeria and... -
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai 9781913043360
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Impoverished Egyptian teacher Helmy is desperate to find a better life for himself, his wife and little boy, seeing no future at home in Cairo. He dreams of working in oil-rich Kuwait and its boom in... -
The Secrets of Folder 42 by Abdelmajid Sebbata 9781913043414
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The Secrets of Folder 42 opens with the author forgetting his laptop and notebook in a taxi. What a chance!! The reader is introduced to the protagonists via two storylines playing out across... -
Arab Literary Awards by Alaa Khaled 9780995636910
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995636910Author Alaa KhaledFormat PaperbackImprint Banipal PublishingPublisher Banipal Books -
A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh by Hanan al-Shaykh 9781913043001
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913043001Author Hanan al-ShaykhFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Banipal PublishingPublisher... -
Alaa al-Deeb, A writer apart by Alaa Al-Deeb 9780995636934
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995636934Author Alaa Al-DeebFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Banipal PublishingPublisher... -
From the River to the Sea by Samer Abu Hawwash 9781913043506
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913043506Author Samer Abu HawwashFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Banipal PublishingPublisher... -
Echoes by Ibtisam Azem 9780957442467
RRP: £7.00Booksplease Price: £5.61Echoes presents texts where history, memory and real life reverberate against each other, by authors from Palestine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya. Plus feature on Iraqi... -
Elias Khoury, The Novelist by Samuel Shimon
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Main Feature: Lebanese international author Elias Khoury - excerpts from both his latest and his first novel, articles on his corpus of novels and reviews. Plus: Adieu to poet Amjad Nasser in Fakhri... -
The 100 Best Arabic Novels by Balkis Sharara 9780995636972
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62This issue presents a new list of Arabic novels, chosen by critics, authors, academics and translators, in response to the greatly increased popularity of novels in the Arab world. Plus features on... -
Banipal 56 Generation '56 Samuel Shimon 9780957442498
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.95Generation '56 features nine influential Arab voices, all born in 1956, all of whom grew up to become major beacons of modernity, intellectual freedom and creativity in the Arab world and who... -
A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema Samuel Shimon 9780995636965
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.82A collaboration with London's SAFAR film festival in September featuring book and film pairs, translations, presentations, interview with director Daoud Abdel Sayed of the famous Egyptian film Kit... -
Travels by Farouk Yousif
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62"Travels" features five Arab travel writers: Iraqi Farouk Yousif in New York; Tunisian Hassouna Mosbahi in Andalucia; Algerian Said Khatibi in Sarajevo; Moroccan-Dutch Abdelkader Benali in Tangiers... -
The Longlist by Yassin Adnan 9780995636927
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.95Chapters from eight novels on IPAF longlists; Sudanese novelist Amir Tag Elsir writes Literary Influences; chapters from Goat Mountain, 30-year-old debut novel of Habib Selmi; "Arabic Literature in... -
Banipal 73 Fiction Past and Present by Samuel Shimon
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Banipal 73 - Fiction Past and Present is a delicious mix of pioneering, emerging and established authors from around the Arab world. With short stories by three pioneering writers - Emile Habiby,... -
Syria in the Heart by 9780995636903
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.95In the midst of the raging, destructive war that is shattering Syria, Banipal 57 - Syria in the Heart presents powerful new poetry and fiction by twelve Syrian authors - works that reach out to all... -
The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi by Fadhil Al-Azzawi 9781913043018
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Banipal 65 celebrates Iraq novelist and poet Fadhil Al-Azzawi, renowned for his "conceptual leaps, rich references and linguistic surprises". Ariel Dorfman described him as "an Iraqi master poet who... -
Banipal 72 - Iraqi Jewish Writers by Samuel Shimon
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62This unique feature on Iraqi Jewish writers includes short stories, excerpts from novels, and poems - written by 17 authors - all of whom are of Iraqi descent. For several centuries, Iraqi Jews were... -
Banipal 69: 9 New Novels Samuel Shimon 9781913043179
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Banipal 69 opens by saluting in texts by two of its major authors, the city of Beirut that was devastated by the calamitous explosion at its port on 4 August: Beirutshima is a resounding and moving... -
Banipal 71 Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous Samuel Shimon 9781913043254
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Banipal 71 Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous commemorates two great Arab authors and introduces new literature in translation, plus reviews and photo report.We say "Farewell" to the inimitable Iraqi poet...