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Baghdad Central by Elliott Colla
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Baghdad, November 2003. The US occupation is not yet a disaster but the CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and decimated the police in its policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Inspector... -
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity by Elliott Colla
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.85Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting... -
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 42: Literature Confronting Mortality by Walid El Hamamsy
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.56A wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality for human creativityThis issue of Alif explores the... -
Poor: A Nubian Novel Idris Ali 9789774166273
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"This is your last day. Be strong. Don't hesitate. Cut and run. An exit with no return." Idris Ali's confessional novel opens with these words, spoken on an unbearably hot August afternoon in... -
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo by Mara Naaman 9780230108653
Booksplease Price: £46.74An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian... -
Gold Dust: A Novel by Ibrahim Al-Koni
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Libyan Sahara. Between bloody wars against the... -
Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt by Jessica Winegar
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12The Egyptian art world is the oldest and largest in the Arab Middle East. Its artists must reckon with the histories of ancient Egypt, European modernism, anti-colonial nationalism, and state... -
The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 by Joel Beinin 9780804753647
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20After the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a... -
The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 by Joel Beinin 9780804753654
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48After the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a... -
The Lady from Tel Aviv by Raba'I Al-Madhoun 9781846590917
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40WINNER OF THE ENGLISH PEN AWARD Walid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to embracing his mother and reconnecting with the people and place... -
Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World by Maha Nassar 9781503603165
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to... -
Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World by Maha Nassar
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to... -
Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture by Rebecca L. Stein 9780822335047 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £9.58This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad... -
The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present by Bashir Abu-Manneh 9781316501863
Booksplease Price: £35.47What happens to the Palestinian novel after the national dispossession of the nakba, and how do Palestinian novelists respond to this massive crisis? This is the first study in English to chart the... -
The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present by Bashir Abu-Manneh
Booksplease Price: £99.43What happens to the Palestinian novel after the national dispossession of the nakba, and how do Palestinian novelists respond to this massive crisis? This is the first study in English to chart the... -
Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture by Rebecca L. Stein 9780822335160
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad... -
The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley by Mohamed Shoair
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.99An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz's novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight... -
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition by Shihab Al-Din Al-Nuwayri
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar...