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The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory "Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon's most complex work to date." -Malcolm... -
The Corpse Washer Sinan Antoon 9780300205640
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor-to celebrate life rather... -
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. ... -
Postcards from the Underworld – Poems by Sinan Antoon 9781803092508
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96A chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real... -
Arrested Movement in the Middle East: Mobility and Political Dissent in Arab and Palestinian Culture Drew Paul 9780755656721
Booksplease Price: $110.49How has cultural production from the Middle East responded to two simultaneous and contradictory trends: growing ease of global mobility brought about by advances in transportation and communication... -
Nostalgia, My Enemy: Poems by Saadi Youssef 9781555976293
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $11.62Nostalgia, My Enemy collects some of the best of Saadi Youssef's most recent poems from the last decade, since the on-going American-led war in his home country of Iraq. In direct, penetrating... -
Knife Sharpener: Selected Poems by Sargon Boulus 9780954966676
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Knife 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... -
Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the... -
The Sleep Thief Ibtisam Azem 9781916751538
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96'Sleep thief is what the interrogator called me. I'll never forget that. I would steal a few seconds of sleep so I could remain steadfast before them. The name stuck; I even dreamt about it, the same... -
The Book of Disappearance: A Novel by Ibtisam Azem 9780815611110
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.11What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem's powerfully imaginative novel. Set... -
Baghdad Central by Elliott Colla
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Baghdad, 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... -
The Book of Disappearance Ibtisam Azem 9781916751026
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96Alaa is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa's neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical... -
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish 9780520273030
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.02Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics... -
Warda: A Novel by Sonallah Ibrahim 9780300228656
Booksplease Price: $21.30Sonallah Ibrahim's 2000 masterpiece offers readers a view of twentieth-century world events through the diary pages of his titular character 1950s Cairo: the intersection of conflicting dreams and... -
Outside the Prison Walls: Abdalrahman Munif on Politics and Literature Abdelrahman Munif 9780745351872
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.66Abdalrahman Munif was a towering, transformative figure in Arabic literature. The author of more than 25 books, he was a public intellectual and an icon of principled opposition to authoritarian... -
The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism by Hamid Dabashi 9781780322230
Booksplease Price: $29.00This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed... -
Don't Panic, I'm Islamic: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door by Lynn Gaspard 9780863569999
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A Sunday Times Best Humour Book of the Year 2017 How can you tell if your neighbour is speaking Muslim? Is a mosque a kind of hedgehog? Can I get fries with that burka? You can't trust the media any...