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Stealth by Sonallah Ibrahim 9780811223058
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Set in the turbulent years before the 1952 revolution that would overthrow King Farouk and bring Gamal Abdel Nasser to power, Stealth - by Sonallah Ibrahim, one of Egypt's most respected and... -
Stealth by Sonallah Ibrahim 9781906300098
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ice Sonallah Ibrahim 9780857426505
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.22The year is 1973. An Egyptian historian, Dr. Shukri, pursues a year of non-degree graduate studies in Moscow, the presumed heart of the socialist utopia. Through his eyes, the reader receives a... -
The Turban and the Hat by Sonallah Ibrahim 9780857429803
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.36A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of a young Egyptian. The Napoleonic-era French invasion and occupation of Egypt are often seen as the... -
The Committee: A Novel Sonallah Ibrahim 9780815612179
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Warda: A Novel by Sonallah Ibrahim 9780300228656
Booksplease Price: £16.51Sonallah 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... -
1970 – The Last Days by Sonallah Ibrahim 9781803092485
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.45A riveting novel that is both an indictment and an elegy, a second-person memoir of Nasser’s final months in the voice of his former prisoner. In 1959, at the age of twenty-two, Egyptian novelist... -
Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen by Paul Starkey 9781474426442
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in... -
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age by Tarek El-Ariss
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and... -
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age by Tarek El-Ariss 9780691181929
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.51How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and... -
Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles by Tahia Abdel Nasser 9781474420228
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.64In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti,... -
Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature by Benjamin Koerber
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.64Examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction over the last centuryConspiracy theory in the Arab World has come to be associated with the rhetoric of Islamist extremists and... -
Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najiti Sidqi Najati Sidqi 9781477333228
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The secret life of a Palestinian Communist activist during the rise of World War II. In the public eye, Najati Sidqi was known as a journalist and writer, a translator of Russian classics, and an... -
Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges by Tahia Abdel Nasser
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Examines the circulation of literature, routes of comparison and the legacies of transcontinental ties Traces cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world in the 20th and 21st... -
Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East Shir Alon 9780231215954
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46What does it mean to write a literature of the present? In the early twentieth century, Arabic and Hebrew writers faced a parallel predicament. Modern literature aspired to reflect the contemporary... -
Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East Shir Alon 9780231215947
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21What does it mean to write a literature of the present? In the early twentieth century, Arabic and Hebrew writers faced a parallel predicament. Modern literature aspired to reflect the contemporary... -
The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed 9781913043452
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50During the modernisation of Muscat, people's spirits seemed to harden and dry up, and one day the female jinn just disappeared. Where did they go to? Have they all died, are they in hiding after... -
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut by Robyn Creswell 9780691182186
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during... -
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut Robyn Creswell 9780691264769
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.30How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during... -
Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History by Eileen Kane 9780197605769
Booksplease Price: £119.20The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary...