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Stealth by Sonallah Ibrahim 9780811223058
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.53Set 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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ice Sonallah Ibrahim 9780857426505
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.34The 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: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.10A 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... -
1970 – The Last Days by Sonallah Ibrahim 9781803092485
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.55A 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... -
The Committee: A Novel Sonallah Ibrahim 9780815612179
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Star of August Sonallah Ibrahim 9781803096421
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Committee: A Novel by Sonallah Ibrahim 9780815607267
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.87Writing in an intriguingly symbolic and minimalist style, author Sonallah Ibrahim has been called the Egyptian Kafka. And no wonder. This wry take on Kafka's The Trial revolves around its narrator's... -
Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen by Paul Starkey
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87This volume is designed as an introduction to the contemporary Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim, one of the most important Arabic novelists of the modern era, with an unrivalled reputation for... -
That Smell and Notes from Prison by Sonallah Ibrahim 9780811220361
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen by Paul Starkey 9781474426442
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $30.55This 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41How 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: $122.55Booksplease Price: $96.49How 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: $148.35Booksplease Price: $136.28In 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: $148.35Booksplease Price: $136.28Examines 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... -
Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return by Wessam Elmeligi 9781793600974
Booksplease Price: $111.49Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return offers a new perspective of migration studies that views the concept of migration in Arabic as inherently embracing the notion... -
Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najiti Sidqi Najati Sidqi 9781477333228
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23The 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: $122.55Booksplease Price: $89.37Examines 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... -
Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s David DiMeo 9789774167614
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.69Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the... -
Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East Shir Alon 9780231215954
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $118.19What 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: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35What 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... -
Confessions of a Knight Errant: Drifters, Thieves, and Ali Baba's Treasure by Gretchen McCullough
Booksplease Price: $17.49Confessions of a Knight Errant is a comedic, picaresque novel in the tradition of Don Quixote with a flamboyant cast of characters. Dr. Gary Watson is the picaro, a radical environmentalist and... -
The Many Lives of Ibrahim Nagui: A Journey with my Grandfather Samia Mehrez 9781649033802
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $43.85WINNER OF THE SAWIRIS CULTURAL AWARD A multigenerational literary memoir that sheds new light on one of the Arab world's most renowned Romantic poets, through the eyes of his granddaughterIbrahim... -
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut by Robyn Creswell 9780691182186
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.10How 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: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.31How 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... -
Love, Death, and Exile: Poems Translated from Arabic by Bassam K. Frangieh 9781589010048
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $29.54Called "a major innovator in his art form" by "The New York Times", Baghdad-born poet Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati broke with over fifteen centuries of Arabic poetic tradition to write in free verse and... -
No Windmills in Basra by Diaa Jubaili
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $12.85A bold, imaginative collection of short stories set in Southern Iraq from prolific, award-winning novelist Diaa Jubaili. Influenced in turn by the long tradition of Arabic folktales and the...