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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mansoura ez eldin”
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  • Maryam's Maze

    A Modern Arabic Novel

    by Mansoura Ez-Eldin ...
    Translated by Paul Starkey ...
    Maryam's Maze is an enigmatic novel by one of the most promising authors of a vibrant new generation of Egyptian writers. Set in the house of Yusuf el Tagi, Maryam's Maze relates the story of a woman struggling to find her way through the confusion of the world around her. Using the literary device of the 'double,' Maryam's Maze narrates a story that on one level touches on universal human ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Physician on the Nile

    A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years

    by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī ...
    Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Series series Library of Arabic Literature
    Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century EgyptA Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nāṣir, the first part of the book offers detailed ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • House of Stone

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  • Babylon

    Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

    by Paul Kriwaczek ...
    Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ... Read more

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  • Journey from the Land of No

    A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

    by Roya Hakakian ...
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    A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
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    A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran

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  • The Nabataeans, Builders of Petra

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    A fascinating look at the ancient Nabataean Kingdom! During the time of the Greek and Roman Empires, this small Arabian empire built spectacular cities in the Arabian Desert. Their ships and camel caravans traveled to far off exotic places to bring luxury goods to European markets. Since they held a monopoly on almost all eastern goods, they slowly raised their prices, until they almost brought ... Read more

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  • One Thousand Roads to Mecca

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