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  • City of Beginnings

    Poetic Modernism in Beirut

    by Robyn Creswell ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    How 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 the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The FSG Poetry Anthology

    Edited by Jonathan Galassi, Robyn Creswell ...
    To honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and futurePoetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Songs of Mihyar the Damascene

    by Adonis ...
    Translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Ivan Eubanks ...
    A brilliant new translation of the landmark poetry collection by “the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity” (Edward Said)Written in the early 1960s, Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had dominated Arabic poetry until the 1950s. Drawing ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Threshold

    Poems

    by Iman Mersal ...
    Translated by Robyn Creswell ...
    A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt's premier poet.Iman Mersal is Egypt's—indeed, the Arab world's—great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo's legendary literary bohème, a home for "Lovers of cheap weed and awkward confessions / Anti ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Clash of Images

    by Abdelfattah Kilito ...
    Translated by Robyn Creswell ...
    The Clash of Images is a sweet, Borgesian mix of bildungsroman memoir, family history, short-story collection, fable, and literary criticism.Written in a graceful and charming style, Kilito’s story takes place in an unnamed coastal city of memories where a child experiences first-hand the cultural clash of text and image in a changing, modern society. It is a time when the old Arabic world of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tongue of Adam

    by Abdelfattah Kilito ...
    Translated by Robyn Creswell ...
    A playful and erudite look at the origins of languageIn the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • That Smell and Notes from Prison

    by Sonallah Ibrahim ...
    Translated by Robyn Creswell ...
    That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential Arabic novels. Composed in the wake of a five-year prison sentence, the semi-autobiographical story follows a recently released political prisoner as he wanders through Cairo, adrift in his native city.That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential novels written in Arabic ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Tongue of Adam

    by Abdelfattah Kilito ...
    Translated by Robyn Creswell ...
    In the beginning, there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Quarter

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by Roger Allen ...
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    Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This ... Read more

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  • Divine Justice or The Problem of Evil

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    by meisam mahfouzi, WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR ISLAMIC SERVICES ...
    Illness, flood, famine and finally diverse hardships in the subject of divine justice and is considered a main problem propounded in philosophical field and has caused diverse religions and lengthy discussions. We can clearly and rationally encounter this problem by keeping away from prolongation and detail and by using summarization and abridgement. This book wan compiled for this sort of ... Read more

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  • She Walks in Beauty

    A Woman's Journey Through Poems

    by Caroline Kennedy ...
    In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Stray Dogs

    And Other Stories

    by Rawi Hage ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.**In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned ... Read more

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