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“shahnaz bashir”

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  • Scattered Souls

    by Shahnaz Bashir ...
    It was the 1990s. The army descended upon Kashmir to quell a massive armed rebellion against Indian rule. They entered not just the land, but also the lives of its people, fracturing their idea of home and punctuating their days and nights with curfews.This extraordinary collection brings together the stories of some of those people probing the quandaries of their precarious existence. There is ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Association of Small Bombs

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    by Karan Mahajan ...
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  • Married To A Bedouin

    by Marguerite van Geldermalsen ...
    'A fascinating account of life as Bedouin in the late twentieth century' Mary S. Lovell'This sparkling memoir is a refreshing antidote and a rare window into the legendary hospitality and mysterious customs of the Bedouin Arabs' Publishing News'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"'Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

    by Shokoofeh Azar ...
    A grieving family flees Tehran after the Islamic Revolution in this novel of "magical realism with a Persian twist" translated from Farsi (The Guardian, UK).When their home in Tehran is burned to the ground by zealots, killing their thirteen-year-old daughter Bahar, a once-prominent family flees to a small village. There, they hope to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But ... Read more

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  • House of Stone

    A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

    by Anthony Shadid ...
    "Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." — Philip Caputo, Washington PostIn the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather's once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not ... Read more

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  • Strange Times, My Dear

    The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature

    Edited by Nahid Mozaffari, Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak ...
    When Arcade Publishing originally contracted this extraordinary collection of poetry and literature, the Department of the Treasury was attempting to censor the publication of works from countries on America’s “enemies list.” Arcade, along with the PEN American Center, the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and the Association of American University ... Read more

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  • Behind the Veil

    An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia

    by Lydia Laube ...
    "Cardiac resuscitation was often applied to a patient who was fast asleep. The hapless victim woke from a peaceful slumber to find somebody, often an infidel, jumping up and down on his chest." Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia in a society that does not allow women to drive, vote, or speak to a man alone. Wearing head-to-toe coverings in stifling heat, and battling administrative ... Read more

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  • Journey from the Land of No

    A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

    by Roya Hakakian ...
    An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran“An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold BloomRoya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with ... Read more

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  • My Road from Damascus

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    by Jamal Saeed ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
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  • Meet Me in Gaza

    Uncommon Stories of Life Inside the Strip

    by Louisa Waugh ...
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  • The Storyteller's Daughter

    One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

    by Saira Shah ...
    Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born in London, your family in exile, and that you have never seen Afghanistan in peacetime.These are but the starting points of Saira Shah’s memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably ... Read more

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