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  • Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

    New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘?mmiyya

    by N. Radwan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Volume 3

    Series Book 3 - The Arabian Nights
    Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Song of the Caged Bird

    Words as Resistance in Palestine

    by Marcello Di Cintio ...
    For political readers and anyone invested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Marcello Di Cintio's Song of the Caged Bird is a refreshing look at Palestinian resistance--through literature and the power of books.When Marcello Di Cintio began teaching at the Palestine Writing Workshop in Ramallah, he avoided making reference to the occupation in his assignments at first--to see if his students ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Orientalism Revisited

    Art, Land and Voyage

    Edited by Ian Netton ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revisit the state of the Orientalist debate, both past and present.The leitmotiv of this book is its emphasis on an intimate ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature

    by David Tresilian ...
    Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Egypt: Pyramids and Pharaohs

    Egyptian Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Ancient History Books
    Bring ancient Egypt back to life with this fun educational book! What makes this book unique is that it tackles the subject of pharaohs and pyramids in a highly interactive way. There are only a handful of texts included so there’s more space for pictures, and the imagination. Go ahead and secure a copy of this learning resource today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Art & War

    Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction

    by Lavie Tidhar, Shimon Adaf ...
    Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel’s most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum – Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot – the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Mahfouz Dialogs

    by Gamal al-Ghitani ...
    Translated by Humphrey Davies ...
    The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century. Mahfouz was a pivotal figure not only in world literature (through being awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988 he ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

    by Jeffrey Sacks ...
    In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Burying the Beloved

    Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran

    by Amy Motlagh ...
    Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of "the real." It examines seminal works that foreground acute ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

    by Anna Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners including Michel Khleifi , Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum and Suheir ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • America in An Arab Mirror

    Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology

    by K. Abdel-Malek ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently ... Read more

    $49.99 USD