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  • Sand-Catcher

    de Omar Khalifah ...
    Traducido por Barbara Romaine ...
    A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted.Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked, on account of their heritage, with profiling one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba, the violent expulsion of native Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. Confident that the old man will be all too happy to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Waiting for the Past

    A Novel

    de Hadiya Hussein ...
    Traducido por Barbara Romaine ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    Hadiya Hussein’s poignant 2017 novel plunges readers into a haunting and powerful story of resilience. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein’s brutal reign, the novel follows Narjis, a young Iraqi woman, on her quest to discover what has become of the man she loves. Yusef, suspected by the regime of being a dissident, has disappeared—presumably either imprisoned or executed. On her journey, Narjis ... Leer más

    $13.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore

    de Mohamed Mansi Qandil ...
    Traducido por Barbara Romaine ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    Shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010, this finely constructed epic traces the turbulent life of Aisha, an Egyptian girl raised in a Christian convent beyond the reach of a predatory uncle. With her English education, Aisha crosses paths with Lord Cromer, British consul-general of Egypt, and famed archaeologist Howard Carter, with whom she will trek to locate Tutankhamen's tomb. Fate ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Financial Institutions in Distress

    Recovery, Resolution, and Recognition

    de Ronald Davis, Stephan Madaus, Monica Marcucci, Irit Mevorach, Riz Mokal, Barbara Romaine, Janis Sarra, Ignacio Tirado ...
    Political boundaries are often porous to finance, financial intermediation, and financial distress. Yet they are highly impervious to financial regulation. When inhabitants of a country suffering a deficit of purchasing power are able to access and deploy funds flowing in from a country with a surfeit of such power, the inhabitants of both countries may benefit. They may also benefit when ... Leer más

    $153.89 USD

  • Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Insolvency

    A Modular Approach

    de Riz Mokal, Ronald Davis, Alberto Mazzoni, Irit Mevorach, Madam Justice Barbara Romaine, Janis Sarra, Ignacio Tirado, Stephan Madaus ...
    This new book systematically examines the current process for distressed Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), and proposes a different, more appropriate, 'modular' approach to the treatment of such entities when faced with insolvency proceedings. MSMEs play a vital role in virtually all global economies. They are a primary means by which entrepreneurs bring new business propositions to the ... Leer más

    $97.19 USD

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  • The Corpse Exhibition

    And Other Stories of Iraq

    de Hassan Blasim ...
    Traducido por Jonathan Wright ...
    **A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s Redeployment does for the American perspective“[A] wonderful collection.” —George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review**The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The ... Leer más

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  • Breaking Knees

    Sixty-three Very Short Stories from Syria

    de Zakaria Tamer ...
    Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamer's stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the storm that has brought Syria to near-disintegration. Tamer's stories explore taboos and power relations, bringing together religion, politics and ... Leer más

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  • Last Chapter

    de Leila Abouzeid ...
    This thought-provoking, semi-autobiographical book tells the story of Aisha, a young Moroccan woman, and her struggle to find an identity in the Morocco of the second half of the twentieth century. Charting Aisha's path through adolescence and young adulthood up to the present, her story is told through a series of flashbacks, anecdotes, and glimpses of the past, all bound up with a strong, often ... Leer más

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  • Love in the Rain

    de Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Traducido por Nancy Roberts ...
    A vibrant novel of memorable characters who search for happiness and true love, cope with the bitterness that results from love's betrayal, and embrace new beginnings. Set in Cairo in the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967, Love in the Rain introduces us to an assortment of characters who, each in his or her own way, experience the effects of this calamitous event. The war and its casualties, as ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Last Pomegranate Tree

    Traducido por Kareem Abdulrahman ...
    de Bachtyar Ali ...
    An extraordinary chronicle of war and an occult story of love between a father and his son from one of Iraq’s most celebrated contemporary writers“Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child. Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen.”So begins Bachtyar Ali’s The Last Pomegranate, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Madinah

    City Stories from the Middle East

    de Joumana Haddad, Hassan Blasim, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed ...
    Featuring:Nedim Gursel (Istanbul), Gamal Al-Ghitani (Alexandria), Fadwa Al-Qasem (Dubai), Ala Hlehel (Akka), Hassan Blasim (Baghdad), Yousef Al-Mohaimeed (Riyadh), Elias Farkouh (Amman), Nabil Sulayman (Latakia), Joumana Haddad (Beirut), and Yitzhak Laor (Tel Aviv).About the Book‘Madinah’ – the Arabic word for ‘city’ – may conjure labyrinthine streets and the hustle and bustle of the souq in ... Leer más

    $6.70 USD

  • The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody

    A Novel

    de Ahmed Taibaoui ...
    Traducido por Jonathan Wright ...
    Series series Hoopoe Fiction
    WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREA BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB)ONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)A man disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he expectedIn Rouiba, a nondescript suburb of Algiers, an unnamed man with a troubled past escapes his everyday life to find himself caring for an ol... ... Leer más

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