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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author
Series
Cairo Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as two of Ahmad's sons court alluring women. Sequel to "Palace walk" and second story in "The Cairo trilogy".
4) Sugar Street
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Near the end of his life, an ill family patriarch surveys his family--son Kamal, in love with a prostitute; and his grandchildren, among them a communist activist, a Muslim fundamentalist, and a politician--as they face middle age.
Author
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Children often wonder what is the purpose of everything that surrounds them. This charming illustrated story helps the reader discover how everyone is important and how something that seems to have no purpose for someone, can in fact be essential to others"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in downtown Cairo intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout doorman, secretly-gay editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together.
7) Sarab
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Publisher
Hoopoe
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"November 1979. Violence has broken out in the holiest site of Islam after a charismatic rebel and his devoted followers have announced the coming of the Mahdi and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Among the insurgents is a young woman, Sarab, disguised as a man. As the horror and chaos of the siege reach their peak, she escapes and encounters a French officer from the opposing side. They form an unexpected bond, as hostility turns to attraction,...
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Publisher
Interlink Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The story begins hundreds of years ago, when our hero—Qamr—is born as an outcast, at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, near her father’s strange, isolated village. Qamr’s mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd, conservative village. Then, in 1001 Nights style, this tale moves into another. Qamr’s parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Qamr takes her favorite book, Wondrous Journeys in...
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Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman live three sisters. Mayya Marries after a heartbreak. Asma marries from a sense of duty. Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. Celestial Bodies is the story of the history and people of modern Oman told through one family's losses and loves.
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Publisher
Hoopoe, an imprint of the American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan Ibn Numan. Her predecessor had been captured and killed by the Umayyad forces some years earlier, but she will go on to defeat Ibn Numan's forces. The Night Will Have Its Say is a retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa during the Middle Ages, narrated from the perspective...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool ... against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.
15) Palace Walk
Author
Series
Cairo Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hoopoe
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
+ Add to Wishlist Browse Related Subjects Fiction in translation Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo's Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month nightmare as he was swept up, along with fifty other men, in the infamous Queen Boat affair that targeted Egypt's gay community. Finally free, but traumatized into speechlessness,...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is—after...