Fiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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The Complete Persepolis: 20th Anniversary Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - Persepolis is a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most beloved graphic novels of all time. For the ...
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR"An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." —Susan OrleanAward-winning journalist Delphine Minou...
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An Encounter with Dylan Thomas
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Abadan, 1951. Iran and Britain are bracing for battle over the continued British monopoly of Iran's oil. Twenty-nine-year-old Ebrahim Golestan, who...
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Father Takes a Drink and Other Memories of Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Heydar Radjavi's memories of the 1930s and 1940s, when he was growing up in Iran (a country he describes as one that has been "in ambivalent flirta...
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Fasting for Ramadan Cloth
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /To go without food from dawn to dusk for the month of Ramadan - how does this feel? When we deny our major appetites, what do we become? Kazim Ali ...
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Garden of the Brave in War: Recollections of Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /When Terence O'Donnell, an American who lived in Iran for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, was asked what he was doing there, he replied, "The...
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Nizar Qabbani: Women in My Poetry and in My Life: Translated into English with an Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $30.25 - Original price $30.25Original price $30.25$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Nizar Qabbani's own words: "This book in which I have collected some of my dialogues with the press... and excerpts from TV interviews concernin...
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Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Uprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus m...
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Nizar Qabbani: My Story with Poetry - "An Autobiography"
PaperbackOriginal price $40.25 - Original price $40.25Original price $40.25$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /As the title of this book indicates, this is Nizar's journey in life as a student, a son, a man, a lover, a revolutionary, a rebel, a diplomat, a p...
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The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist. For four decades, he was a dominant figure in political...
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While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambas...
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Rumi Essays: On the Life, Poetry, and Vision of the Greatest Persian Sufi Poet
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a 13th-centry Persian Sufi poet, is one of the most widely-read poets today. But who was Rumi really? How do we know what ...
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An Iraqi in Paris
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A fully revised third edition in translation of this best-selling 'gem of autobiographical writing' in the Arab world, by an author who has been ca...
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Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb i...
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Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular per...
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Hakim's Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The end of a journey, the beginning of a new life --I'm Syrian, and I got here from Turkey. --Whoaaa! That's a hell of a trip! --You could say t...
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Mahmud Sami Al-Barudi: Reconfiguring Society and the Self
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets--the perils and promises--of change in the rapidly...
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Hear Us Speak: Letters from Arab Women
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /IF ARAB WOMEN WERE GIVEN A VOICE, WHAT STORY WOULD THEY TELL? To be a woman is a gift. But that gift does not come without challenges. Historicall...
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Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this essay collection explores the ways in...
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Hakim's Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What choices would you make to reunite your family?“You know, Haidi, we’re going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama.”In exile a...
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Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-...
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In Tangier
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The sights and sounds of 70's Tangier are brought vividly to life, as are the larger-than-life characters of extraordinary men, through ordinary ev...
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We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A collection of essays about Armenian identity and belonging in the diaspora. In the century since the Armenian Genocide, Armenian survivors and t...
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