Fiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?
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Impostures
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La princesa y la arveja. Un cuento en Perú / La Princesa and the Pea
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New Names for Lost Things
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Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all maste...
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The Book of Travels: Volume One
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man f...
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Rumi Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99Rumi has been described as "the most popular poet" in the United States. Rumi's popularity has gone beyond national and ethnic borders. He is con...
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The Book of Travels: Volume Two
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man f...
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Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99These selections from Rumi's Mathnawi - a classic of Sufi spiritual literature - express the "lion's roar" of courage, discipline, clarity, and i...
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I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99I Am the Beggar of the World presents an eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women.Because my love's American,blisters blossom...
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Little Mountain
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975—1990), Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint F...
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The Oasis of Now: Selected Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99The Oasis of Now is the first U.S. book publication of the works of Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980), one of the major Iranian poets of the twentieth c...
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Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi
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In the Pockets of Small Gods
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Lean Against This Late Hour
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La Madre Goose: Nursery Rhymes for los Niños
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99Classic favorites get a modern Latino twist, with Spanish sprinkled throughoutThe itsy arañita climbed up the water spout. Down came la lluvia an...
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The Conference of the Birds
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Time
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Deluge
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge… Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a M...
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The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. I...
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Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi
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Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99Assia Djebar, one of the most distinguished woman writers to emerge from the Arab world, wrote Children of the New World following her own involv...
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Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
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Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's...
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