Fiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Blind Owl (Authorized by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation Into English Based on the Bombay Edition)
HardcoverOriginal price $29.86 - Original price $29.86Original price $29.86$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. ...
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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Harvey Pekar explores what it mean...
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Rifqa
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature. The book...
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Footnotes in Gaza
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some sm...
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Rifqa
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd's ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. 'Jerusalem is ours.'Produ...
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The New World of Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $15.96 - Original price $15.96Original price $15.96$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The New World of Islam, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we hav...
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Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how Iranian literature has functioned and circulated since the 1979 revolution until the pre...
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The Melting-Pot
PaperbackOriginal price $13.72 - Original price $13.72Original price $13.72$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Melting-Pot, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republ...
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Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Transnational Culture studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population wit...
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Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity...
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The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /With its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli's wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid D...
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The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /With its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli's wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid D...
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A Language of One's Own: Literary Arabic, the Palestinians and Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Following the establishment of Israel in 1948, literary Arabic became one of the main representative of Palestinian national identity within Israel...
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The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World; or, The History, Geography, and Antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia: V
HardcoverOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World is a comprehensive history of the ancient Near East. The book covers the history of the regi...
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The Lost Ten Tribes
PaperbackOriginal price $12.50 - Original price $12.50Original price $12.50$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /This book details the scriptures that apply to the "Lost Tribes of Israel." It shows how many of them went to Ireland, England, and other European ...
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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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Palestina En Pedazos / Palestine in Pieces
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Un gran cuaderno de reflexiones en el que la autora funde lecturas y recuerdos sobre la tierra que sus ancestros se vieron obligados a abandonar en...
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Tiflî Hikâyeleri
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /IV. Murad İstanbul'unda ge√ßen ve cinsellik, para, aşk ve şiddet gibi konuları işleyen Tıfl√Æ hik√¢yeleri, 19. y√ºzyıl Osmanlı d√ºzyazı edebiyatını...
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Towards the Sun: The Mother on Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Ah, but we lived together in Egypt. I've known you from the time of Egypt, I know that. You are one of those to whom I said in Egypt, "I promise yo...
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Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature's rich tradition, taking various forms from the coarse and obscene to the su...
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The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café...
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Qu Yuan and the Chuci: New Approaches
HardcoverOriginal price $155.00 - Original price $155.00Original price $155.00$169.99$169.99 - $169.99Current price $169.99| /In this volume, leading scholars of early Chinese literature offer new, multi-faceted research on the ancient anthology Lyrics of Chu (Chuci). Thro...
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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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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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