Fiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Border Wisdom
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In his second book of poems, Ahmad Almallah seeks a language that captures the afterlives of the mother tongue. This collection blurs the borders b...
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Neither Created Nor Destroyed
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEITHER CREATED NOR DESTROYED explores the joy of "contradiction" in queer/trans-Muslim identity, lessons from the laws of thermodynamics, and dias...
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Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /At a time when we are all asking questions about identity, grief, and how to stand up for what is right, this book by the author of A Thousand Ques...
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780863565...
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The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid Ud-Din Attar
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A RICHLY-ILLUSTRATED MYSTICAL CLASSIC . NEW IN PAPERBACK. The Conference of the Birds is a twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem. The story of th...
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Surge
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York Times recently described as the "meditative heir...
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Hurricane Helpers
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Nadia and Nadir are a pair of young Muslim-American siblings living in Houston, Texas, with their mom and dad. Like all kids, they enjoy staying bu...
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Wishing Upon the Same Stars
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her ...
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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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Other Words for Home
Library BindingOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Newbery Honor Book A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, ...
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Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Including 130 poets and translators, this is an extensive look at contemporary Iranian poetry and its diaspora writers.ESSENTIAL VOICES series inte...
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Salat
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Poetry. Longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection. Salat, or salah, means prayer in Arabic. In SALAT, the structure of praye...
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Standing on Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting, imagery and a child's...
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White Carnations: 101 Tales from War-torn Syria
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In White Carnations, the Syrian fiction writer Musa Rahum Abbas, revered in the Arab world, makes his English language debut with 101 tales that sk...
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My Port of Beirut
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In August 2020, Lebanon was in the midst of a global pandemic and a devastating economic crisis. People protested in the streets, calling for the ...
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Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East. In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling,...
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Jinwar and Other Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Alex Poppe's characters celebrate the fragile grandeur of living an independent life in the aftermath of violence. Deeply rooted in place, these st...
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Hafez: Translations and Interpretations of the Ghazals
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Farsi by Geoffrey Squires. Thought by many to be untranslatable, the great 14th century Persian...
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Nasreddine
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /It's time to go to market, so Nasreddine loads up the donkey and sets off with his father. But when onlookers criticize his father for riding whi...
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The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Bestselling poetry anthology back in print. Winner of the PEN Oakland Literary Award. Arab women poets work within one of the oldest literary tra...
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No One Is on the Line: The Poetry of Mohsen Mohamed
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781942281306 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Laertes Publication Date: 09-09-2023 Pages: 98 Product Dimensions: 5.75h x 8...
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Wine of the Mystic: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Spiritual Interpretation
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This illuminating work unveils the hidden meaning of a much-admired but long-misunderstood spiritual masterpiece. Yogananda's uniquely clarifying c...
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Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
Library BindingOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /"At a time when we are all asking questions about identity, grief, and how to stand up for what is right, this book by the author of A Thousand Que...
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The Good Arabs
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, ...
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