Middle Eastern category: 410 books
Art & War
Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel’s most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum – Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot – the...
Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia
Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by al-Isfahani
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897–971) is the most extensive collection of anecdotes from pre–Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad to the beginning of the tenth century. Entertaining and informative, these gems have remained largely inaccessible to Western readers. This...
by Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Se trata de un estudiante, hijo de labradores pobres, que cursa leyes en Salamanca con condición de criado. En ello se ocupa ocho años, simultaneando el derecho con las letras humanas. Tras de una escapada aventurera como soldado por Italia, retorna a Salamanca y prosigue sus estudios hasta graduarse...
West of the Jordan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling...
Missing Soluch
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Perhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.
Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines...
Monarch of the Square
An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf’s Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco’s greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers.
Zafzaf’s stories are...
DAVID OF SASSUN
NATIONAL EPOS OF ARMENIA
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This volume is an essential reading for all who love literature, especially for those who would like to familiar themselves with the essence of the Armenian literature. The David of Sassoun (Sasountsi David - Սասունցի Դավիթ) heroic tail will bring back the nostalgic feelings associated with revisiting the Armenian classic literature.
Transformations of the Liminal Self
Configurations of Home and Identity for Muslim Characters in British Postcolonial Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
The concept of home has been changing for more than a century. This change began with colonialism and the movement of people across the globe, often within a set power dynamic. Since people now move with greater frequency, the question of where home is and what home means is more relevant than ever...
Old Wine, Broken Bottle
Ari Shavit's Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
My Promised Land by Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit has been one of the most widely discussed and lavishly praised books about Israel in recent years. It has garnered encomiums from a broad spectrum of influential voices, including Thomas Friedman, David Remnick, Jonathan Freedland, Jeffrey Goldberg,...
Jasmine and Stars
Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy. Her fresh perspective on present-day Iran provides a rare insight into this rich culture alive...
Lost Wisdom
Rethinking Modernity in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
In the essays collected here, Abbas Milani uses an impressive array of cross-disciplinary Western and Iranian theories and texts to investigate the crucial question of modernity in Iran today. He offers a wealth of new insights into the thousand-year-old conflict in Iran between the search for modernity...
by David Tresilian
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks...
In a Persian Mirror
Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the past decade have astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable. In this groundbreaking study of images of the West in Iranian literature, however, M. R. Ghanoonparvar reveals...
Arabic Literature
An Overview
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually treated separately, are presented together. Cachia's...