Middle Eastern category: 410 books
The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim
Great Egyptian Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized...
Hamlet's Arab Journey
Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's...
Contemporary Arab Women Writers
Cultural Expression in Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. Anastasia...
by Youssef Rakha
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
"Somehow I forgot to mention something else. Yes. A history-of-literature digression. It is about the Nineties. There was a flowering of poetry then. Shafie – I too – came later. The poetry of the Nineties claimed to be individualistic and pluralistic and subversive. That is why it is a reference...
Classical Arabic Stories
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These works also speak to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam, mirroring the bustling life of...
Summary and Analysis of The Kite Runner
Based on the Book by Khaled Hosseini
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Kite Runner tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Khaled Hosseini’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
by Gamal al-Ghitani
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century. Mahfouz was a pivotal figure...
by Henry George Raverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans
by H. G. Raverty
Anthology of later Sufi poets from Afghanistan, many translated directly from rare manuscripts.
"It must be remembered, that these poems are the effusions of men who never enjoyed any of what we call the luxuries of life;...
by Engin Akin
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This “long overdue tribute to the richly sensuous food of Turkey” is “handsome, intriguing, and beautifully illustrated” (Mimi Sheraton, former New York Times food critic).
Engin Akin shares her culinary mastery and describes the evolution of Turkey’s diverse culture of food in Essential...
The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent
Religions and Conflicts in Francophone Literature from the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent analyzes fiction, films, comics, autobiographical narratives, and essays by Francophone Arab writers whose Christian (Accad, Antaki, Chédid, Maalouf), Jewish (Albou, Cixous, El Maleh, Memmi), Muslim (Bachi, Benaïssa, Benguigui, Ben Jelloun, Boudjedra, Boudjellal,...
Dissident Writings of Arab Women
Voices Against Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices Against Violence analyzes the links between creative dissidence and inscriptions of violence in the writings of a selected group of postcolonial Arab women.
The female authors destabilize essentialist framings of Arab identity through a series of reflective...
Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing
Heuristic Implications of the Recto-Verso Effect
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page—or in this case, the cover, (recto) controls...
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language
literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman
shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary
French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim
that these...
Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition
History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Alexander the Great (356–333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian language.