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    Season of Migration to the North

    Tayeb Salih

    The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led…

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    Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World

    Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, the author brings together a mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. These thirty stories…

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    The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

    This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north…

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    The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim: Great Egyptian Writers

    Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. Among his best-known plays are The Sultan’s Dilemma and The Tree Climber . In this volume…

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    Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories

    Key selections of Egyptian authors by the world renowned, award-winning translator of Arabic fiction. Ideal introduction to the Arabic short story for anyone studying Arabic.

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    The Naguib Mahfouz Reader

    Denys Johnson-Davies

    A selection of the most important works of Egypt’s Nobel literature laureate

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    Memories in Translation: A Life Between the Lines of Arabic Literature

    Denys Johnson-Davies

    Presents the life and works of Denys Johnson-Davies, who was described by the late Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator of our time. With more than twenty-five volumes of…

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    The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim

    Tawfiq Hakim

    Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. Among his best-known plays are The Sultan’s Dilemma and The Tree Climber . In this volume…

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    Arabic Short Stories

    An alleyway of Tangier as seen through the eyes of a prostitute, the price paid by a sophisticated Cairene philanderer for his infatuation with a young bedouin girl, the callous…

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    Forty Hadith Qudsi

    The hadith qudsi are the sayings of the Prophet divinely communicated to him. The present collection has been compiled from all the available books of hadith. The forty chosen here…

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    The Essential Yusuf Idris

    Yusuf Idris

    Yusuf Idris (1927-91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story…

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    The Lamp of Umm Hashim: and Other Stories

    Yahya Hakki

    Describes individuals who somehow manage to scrape through life’s hardships.

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    Final Night: Short Stories

    Buthaina Al Nasiri

    A collection of short stories that focuses on love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it. It reflects the author’s deeply felt nostalgia…

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    Hunger: A Modern Arabic Novel

    Mohamed El-Bisatie

    Sakeena’s life revolves round trying to provide her family with the necessary daily bread that will stave off starvation. Her husband Zaghloul works on and off at one of the…

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    Houses behind the Trees

    Mohamed El-Bisatie

    Set in a small village in the Nile Delta, this novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions of a community in which nothing is secret and the past haunts every…

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    Hunger: An Egyptian Novel

    Mohamed El-Bisatie

    Sakeena’s life revolves round trying to provide her family with the necessary daily loaves of bread that will stave off starvation. Labor-shy Zaghloul works on and off at one of…

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    The Hedgehog

    Zakaria Tamer

    Introduces readers the author’s world: his house (with the djinn girl who lives in his bedroom), his garden (where he wishes to be a tree), and his best friend the…

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    The Wedding of Zein

    Tayeb Salih

    The Wedding of Zein takes place in the same village on the upper Nile where Salih’s Season of Migration to the North is largely set, but here the story that…

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    Season of Migration to the North

    Tayeb Salih

    The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led…

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    The Goodly Word: Al-Kalim Al-Tayyib

    Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya

    Exclusively based on what the Prophet Muhammad himself said and did, this title is one of the most referred to works on prayer and the merits of prayer. Bilingual Arabic-English…

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    An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith

    Yahya b. Sharaf al-Nawawi

    This collection of forty hadith by one of the most famous compilers of hadith is generally regarded as the most popular anthology and the best introduction to the study of…

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    Al-Ghazali on the Manners Related to Eating: Book XI of the Revival of the Religious Sciences

    Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

    This is the eleventh chapter of Revival of the Religious Sciences which is widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. This volume begins the section dealing with the…

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    In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates

    A collection of short fiction from the Arabian Gulf. It tells of those times and the almost unbelievable changes that have come about in the space of two generations.

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