The Lamp of Umm Hashim

Yahya Hakki

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Writing
• The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures Together with such... Lees meer

Houses behind the Trees

Mohamed El-Bisatie

• Paperback | Engels
• Set in a small village in the Egyptian Delta, El-Bisatie's finely tuned novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions in a community in which not... Lees meer

Season of Migration to the North

Tayeb Salih

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Modern Classics
• 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 ... Lees meer

The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories

Tayeb Salih

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books
• "The Wedding of Zein" unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih's tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. He... Lees meer

Arabic Short Stories

• Paperback | Engels | Literature of the Middle East
• 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 youn... Lees meer

The Fate of a Prisoner

Denys Johnson-Davies

• Paperback | Engels
• The themes in this unusual collection of short stories range from the lost innocence of childhood, betrayal, greed and the battlefield of sex, to the ... Lees meer

Homecoming

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• "Johnson-Davies, a distinguished translator from Arabic, has produced a collection of nearly 60 Egyptian short stories that usefully adds to the growi... Lees meer

Hunger

Mohamed El-Bisatie

• Paperback | Engels
• As with his earlier works, Mohamed El-Bisatie's novel is set in the Egyptian countryside, about which he writes with such understanding. Episodic in f... Lees meer

Season of Migration to the North

Tayeb Salih

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books Classics
• After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1... Lees meer

The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

Denys Johnson-Davies

• Paperback | Engels
• 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 ... Lees meer

Stories of the Caliphs

Denys Johnson-Davies

• Paperback
• An exciting and informative overview of the early years of Islam. Lees meer

The Battles of the Prophet Muhammad

Denys Johnson-Davies

• Paperback
• An exciting and informative overview of the early years of Islam. Lees meer

Under the Naked Sky

• Paperback | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

"Tigers on the Tenth Day" and Other Stories

Zakaria Tamer

• Hardcover
• Satirical stories of Syria and the Arab world look at the abuse of power by m over women, the rich over the poor, and the strong over the weak. Lees meer

Memories in Translation

Denys Johnson-Davies

• Hardcover | Engels
• Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-E... Lees meer