Women on a Journey

Haifa Zangana

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Exiled, displaced, tortured, and grieving-each of the five Iraqi women whose lives and losses come to us through Haifa Zangana's skillfully wrought no... Lees meer

A Portal in Space

Mahmoud Saeed

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• A Portal in Space , set in Basra, Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), follows the lives of Anwar, a newly minted architect, and the other memb... Lees meer

Daughter of Damascus

Siham Tergeman

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Daughter of Damascus presents a personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in the Suq Saruja ("old city") quarter of Damascus in the 1940s. Siham Terg... Lees meer

Orpheus

Nazli Eray

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphée makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspe... Lees meer

The Fetishists

Ibrahim Al-Koni

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• The Fetishists, originally published in Arabic as Al Majus, is considered the masterpiece of Ibrahim al-Koni, one of the most prolific and important w... Lees meer

The Scarecrow

Ibrahim Al-Koni

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• The Scarecrow is the final volume of Ibrahim al-Koni's Oasis trilogy, which chronicles the founding, flourishing, and decline of a Saharan oasis. Fitt... Lees meer

Hend and the Soldiers

Badriah Albeshr

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Hend is a young Saudi Arabian woman struggling to challenge her conservative society, which is represented by various soldiers, real and metaphorical,... Lees meer

Passage to Dusk

Rashid Al-Daif

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Passage to Dusk deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s in a postmodern, poetic style. The narrative focuses on the deranged, destabilized, con... Lees meer

Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep?

Rashid Al-Daif

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Rashid al-Daif's provocative novel Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep? takes an intimate look at the life of a recently married Lebanese man. Rashoud and hi... Lees meer

Talk of Darkness

Fatna El Bouih

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she wa... Lees meer

They Die Strangers

Mohammad Abdul-Wali

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• They Die Strangers, a novella and thirteen short stories, is the first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appe... Lees meer

Moon and Henna Tree

Ahmed Toufiq

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Set in the High Atlas in pre-modern Morocco, Moon and Henna Tree chronicles the rise and fall of a local potentate, Hmmu. Not content with the territo... Lees meer

Children of the Waters

Ibtihal Salem

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Ibtihal Salem's writing provides an excellent forum for studying both everyday life in Egypt and current literary experimentation in the Middle East. ... Lees meer

I've Learned Some Things

Ataol Behramoglu

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• I've Learned Some Things allows English-language readers the rare opportunity to experience the work of Ataol Behramoğlu, one of Turkey's most celebra... Lees meer

The Neighbors

Ahmad Mahmoud

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Ahmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s. His protagonist, Khaled,... Lees meer

The Black Rose of Halfeti

Nazli Eray

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• The Black Rose of Halfeti opens with a letter delivered at midnight in Ankara, Turkey. In this letter, an elderly doctor who has begun to experience t... Lees meer

The Puppet

Ibrahim Al-Koni

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• The Puppet , a mythic tale of greed and political corruption, traces the rise, flourishing, and demise of a Saharan oasis community. Aghulli, a noble ... Lees meer

New Waw, Saharan Oasis

Ibrahim Al-Koni

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Winner, National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association, 2015 Upon the death of their leader, a group of Tuareg, a nomadic Berbe... Lees meer

Whatever Happened to Antara

Walid Ikhlassi

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Walid Ikhlassi evokes the individual's struggle for dignity and significance in the Syrian city of Aleppo during the French mandate of the forties and... Lees meer

What Makes a Man?

Rashid Al-Daif

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the "West-East Divan" program, a cultural exchange effort meant to i... Lees meer

No Rattling of Sabers

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• In this collection, Esther Raizen explores the significance and value of Hebrew poetry written in response to the wars in which Israel was involved du... Lees meer

The Sheltered Quarter

Hamza Bogary

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Hamza Bogary describes a bygone way of life that has now irreversibly disappeared. He speaks of life in Mecca before the advent of oil. Only partly au... Lees meer

Siraaj

Radwa Ashour

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Set in the late nineteenth century on a mythical island off the coast of Yemen, Radwa Ashour's Siraaj: An Arab Tale tells the poignant story of a moth... Lees meer

Return to Childhood

Leila Abouzeid

• Paperback | Engels | Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
• Leila Abouzeid, whose novel Year of the Elephant has gone through six reprintings, has now translated her childhood memoir into English. Published in ... Lees meer