Resultaten gefilterd op "Saqi Books"

Belonging and Globalisation

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection brings together leading voices involved in shaping the artistic and cultural scenes outside the Western mainstream. Focusing on the co... Lees meer

What's Really Wrong with the Middle East

Brian Whitaker

• Paperback | Engels
• "A passionate call for political and social change in Arab countries . . . and a stern critique of the status quo."Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East edito... Lees meer

The Queer Arab Glossary

• Paperback | Engels
• A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributions by leading Arab queer writers, thinkers and activi... Lees meer

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

Nawal El Saadawi

• Paperback | Engels
• Rebelling against the constraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman in a class of men. ... Lees meer

The Flood

Maggie Gee

• Paperback | Engels
• President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich ... Lees meer

Art of Palestinian Embroidery

Laila El-Khalidi

• Paperback | Engels
• The Palestinian folk arts have a rich and fascinating history. Silk thread and embroidery, together with an expanding repertoire of symbols, are known... Lees meer

Sea of Troubles

Ian Rutledge

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vas... Lees meer

Victims of a Map

Adonis, Mahmud Darwish, Samih Al-Qasim

• Paperback | Engels
• A bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years Lees meer

A Love Story

Ghazi Algosaibi

• Paperback | Engels
• Through a sequence of dreams, flashbacks and conversations, Yacoub Iryan, a dying novelist, reflects upon his life, his achievements, and his passiona... Lees meer

Croatia Through History

Branka Maga?

• Hardcover | Engels
• This comprehensive volume recounts Croatia's development from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Branka Magas observes that the ties that bound... Lees meer

Woman Life Freedom

• Paperback | Engels
• Jina Mahsa Amini's death at the hands of Iran's Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to the... Lees meer

Legacy of Empire

Gardner Thompson

• Paperback | Engels
• It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire's historic responsibility for Pale... Lees meer

An Optimum Base for Pricing Middle Eastern Crude Oil

Abdulaziz M Aldukheil

• Hardcover | Engels
• Focusing on Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz M. Aldukheil examines the deficiencies of present price-setting methods where production (extraction), trade, retu... Lees meer

Beirut, I Love You

Zena el Khalil

• Paperback
• In the streets armed militias carve out their territories, while ragged construction workers rebuild the city. At any moment, the bombs will start fal... Lees meer

Icons: Divine Beauty

Richard Temple

• Hardcover | Engels
• Richard Temple's lavishly illustrated book provides a concise but thorough tour through the ages, including famous works, as well as many rarely seen,... Lees meer

Nabil Anani

Nabil Anani

• Paperback | Engels
• Nabil Anani is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. A painter, ceramicist and sculptor, he has built an impressive catalogue o... Lees meer

Stories and Scenes from Mount Lebanon

Mahmoud Khalil Saab

• Hardcover | Engels
• At the outbreak of civil war in 1975 Mahmoud Khalil Saab realised that Lebanon would be changed forever. A man with a deep love for his country, he im... Lees meer

Return to the Shadows

Alison Pargeter

• Hardcover | Engels
• "This book addresses one of the great conundrums of the Arab Awakening: the failure of moderate political Islam. A highly timely analysis ... it offer... Lees meer

Arab Social Life in the Middle Ages

Shirley Gurthrie

• Hardcover | Engels
• Guthrie's vivid portrait of everyday life in the medieval Arab world draws on thirteenth-century miniatures from collections as far a field as St Pete... Lees meer

100 Myths About the Middle East

Fred Halliday

• Paperback
• In this book Halliday debunks one hundred of the most commonly misconstrued 'facts' concerning the Middle East - in the political, cultural, social an... Lees meer

Lebanon Adrift

Samir Khalaf

• Paperback | Engels
• Lebanon today is at a fateful crossroads in its eventful socio-cultural and political history. Imperiled by unsettling transformations, from postwar r... Lees meer

Sexuality in Islam

Abdelwahab Bouhdiba

• Paperback | Engels | Saqi Essentials
• Arguing that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status, this work represents an attempt to integrate the religious... Lees meer

Images from the Endgame

John Tchalenko

• Paperback | Engels
• Alexander Ivanovitch Iyas, officer in the Tsar's Lithuanian Regiment, arrived in Persia in 1901. Through his years there he documented places, people,... Lees meer

A Cage Without Bars

Ibrahim Yared

• Paperback | Engels
• In his intensely moving memoirs, Ibrahim Yared offers a vivid portrait of the experience of ageing. Lees meer