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1	The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Professor Edward W Said (Introduction by), William M Hutchins (Translator) add to wishlist (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of "The Cairo ... see all copies from $21.54! new only from $22.01! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Last of the Angels more books like this by Fadhil Al-Azzawi, William M Hutchins (Translator) add to wishlist Set in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk during the 1950s, "The Last of the Angels" tells the slyly humorous tale of three strikingly different people in one small neighborhood. During a labor strike against the British-run Iraq Petroleum Company, Hameed Nylon becomes a labor organizer and later a revolutionary, like his hero, Mao Tse-Tung. His ... see all copies from $5.18! new only from $17.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Cell Block Five more books like this by Fadhil Al-Azzawi, William M Hutchins (Translator) add to wishlist Being plucked from a Baghdad cafe and deposited in a cell block for political prisoners is a wakeup call for Aziz, the novel's hero and narrator, a young man who has been living on automatic pilot - as if he were a guest visiting his own life - and he is finally forced to come to terms with the flawed world we inhabit and shape. Although never ... see all copies from $6.75! new only from $6.91! \| SVS
4	Plays, Prefaces & Postscripts of Tawfiq Al-Hakim more books like this by William M. Hutchins (Designed by), Tawfiq Al-Hakim add to wishlist This volume collects the dramatic and critical writings of the Egyptian playwright Al-Hakim, who is among the most popular writers of the Arab world. Much of the work translated here has never before been available in English. see all copies from $17.50! new only from $20.43!
5	Return of the Spirit: Tawfig Al-Hakim's Classic Novel of the 1919 Revolution: First Complete English Translation more books like this by William M. Hutchins (Translator), Tawfiq Al-Hakim add to wishlist see all copies from $10.28! new only from $44.38!
6	Tawfiq Al-Hakim: A Reader's Guide more books like this by William M Hutchins add to wishlist The works of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987), the prolific and influential Egyptian playwright, novelist, and essayist, are of course interesting because of al-Hakim's artistic presentation of insights into the universal human condition. But they also record fertile collisions between religion and secularism, modern Arab society and ancient Greek ... see all copies from $17.97! new only from $17.97! \| first editions
7	Basrayatha: Portrait of a City more books like this by Mohammed Khudayyir, William M Hutchins (Translator) add to wishlist "Basrayatha" is a literary tribute by author Mohammed Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets as well as its stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real city of Basra and Basrayatha, the imagined ... see all copies from $11.47! new only from $16.93!
8	Return of the Spirit: Tawfig Al-Hakim's Classic Novel of the 1919 Revolution: First Complete English Translation more books like this by Taw P. Al-Hakim, William M. Hutchins (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $99.00!
9	The Seven Veils of Seth: A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya more books like this by Ibrahim Al-Koni, William M Hutchins (Translator) add to wishlist In the ancient Egyptian religion, Seth is the evil god who out of jealousy slays his brother Osiris, the good god of agriculture, to seize the throne. Seth is, however, also the god of the desert and therefore a benevolent champion of desert dwellers like the traditionally nomadic Kel Tamasheq, better known as the Tuareg. In "The Seven Veils of ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $15.01! \| SVS
10	Ten Again and Other Stories more books like this by Ibrahim Al-Mazini, William M Hutchins (Translator) add to wishlist One of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. see all copies from $14.00!
11	Cairo Modern more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz add to wishlist This is a major early novel by the Egyptian Nobel laureate, published for the first time in English. The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s. Finally the ... see all copies from $9.26! new only from $9.26! \| SVS
12	Al-Mazini's Egypt more books like this by Ibrahim Abd al-Qadir Mazini, William M. Hutchins add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00!
13 view cover	In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories more books like this by William M. Hutchins (Editor), Tawfiq Al-Hakim add to wishlist see all copies from $14.99! new only from $32.82!
14	Egyptian Tales and Short Stories of the 1970s and 1980s more books like this by William M Hutchins add to wishlist see all copies from $6.18!
15 view cover	In the tavern of life & other stories more books like this by Tawfiq Hakim, William M. Hutchins add to wishlist see all copies from $32.58! new only from $32.58!

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