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1	Season of Migration to the North more books like this by Tayeb Salih add to wishlist The nameless narrator of this Sudanese novel (translated from the Arabic) returns home to his village on the Nile after studying in England. There he encounters a man named Mustafa Sa'eed, who has also spent time in London, where his goal was to seduce as many white women as possible. When he in turn becomes obsessed with a woman as cold-hearted ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.04! \| SVS
2	Palace Walk more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist The first volume in Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy looks into the lives of the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad, a merchant who forces his family to follow strict religious rules while he follows his desires, sampling the alluring nightlife of the city. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.96! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Palace of Desire more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist The second part of "The Cairo Trilogy" by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a true-life Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous, belching, self-adoring patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family in domestic turmoil, with feuding in-laws. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Midaq Alley more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz add to wishlist Centred around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo: Kirsha, the cafe-owner with a scandalous predilection for young boys, Hamida, the matchmaker's daughter, and Zaita, the cripple-maker - who maims and disfigures people who wish to become beggars. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.15! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Chicago more books like this by Alaa Al Aswany add to wishlist The new novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Yacoubian Building see all copies from $2.53! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Harafish more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist Written by a Nobel Prize-winner, this is a mythic tale with a modern, soap-opera-like plot, featuring the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family. It displays the weaknesses of the human character - pride, dishonesty, lust, greed - and of the greatness we are capable of when we overcome them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.78! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Arabian Nights and Days more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist Based on the THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, Mahfouz's ARABIAN NIGHTS AND DAYS consists of 17 interwoven stories in a lighter vein than is usual for this Nobel laureate. see all copies from $2.47! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories more books like this by Ghassan Kanafani add to wishlist Though they chronicle life in a country that has witnessed extraordinary and often violent political, economic, and cultural change, the works are striking in their light and intimate tone. They include personal reminiscences of childhood, travel essays, and observations of village life and custom. Among the most prominent of the featured authors ... see all copies from $2.05! new only from $13.73!
9	Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology more books like this by Professor Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Editor) add to wishlist Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to the personal and historical experiences of modern Arabs. This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The ... see all copies from $14.97! new only from $34.50! \| SVS
10	Sugar Street more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz add to wishlist Taking the story into the 1930s and '40s, Mahfouz continues his exploration of a Cairo family trying to cope with change, age, and the vagaries of the younger generation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction more books like this by Denys Johnson-Davies (Editor) add to wishlist 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 to Sudan in the south. Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said "the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time," this treasury of Arab voices is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Palace walk more books like this by Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist This is a sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his ... see all copies from $2.41! new only from $10.95!
13 view cover	Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories more books like this by Dalya Cohen-Mor (Editor) add to wishlist Consisting of sixty short stories by forty women writers from across the Arab world, this collection opens numerous windows onto Arab culture and society and offers keen sights into what Arab women feel and think. The stories deal not only with feminist issues but also with topics of a social, cultural, and political nature. Different styles and ... see all copies from $21.79! new only from $23.95! \| SVS
14 view cover	Beirut blues more books like this by Hanan al-Shaykh add to wishlist Asmahan, a young Lebanese woman, writes a series of letters in an attempt to make sense of her life and the war in Beirut, and to preserve her images of the pre-war city. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Men in the Sun more books like this by Ghassan Kanafani, Hilary Kilpatrick (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $93.34! \| first editions
16 view cover	Women and the War Story more books like this by Miriam Cooke add to wishlist This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, showing how women who write themselves and their experiences into the "War Story" undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality and glory. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.96! \| SVS
17 view cover	Sugar street more books like this by Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist "Sugar Street", the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz's masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.15!
18 view cover	Palace of desire more books like this by Najib Mahfuz add to wishlist The sensual and provocative second volume in the "Cairo Trilogy", "Palace Of Desire" follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing ... see all copies from $4.23! new only from $11.85!
19 view cover	The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant more books like this by Sahar Khalifeh, Aida Bamia (Translator) add to wishlist This award-winning novel is at once a recasting of the story of the Holy Family, an ode to Arab Jerusalem, and a call for liberation, not just of a nation but for the individual women and men who inhabit it. After abandoning his beloved Mariam when she becomes pregnant, and escaping her brothers' bullets, Ibrahim abandons his own ideals and dreams ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97! \| SVS
20 view cover	Egyptian Writers Between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim, Gamal Al-Ghitani more books like this by Samia Mehrez add to wishlist Taking as the basis of her study the premise that the boundaries of history and literature are difficult to define, and that the two disciplines represent two related types of narrative discourse, Samia Mehrez in a series of six essays delves into the work of three leading contemporary Egyptian writers: the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah ... see all copies from $4.23! new only from $13.90! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction more books like this by Roger Allen add to wishlist This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 19th century until today. It traces the origin, early cultivation and the mature period after World War II of the Arabic novel. see all copies from $12.49! new only from $15.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Voices of Change: Short Stories by Saudi Arabian Women Writers more books like this by Abu Bakr Bagader add to wishlist This anthology consists of a selection of works from the last three decades of women's writing in Saudi Arabia. They offer a rare insight into the traditional and changing roles, relationships and expectations of women in a patriarchal society. see all copies from $9.95! new only from $20.44!
23	Mafouz and Idris: Studies in Arabic Short Fiction more books like this by Mona Mikhail add to wishlist In this comparative approach to the works of two major contemporary Egyptian writers, Mona Mikhail identifies existenialism as a major force in their work. Her close examination of the images and metaphors that recur in the short fiction of Mafouz and Idris shows strong affinities with the works of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus, concentrating ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $55.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Rites of Assent PB more books like this by Abd Al-Hakim Qasim, Peter Theroux (Translator), Samia Mehrez (Introduction by) add to wishlist Abd al-Hakim Qasim (1935-1990), one of modern Egypt's great novelists, began writing short stories while imprisoned for his leftwing politics under the Nasser regime in the 1960s. This period in Qasim's life, along with his subsequent exile in Germany and his opposition to the Camp David Agreement, led him to avoid political commentary in his ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction more books like this by Matti Moosa add to wishlist The first edition of this book, completed in 1970, was hailed as a major contribution to scholarship on the development of Arabic fiction in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this revised and greatly expanded second edition, Matti Moosa has added five entirely new chapters - one on the popular dialogues of Abd Allah Nadim, and four devoted to ... see all copies from $9.14! new only from $41.17! \| first editions

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