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Paperback • eBook • 184pp
"A flavourful and entertaining memoir of his friendship with a shape-shifting, rule-breaking character" – Boyd Tonkin
Read more...Paperback • eBook • 160pp
Both formats available now
Taleb Alrefai turns a spotlight on Kuwait’s pearl-fishing history in this enthralling fictional re-telling of the day the country’s famous shipmaster Captain Al-Najdi was lost at sea.
Read more...Paperback • eBook • 92pp
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"This intense, glacial fantasy is the work of a literary master. At a subliminal level, it can be read as the intellectual’s despairing and suicidal attack on inhuman political power" – James Kirkup
Read more...Paperback • 120pp • £9.99
Illustrated with 20 paintings by Reem Yassouf
First collection in English translation for Syrian poet Nouri Al-Jarrah. Translated from the Arabic by Camilo Gómez-Rivas and Allison Blecker.
Paperback • 282pp • £9.99
A fully revised third edition in translation of this best-selling ‘gem of autobiographical writing’ in the Arab world, by an author who has been called ‘a relentless raconteur’, ‘a modern Odysseus’, ‘the Iraqi Don Quixote’.
Paperback • 154pp • £7.99 • $15
These Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Sargon Boulus himself before his untimely passing, are a commemoration and celebration of him and his influential work.
180pp • £7.99 • €12 • $15
Selected Poems
First English-language collection for Ramsey Nasr, the Palestinian-Dutch Poet Laureate of the Netherlands.
Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Introduction by Victor Schiferli and Foreword by Ruth Padel
“With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of global scope," writes renowned American poet Marilyn Hacker
186pp • £7.95 • $15
Selected Poems
Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poet's Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.
Paperback • 124 pages • £7.99
Here is the brilliantly observed clutter and comedy of everyday lives, the lives of ordinary people pushed up against an iron occupation and fighting for survival . . .
• To read the title story Mordechai's Moustache and his Wife's Cats, online, click here.
Paperback • 120 pages • £7.99 • $15
From Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. George, Kamal, Mayy, Abdullah, Nadia, William, all have to begin their lives again, learn how to deal with their memories, with their pasts . . .
Paperback • 128pp • £3.95
Poems and short stories by four young Arab authors celebrating their tour of the UK August 2006 with Banipal Live, a partnership of Banipal magazine with the British Council and The Reading Agency.
Paperback • 222pp • £8.99 • $15
Short Stories from North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia
Includes new works by authors well-known in the West – Tayeb Salih from Sudan, Mohamed Choukri from Morocco
Read more...Paperback • 288 pages • £9.99 • $15
Enthralling and timely saga, set in a small Lebanese village, of a young family's attempt to thwart the onset of civil war
Read more...Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way
by Tayeb Salih
The Mariner
by Taleb Alrefai
Goat Mountain
by Habib Selmi
A Boat to Lesbos
by Nouri Al-Jarrah
An Iraqi In Paris
by Samuel Shimon
Knife Sharpener
by Sargon Boulus
Heavenly Life
by Ramsey Nasr
Shepherd of Solitude
by Amjad Nasser
Mordechai's Moustache and his Wife's Cats, and other stories
by Mahmoud Shukair
A Retired Gentleman, and other stories
by Issa J Boullata
Unbuttoning the Violin
by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Joumana Haddad, Ala Hlehel, Abed Ismael
Sardines and Oranges
by Tayeb Salih and 20 other North African authors
The Myrtle Tree
by Jad El Hage