Poems of Alexandria and New York

Paperback  •  ebook  •  126pp

Ahmed Morsi’s first volume in English translation captures the modernity and empathy at the heart of all his works, his surrealistic humour, and his visions of the dramas of ordinary life.

Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way

Paperback • eBook • 184pp

"A flavourful and entertaining memoir of his friendship with a shape-shifting, rule-breaking character" – Boyd Tonkin

The Mariner

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.

Goat Mountain

Paperback • eBook • 92pp
Both formats available now

"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

A Boat to Lesbos

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.

An Iraqi In Paris

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’.

Knife Sharpener

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.

Heavenly Life

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

Shepherd of Solitude

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.

Mordechai's Moustache and his Wife's Cats, and other stories

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.

A Retired Gentleman, and other stories

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 . . .

Unbuttoning the Violin

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.

Sardines and Oranges

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

The Myrtle Tree

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