Literary Arts

Sonallah IbrahimHardback, 200 pages9780857429803   A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of...

Hussein BarghouthiHardback, 154 pages9780857428967   A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the...

Marmaduke PickthallPaperback9781912356058   Oriental Encounters is the best introduction to Pickthall’s work, a fictionalised account of his experi...

Vivy YusofHardback, 224 pages9789815058802   At the age of thirty-four, I've built a nine-figure fashion company, garnered 1.8 million followers on...

Sarah MalikHardback, 168 pages9781741177763   Safar is the Urdu and Arabic word for 'journey', which provides the perfect title for this beautifull...

Khaled Hosseini Paperback 9781526604743   Amir and Hassan grow up together in Kabul. Amir in the beautiful house his father built, filled with marb...

al-Mayidi ibn Zahir Marcel Kurpershoek (translation)Hardback, 400 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479806577   Poems and tales of a literar...

Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Hardback, 128 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479877928   Written in mid-sevent...

Ibn al-MuqaffaʿMichael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery (translation)Hardback, 300 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479806539   Timeless fable...

Ahmad Ibn Fadlan James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 108 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899890   The earliest surviving instance of sustai...

Abu Zayd al-SirafiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 124 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479830596   The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed...

Muhammad al-MuwaylihiRoger Allen (translation)Paperback, 524 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840915   Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cair...

Hanna DiyabElias Muhanna (translation)Paperback, 468 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820016   The adventures of the man who created Aladdin   The B...

Yusuf al-Shirbini and Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 380 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479829668   Satires of...

Yusuf al-ShirbiniHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 320 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840212   Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt   W...

Hmedan al-Shewe'irMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 206 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479885169   Satirical verse on society and its hypocr...

Kamila ShamsiePaperback, 336 pages9781526647719   Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the un...

Sabaa TahirPaperback, 384 pages9780349125268 Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged mat...

Nadia WassefPaperback, 240 pages9781472156853   The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled bet...

Zoulfa KatouhPaperback, 448 pages9781526648549 New Paperback edition with new short story included   'Hauntingly beautiful ... a must read' - Huda ...

Foreword by Verena Tay Paperback, 128 pages9789811844829   Contributions byKOH Gek Ling EmilyLEE Tzu Pheng AnneLEE Seow SerNG Sok Huang CharleneOON...

Al-HaririMichael Cooperson (translation)Paperback, 542 pages9781479810567   Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award   Fifty rogue’s tales translated f...

Karina Robles BahrinPaperback, 232 pages9789814984676   Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix, her family's billion-ringgit company kno...

Mohamedou Ould SlahiPaperback, 176 pages9780821424384   An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the un...

The Vespa Rider Paperback 9789811138133   This is the Vespa Rider's sophomore collection of poems.

Kamila ShamsiePaperback, 288 pages9781408886793   Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Khairun Atika KamsanPaperback, 240 pages9789811845574   Anaya Elias is always composed, wise and calm. The compassionate and reliable preschool tea...

WardatulninaPaperback9789811148347   Two primary school friends, Zakaria and Hafeza,  meet again as young teenagers in a madrasah. This is the stor...

Isa KamariPaperback, 112 pages9789815044355   We live in a fragmented world that has caused alienation of our lives in many spheres and at multiple...

Orhan Pamuk Paperback 9780571268832

Leo TolstoyPaperback, 224 pages9781847494818   Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against ...

Alaa Aswany Paperback 9780857862211   Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff atten...

Abolqasem Ferdowsi Dick Davis (translation) Paperback 9780143108320

Suratman Markasan Paperback 9789810735357

Norhafsah HamidPaperback9789672459361   The heart will find solace... when it learns to let go. Hassan sat down next to his mom and dad as he stare...

Ayisha MalikPaperback, 176 pages9781472284570   Sofia Khan is going about everything the wrong way. At least, that's what her mother, Mehnaz, think...