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Risible Rhymes

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

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Mission to the Volga

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

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Accounts of China and India

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

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What Isa ibn Hisham Told Us or A Period of Time

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

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The Book of Travels

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

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Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded Vol. Two

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

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Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded Vol. One

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

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Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

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

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Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

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ʿAbdallāh ibn SbayyilMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 328 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804405   Scenes from Arabian life at the turn o...

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Best of Friends

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

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A Hope Worth Having

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Lydiawati MZ Paperback, 264 pages 9789811852015   When Lydiawati Mz caught her son, Muaz, standing enthralled in front of a restaurant kitchen by t...

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All My Rage

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Sabaa TahirPaperback, 384 pages9780593202364 Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged mat...

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Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller PB

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

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You Can't Stop The Sun From Shining PB

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Sonny Bill WilliamsPaperback, 336 pages9781529387889 In this powerful, open and honest memoir, Sonny Bill shares the triumphs and missteps of his e...

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As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow

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

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Impostures

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

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The Accidental Malay

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

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The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga

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

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Home Fire

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

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Lyrics Alley

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Leila Aboulela Paperback 9780753828113

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My Name Is Red

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Orhan Pamuk Paperback 9780571268832

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Hadji Murat

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

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Automobile Club of Egypt

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

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Gate of the Sun

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Elias Khoury Paperback 9780099461593

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