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  • Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition

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

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  • Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology

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    Geert Jan van GelderPaperback, 496 pages9780814738269   A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Ara...

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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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  • Kalilah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

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

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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 ShamsieHardback, 336 pages9781526647702   Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unk...

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  • All My Rage

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    Sabaa TahirPaperback, 384 pages9780349125268 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 PB

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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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  • Once Upon A Place: 8 Singaporean Memoirs

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

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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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  • La Taqlaq, Do Not Worry

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

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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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