Narratives

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

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

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...

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

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

Sabaa TahirPaperback, 384 pages9780593202364 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...

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

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

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...

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

Leila Aboulela Paperback 9780753828113

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...

Elias Khoury Paperback 9780099461593

Mohamed Choukri Paperback 9781846590108