Literary collections / Middle Eastern

The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

by Denys Johnson-Davies

This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south.

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Cinnamon

by Samar Yazbek & Emily Danby

A fast-paced novel, coupling intense drama with insight, Cinnamon portrays the lives of Damascene women, rich and poor.

Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation and Communication

by Stephane A. Dudoignon, Komatsu Hisao & Kosugi Yasushi

Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century....

Islam and the Securitisation of Population Policies: Muslim States and Sustainability

by Katrina Riddell

Recognizing the role of population policies in security issues, Katrina Riddell's study takes the examples of Pakistan and Iran to examine population growth as an international security issue and to understand...

Anglophone Indian Women Writers, 1870-1920

by Ellen Brinks

Brinks examines the work of Toru Dutt, Krupabai Satthianadhan, Pandita Ramabai, Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu. These women are deeply rooted and connected to both South Asian and Western cultures who found...

Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature

by Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi & Andrew Rippin

This definitive sourcebook presents more than sixty authoritative new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by three leading specialists, Classical Islam features eight thematically-linked...

Hikayat: Short Stories by Lebanese Women

by Roseanne Saad Khalaf

From Lebanon's golden age, through years of civil conflict and its aftermath, these women offer a captivating portrait of a country in flux. Well-known authors such as Emily Nasarallah, Hanan al-Shaykh and Alawiya...

Israel: An Echo of Eternity

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Israel: An Echo of Eternity is Dr. Heschel's book about the past, present, and future home of the Jews.  According to Dr. Heschel the presence of Israel has tremendous historical and religious significance...

The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat & Naveed Noori

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but...

THE BAHA'IS OF IRAN

by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw & Seena B. Fazel

The Baha'i community of Iran is the country's largest non-Muslim religious minority. This collection of essays presents a comprehensive study of the social and historical development of the Baha'i community,...

Book of the Edge

by Ece Temelkuran & Deniz Perin

The first US poetry translation of an award-winning younger Turkish poet and controversial investigative journalist.

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries

by Suad Amiry

Based on diaries and e-mail correspondence that architect Suad Amiry kept from 1981 to 2004, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law evokes the frustrations, cabin fever, and downright misery of daily life in the West Bank...

Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature

by Robert Irwin

The first collection of poetry and prose from a rich and all too unfamiliar literary tradition.

Spanning the fifth to the sixteenthcenturies, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night and Horses and the Desert includes...