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  • The Passerby

    by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid ...
    From acclaimed Egyptian literary master Ibrahim Abdel Meguid comes The Passerby—a profoundly moving and fiercely relevant novel that navigates the perilous intersections of identity, societal expectation, and state oppression.Set against the backdrop of a highly conservative modern Cairo, the narrative follows an eighteen-year-old university student grappling with profound gender dysphoria. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clouds over Alexandria

    A Novel

    by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid ...
    Translated by Kay Heikkinen ...
    Series series
    In the 1970s, once-cosmopolitan Alexandria was at the forefront of the clash between Nasser’s socialist-era principles and the burgeoning fundamentalist movement. Five idealistic students find themselves caught up in this tangled web, as their leftist activism makes them a target both from government surveillance and the Islamist groups seeking to curtail the city’s social life. The group of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Queue

    by Basma Abdel Aziz ...
    Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette ...
    **“Weird and wild.” —BookRiot“An effective critique of authoritarianism.” —NPR“Equal parts dystopia, satire, and allegory.—Los Angeles Review of BooksSet against the backdrop of a failed political uprising in Egypt, this chilling debut evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring.**In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Coming of Age in the War on Terror

    by Randa Abdel-Fattah ...
    'One minute you're a 15-year-old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.' We now have a generation—Muslim and non-Muslim—who has grown up only knowing a world at war on terror, and who has been socialised in a climate of widespread Islamophobia, surveillance, and suspicion. In Coming of Age in the War on Terror, award-winning writer Randa Abdel-Fattah ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Qur'an

    by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem ...
    The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching. Recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, it has nevertheless remained difficult to understand in its English translations. This new translation is written in a contemporary idiom that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Upside

    A Memoir (Movie Tie-In Edition)

    by Abdel Sellou ...
    You Saved My Life tells the extraordinary true story of the charming Algerian con-man whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat inspired the record-breaking hit film, The Intouchables (the American remake starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston coming in 2018).Sellou's fictional reincarnation, Driss, played to critical acclaim by French comedian Omar Sy in the movie Les Intouchables, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Understanding the Qur'an

    Themes and Style

    by Muhammad Abdel Haleem ...
    Series series London Qur'an Studies
    The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important new introduction, Muhammad Haleem examines its recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and divorce, peace and war, water and nourishment - and for the first time sets these in the context of the Qur'an's linguistic style. Professor Haleem examines the background to the development of the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Between Two Moons

    A Novel

    by Aisha Abdel Gawad ...
    **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE, THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, & THE BROOKYLN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE • Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan, "a moving look at family, survival, and celebration" (Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America)."Breathtaking.” —New York Times Book Review"A ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • No Sex in the City

    by Randa Abdel-Fattah ...
    It is a truth universally acknowledged . . . Esma is a modern Muslim woman with an age-old dilemma. She is well-educated, well-travelled and has excellent taste in music, but the hunt for Mr Right leads her to a number of Mr Wrongs. Together with wild-haired Ruby, principled Lisa, and drop-dead gorgeous Nirvana, Esma forms the No Sex in the City Club. Her quest for The One (or Mr Almost-Perfect) ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Qur'an

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching. Recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, it has nevertheless remained difficult to understand in its English translations. This new translation is written in a contemporary idiom that ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Qur'an

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a sacred text and a book of guidance, that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of the ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Capital Rules

    The Construction of Global Finance

    by Rawi Abdelal ...
    "The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that this was not always the case. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD