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“fadia faqir”

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  • Golden Chariot

    by Fadia Faqir ...
    From her prison cell in Cairo, Aziza decides to create a golden chariot to take her and fellow prisoners to heaven, where their dreams can be fulfilled. Aziza's narrative holds together the stories of the other women and their crimes as they yearn for a better life, but cannot realize these dreams. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the House of Silence

    by Fadia Faqir ...
    To complement the novels in the "Arab Women Writers" series, this is a collection of autobiographical writings by 13 leading Arab women authors. Through these testimonies, the women describe their experiences and expose the often difficult conditions under which their narratives were written. Patterns running throughout include experiences of confinement, subjugation, the struggle for education ... Read more

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  • The Cairo Trilogy

    Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, Angele Botros Semaan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt—Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street—together in one volume.The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Palace Walk

    The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Series Book 1 - The Cairo Trilogy
    Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Journey from the Land of No

    A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

    by Roya Hakakian ...
    An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran“An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold BloomRoya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • One Thousand and One Nights

    A Retelling

    Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. They are related by the beautiful, wise, young Shahrazad, who gives herself up to murderous King ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Midaq Alley

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Quarter

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by Roger Allen ...
    Series series Saqi Bookshelf
    Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This ... Read more

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  • The President's Gardens

    by Muhsin Al-Ramli ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting".Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ.On the third day of Ramadan, the villa... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Honour Killing

    Stories of Men Who Killed

    by Ayse Onal ...
    Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result is a revealing and ultimately tragic account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers' - in a country where state and religion conspire to ... Read more

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  • The Baghdad Clock

    Winner of the Edinburgh First Book Award

    by Shahad Al Rawi ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018This number one best-selling title in Iraq, Dubai, and the UAE is a heart-rending tale of two girls growing up in war-torn BaghdadBaghdad, 1991. The Gulf War is raging. Two girls, hiding in an air raid shelter, tell stories to keep the fear and the darkness at bay, and a deep friendship is born. But as the bombs continue to fall and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Arabian Nights and Days

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs ... Read more

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