Product Description: Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals. Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapters, Isma tells her own story in the first person, and then Hajila's in the second person...read more

Product Description: In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience...read more

Tanios, the illegitimate son of a powerful Sheik, becomes caught up in the political intrigues of the Middle East

Product Description: Book by Lemsine, Aicha

A novel about the life of Mani, a third-century Persian mystic, whose dualistic religious philosophy, Manichaeism, was destroyed by religious enemies who persecuted its believers and burned its texts after Mani was betrayed by the heir of the ruler who had been his protector (view table of contents)