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9781479882342 | Library of Arabic Literature, July 12, 2016, cover price $40.00
Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nassim, now married to his former love Hind, and old friends from the leftist political circles within which he once roamed under the nom de guerre Sinalcol. By the end of his six-month stay, he has been reintroduced to the chaos of cultural, religious and political battles that continue to rage in Lebanon. Overwhelmed by the experiences of his return, Karim is forced to contemplate his identity and his place in Lebanon's history. The story of Karim and his family is born of other stories that intertwine to form an imposing fresco of Lebanese society over the past fifty years. Broken Mirrors examines the roots of an endemic civil war and a country's unsettled past.
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9781848667723, titled "The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol" | Gardners Books, February 11, 2016, cover price $16.35
9780914671299 | Archipelago Books, February 9, 2016, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France.
Product Description: In British-occupied Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 revolution, respected landowner Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen on hard times. Bankrupt, he moves his family to Cairo and takes a menial job at the Automobile Club, a luxurious lodge for its European members, where Egyptians appear only as fearful servants...read more
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9780307957214 | Italian edition edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 18, 2015), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From the most popular Egyptian novelist of his generation (âa suitable heir to the mantle worn by Naguib Mahfouzâ âThe Guardian), a rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in postâWorld War II Cairo.
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9780307947314 | Vintage Books, July 12, 2016, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In British-occupied Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 revolution, respected landowner Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen on hard times.
9780857862204 | Canongate Books Ltd, January 7, 2016, cover price $24.65 | also contains The Automobile Club of Egypt | About this edition: Abd el-Aziz, formerly a landowner but now in the grips of extreme poverty, moves his family to Cairo and takes on menial work in the storeroom of The Automobile Club.
Product Description: Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of âthe Fariyaq,â alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England, and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, womenâs rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures, all the while celebrating the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language...read more
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9781479800728 | Library of Arabic Literature, October 15, 2015, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of âthe Fariyaq,â alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world.
Product Description: Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of âthe Fariyaq,â alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England, and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, womenâs rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures, all the while celebrating the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language...read more
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9781479813292 | Library of Arabic Literature, October 15, 2015, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of âthe Fariyaq,â alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world.
Product Description: Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of âthe Fariyaq,â alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, womenâs rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures...read more
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9781479897544 | Library of Arabic Literature, June 6, 2014, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of âthe Fariyaq,â alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world.
Product Description: This collection of fourteen connected stories and a novella, From the Secret History of Numan Abdel Hafez, takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village of Dayrut al-Sharif, in which Mohamed Mustagab was born. To depict a world renowned for its poverty, ignorance, vendettas, and implacable code of honor, Mustagab deploys the black humor and Swiftian sarcasm of the insider who knows his society only too well...read more
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9789774167072 | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This collection of fourteen connected stories and a novella, From the Secret History of Numan Abdel Hafez, takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village of Dayrut al-Sharif, in which Mohamed Mustagab was born.
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9781479842247, titled "Leg over Leg: Or the Turtle in the Tree Concerning the Fariyaq; What Manner of Creature Might He Be" | Bilingual edition (Library of Arabic Literature, June 6, 2014), cover price $40.00
9781479875757 | Bilingual edition (Library of Arabic Literature, June 6, 2014), cover price $40.00
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9789774166266 | Reprint edition (Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, June 30, 2014), cover price $17.95
Product Description: This paperback compendium edition combines Naguib Mahfouz's first three novels, all set in ancient Egypt, which skillfully explore recurring themes within human relationships: the balance between destiny and individual agency, the sanctity of the bonds to the land and religion, and the constant power struggles that affect human lives at multiple levels...read more
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9789774166297 | Gardners Books, October 30, 2013, cover price $26.70 | About this edition: This paperback compendium edition combines Naguib Mahfouz's first three novels, all set in ancient Egypt, which skillfully explore recurring themes within human relationships: the balance between destiny and individual agency, the sanctity of the bonds to the land and religion, and the constant power struggles that affect human lives at multiple levels.
Product Description: Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank...read more
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9789774166013 | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, October 15, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank.
Product Description: This lexicon complements the critical edition (OLA 141) and translation (OLA 166) of Yusuf al-Shirbini's celebrated portrait of Egyptian rural society in the seventeenth century, Hazz al-Quhuf bi-Sharh Abi Shaduf (Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded), a work that, with some six thousand words of contextualized colloquial Egyptian Arabic, also constitutes a unique pre-nineteenth-century source for the study of that dialect...read more
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9789042926967 | Bilingual edition (Peeters Bvba, September 16, 2013), cover price $114.00 | About this edition: This lexicon complements the critical edition (OLA 141) and translation (OLA 166) of Yusuf al-Shirbini's celebrated portrait of Egyptian rural society in the seventeenth century, Hazz al-Quhuf bi-Sharh Abi Shaduf (Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded), a work that, with some six thousand words of contextualized colloquial Egyptian Arabic, also constitutes a unique pre-nineteenth-century source for the study of that dialect.
Hardcover:
9780814769843 | Bilingual edition (Library of Arabic Literature, August 23, 2013), cover price $40.00
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9780814729373 | Bilingual edition (Library of Arabic Literature, August 23, 2013), cover price $40.00
Product Description: Though Egypt was ruled by Turkish-speakers through most of the period from the ninth century until 1952, the impact of Turkish culture there remains under-studied. This book deals with the period from 1805 to 1952, during which Turkish cultural patterns, spread through reforms based on those of Istanbul, may have touched more Egyptians than ever before...read more
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9789774163975 | Hardcover with CD edition (Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, May 15, 2012), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Though Egypt was ruled by Turkish-speakers through most of the period from the ninth century until 1952, the impact of Turkish culture there remains under-studied.
Hardcover:
9789774164835 | Reprint edition (Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, December 15, 2011), cover price $24.95
Hardcover:
9789774165030, titled "Naguib Mahfouz Centennial Library: Celebrating One Hundred Years of Egypt's Nobel Laureate" | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, December 15, 2011, cover price $600.00
Product Description: In Re:viewing Egypt, Xavier Royâs breathtaking photographs of Egypt offer us a haunting vision of a country and its people. They are also a lesson in the art of photography itself, inviting us to experience images as metaphor, to extend our notions of reality...read more
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9789774162954 | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, September 15, 2010, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In Re:viewing Egypt, Xavier Royâs breathtaking photographs of Egypt offer us a haunting vision of a country and its people.
Product Description: In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as "strong Muslims," his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities...read more
Hardcover:
9789774162947 | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, December 15, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt.
Paperback:
9780007306008 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, May 18, 2009, cover price $17.00
Product Description: "The millennial generation's most celebrated literary achievement." Al-Ahram Weekly "The first glimmer of hope for a true fictional renaissance an instantly rewarding read embraced by an unprecedented range of literary figures" The Daily Star "What is madness?" asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy's jittery, funny, and angry novel...read more
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9781906697051 | Gardners Books, October 29, 2008, cover price $11.80 | About this edition: "The millennial generation's most celebrated literary achievement.
Product Description: The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century...read more
Hardcover:
9789774161278 | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, March 15, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century.
Hardcover:
9789774161049, titled "Black Magic: A Modern Arabic Novel" | Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, October 30, 2007, cover price $18.95
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