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  • My Road from Damascus

    A Memoir

    by Jamal Saeed ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Stone Serpent

    Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved

    by Nouri al-Jarrah ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah brings to life a story that can never again be lost in time after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone fired his imagination. This inspiring epic poem awakens two extraordinary lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina, the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrian's Wall for eighteen centuries, and tells their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Way Back

    A Modern Arabic Novel

    by Fuad al-Takarli ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    The Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. Through exquisite layering of the overlapping worlds of the characters, their private conflicts and passions are set against the wider drama of events leading up to the overthrow of prime minister Abd al-Karim Qasim and the initial steps to power of the Baath party ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Arab Poetics

    by Adonis ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    Poetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book, one of the foremost Arab poets reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry, as well as the relationship between Arabic poetry and the Qur'an, and between poetry and thought. Adonis also assesses the challenges of modernism and the impact of western culture on the Arab poetic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Yusuf Idris

    Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story

    by Yusuf Idris ...
    Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, Wadida Wassef, Roger Allen, R. Neil Hewison, Mona Mikhail, Catherine Cobham, Ragia Fahmi, Saneya Shaarawi, Christopher Tingley0 ...
    Series series Great Egyptian Writers
    The only fiction collection available in English translation by the Arab world's greatest short-story writer of the twentieth centuryYusuf Idris (1927–91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests were in politics and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories

    Edited by Sabry Hafez, Catherine Cobham ...
    This reader consists of the full Arabic texts of eleven short stories by established Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian and Jordanian writers. The earliest story, written in 1929, is by the Egyptian Mahmud Tahir Lashin; and the most recent, written in 1972, is by the Iraqi writer, Fu'ad Al-Takarli. Each story is supplemented by an introduction, with biographical information about the author, placing him in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A River Dies of Thirst

    by Mahmoud Darwish ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    "Darwish is the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people . . . lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate, and elegant—and never anything less than free—what he would dream for all his people." — Naomi Shihab Nye"Catherine Cobham's translations sway delicately between mystery and clarity, giving a rendition of the master's voice that should impress both those reading Darwish ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    My Road from Damascus

    A Memoir

    by Jamal Saeed ...
    Narrated by Pasha Ebrahimi ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 33 min

    An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the BonesJamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    I Am Still With You

    A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History

    by Emmanuel Iduma ...
    Narrated by Emeka Emecheta ...

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    “Powerful and transcendent" —Chigozie Obioma"Both epic and intimate" —Margo JeffersonA deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author’s homeland of Nigeria, in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him, his family, and a nationIn inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize Emmanuel Iduma tells the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Gray Areas

    How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

    by Adia Harvey Wingfield ...
    Narrated by Lynnette R. Freeman ...

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    A leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today’s multi-billion-dollar diversity industry—and provides actional solutions for creating a truly equitable, multiracial future.Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to advancement and mobility—ignored and ... Read more

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    Redeeming Justice

    From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System

    by Jarrett Adams ...
    Narrated by Jarrett Adams ...

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    **“A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”—SCOTT TUROW“A daring act of justified defiance.”—SHAKA SENGHOR“Nothing less than heroic.”—JOHN GRISHAMHe was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal ... Read more

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    A Darker Shade of Blue

    A Police Officer's Memoir

    by Keith Merith ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

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    11 hours 14 min

    When sixteen-year-old Keith Merith finds himself pulled over, berated, and degraded by a white police officer, he's outraged. He's done nothing wrong. But the officer has the power, and he doesn't. From that day on, he vows to join a police service and effect change from within.Twelve years and a multitude of infuriating applications later, Merith is finally hired by York Regional Police. ... Read more

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