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  • Contemporary Plays from Iraq

    Volume II

    by Jawad al-Assadi, Muhaned Al Hadi, Abdul Razaq al-Rubai, Nahedh AlRamadhani, Ali Abdel-Nabi Al-Zaidi, Faten Altaee, Atyaf Rashid, Amir Al-Azraki, Khazal Al-Majidi2, Mithal Ghazi3, Mr Ali Al-Abadi4 ...
    Translated by Jeffery P. Casey, Amir Al-Azraki1 ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Eleven plays that respond to the aftermath of the American-led invasion, providing a window into Iraq's cultural and theatrical landscape during a time of profound change.Standing as a testament to Iraq's enduring spirit and its deep-rooted tradition of political theatre, this volumeexpands on the previous instalment, showcasing the themes and dramatic styles that help define the country's art ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

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  • The Book of Disappearance

    A Novel

    Translated by Sinan Antoon ...
    by Ibtisam Azem ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who ... Read more

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  • A Land Twice Promised

    An Israeli Woman's Quest for Peace

    by Noa Baum ...
    An Israeli woman writes about growing up amid war and ancestral trauma and later building a friendship with a Palestinian woman in America.Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the '60s, '70s, and '80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

    Poems from Gaza

    by Mosab Abu Toha ...
    Winner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist“Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty."—The New York TimesIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza, first as a ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Clothesline Swing

    by Ahmad Danny Ramadan ...
    The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally, the hope of a new home in Canada.Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, The Clothesline Swing tells ... Read more

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  • Rifqa

    by Mohammed El-Kurd ...
    Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience.With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa’s exile from Haifa to his family’s current ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Lady from Tel Aviv

    Translated by Elliott Colla ...
    by Raba'I Al-Madhoun ...
    Series series Saqi Bookshelf
    WINNER OF THE ENGLISH PEN AWARD Walid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to embracing his mother and reconnecting with the people and place he once left behind. Boarding the flight from London, Walid's life intersects with that of Dana, an Israeli actress, on her way back to Tel Aviv. As the night sky hurtles past, what each confides and ... Read more

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  • The Corpse Washer

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad’s Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father’s wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Pieces

    by Donya Abu Sitta ...
    "Pieces" is a never-ending story, one that cannot be erased from memory. It is the cry of Gaza that still echoes between the walls of demolished houses, the pain of Jerusalem that refuses to subside, and the longing of Jaffa that will not die."Pieces" is a written testimony of pain, loss, and unwavering resilience. Through its poems, it tells the tragedies of the war of extermination in Gaza, but ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • The Yellow Wind

    by David Grossman ...
    Translated by Haim Watzman ...
    "A brilliant, searing examination of Israel's occupation of the West Bank . . . beautiful, passionate, and profoundly disturbing" ( Chicago Tribune ).The Israeli novelist David Grossman's impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987—not only the misery of the Palestinian refugees and their deep-seated hatred of the Israelis, but also the cost of occupation for both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Book of Ramallah

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Liana Badr, Anas Abu Rahma, Ahlam Bsharat, Ameer Hamad, Khaled Hourani, Ahmad Jaber, Ziad Khadash, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Mahmoud Shukair ...
    Series series Reading the City
    A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, until eventually he just tells the city itself...A teenager is ordered off a bus at a checkpoint and told he must kiss a complete stranger if he wants the bus to be let through...A woman pilgrimages to the Cave of the Prophets, to pray for rain for her tiny patch of land, knowing it will take more than water to save it.. ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Shatila Stories

    by Samih Mahmoud, Omar Khaled Ahmad, Hiba Mareb, Safa Khaled Algharbawi, Nibal Alalo, Rayan Mohamad Sukkar, Omar Abdellatif Alndaf, Fatima Omar Ghazawi, Safiya Badran ...
    Translated by Nashwa Gwanlock ...
    Most novels are written by professional writers using second hand material. Not this one. Peirene commissioned nine refugees to tell their 'Shatila Stories'. The result is a piece of collaborative fiction unlike any other. If you want to understand the chaos of the Middle East – or you just want to follow the course of a beautiful love story – start here.Adam and his family flee Syria and arrive ... Read more

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