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  • Sa'iba

    by Alis al-Bustani ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Let us go on, then! And I will tell you the story of my sister and her daughter, from beginning to end.' Alis al-Bustani's Sa'iba (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic by a female writer. Written when the Arabic novel was only in its third or fourth decade, it takes up the leading fictional theme of the era: the question of young people's choices in marriage in a society ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Trees Are Walking in Alexandria

    A Novel

    by Alaa Al Aswany ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    A deeply compassionate portrait of a cosmopolitan group of friends—a glimpse of the volatility of life under totalitarian rule, from Egypt's most celebrated contemporary novelist.It is 1964 in Alexandria. Nasser has risen to power and, faced with the upheaval of his regime, many Alexandrians fled Egypt. But this particular group of locals and European expats have instead chosen to stay. They ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz

    Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt

    by Marilyn Booth ...
    Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social difference to the Arabic knowledge movement then, or Nahda. Fawwaz published essays and engaged in debates in the Egyptian and ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces

    Writing Feminist History through Biography in Fin-de-siecle Egypt

    by Marilyn Booth ...

    $108.79 USD

  • Voices of the Lost

    A Novel

    by Hoda Barakat ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel weaves together a series of devastating confessions about life in contemporary Arab societyThis profound and disturbing novel by acclaimed Lebanese author Hoda Barakat tells the story of characters living on the periphery, battling with poverty, and fighting their own demons.Set in an unnamed, war-torn country, the novel consists of ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Girls of Riyadh

    by Rajaa Alsanea ...
    Translated by Rajaa Alsanea, Marilyn Booth ...
    “Alsanea's wisdom and insight into the female experience seem surreal. She captures the core, universal truths of the complications in finding and holding a life partner. Her characters provide wisdom to each other that are astounding in their accuracy, and Alsanea thus speaks for countless women everywhere.” —Bookreporter.comWhen Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Honey Hunger

    A Novel

    by Zahran Alqasmi ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    WINNER OF THE 2025 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC LITERARY TRANSLATION"An evocative, unpredictable novel."—Words Without BordersA breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hopeAzzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild hives, he encounters Thamna, a lone shepherd woman, on a mountain slope and is captivated by ... Read more

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    The Trees Are Walking in Alexandria

    A Novel

    by Alaa Al Aswany ...

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    A deeply compassionate portrait of a cosmopolitan group of friends—a glimpse of the volatility of life under totalitarian rule, from Egypt's most celebrated contemporary novelist.It is 1964 in Alexandria. Nasser has risen to power and, faced with the upheaval of his regime, many Alexandrians fled Egypt. But this particular group of locals and European expats have instead chosen to stay. They ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

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  • Celestial Bodies

    by Jokha Alharthi ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review).In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Open Door

    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    by Latifa al-Zayyat ...
    Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for LiteratureA Top 100 Literary Work of the Twentieth Century (The Arab Writers Union)"Absorbing . . . Superbly translated . . . . Arguably the best modern [Egyptian] novel not written by Nobel laureate Mahfouz."—Kirkus ReviewsA landmark in women's writing set during the struggle for Egyptian independenceFebruary 1946: Cairo is engulfed by demonst... ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silken Gazelles

    A Novel

    by Jokha Alharthi ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    **“In Alharthi’s world, it’s not only the future that holds promise; the past has possibility and opportunities for revision, too." —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Celestial Bodies and Bitter Orange Tree, a new novel about two Omani women whose unbreakable connection is forged as nursing sisters—a bond considered akin to that of a birth sibling* ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Bitter Orange Tree

    A Novel

    by Jokha Alharthi ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    **Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardA TIME Best Book of the YearA New Yorker Best Book of the YearAn extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her from a “remarkable” writer who has “constructed her own novelistic form” (James Wood, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD