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  • The Committee

    A Novel

    by Sonallah Ibrahim ...
    Translated by The Committee Mary St. Germain, The Committee Charlene Constable ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    This wry take on Kafka’s novel The Trial revolves around its narrator’s attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his country, known simply as "the Committee." Consequences for his actions range from the absurd to the hideous.Ibrahim offers an unbroken first-person narrative rendered in brief, crisp prose framed by a conspicuous absence of vivid imagery. Furthermore, the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • That Smell and Notes from Prison

    by Sonallah Ibrahim ...
    Translated by Robyn Creswell ...
    That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential Arabic novels. Composed in the wake of a five-year prison sentence, the semi-autobiographical story follows a recently released political prisoner as he wanders through Cairo, adrift in his native city.That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential novels written in Arabic ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Warda

    A Novel

    by Sonallah Ibrahim ...
    Translated by Hosam Aboul-Ela ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Sonallah Ibrahim’s 2000 masterpiece offers readers a view of twentieth-century world events through the diary pages of his titular character1950s Cairo: the intersection of conflicting dreams and political destinies. In this classic novel translated for the first time into English, idealistic reporter Rushdy encounters the enchanting Warda at a clandestine leftist meeting. Their fates would be ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 1970

    The Last Days

    by Sonallah Ibrahim ...
    Translated by Eleanor Ellis ...
    Series series The Arab List
    A riveting novel that is both an indictment and an elegy, a second-person memoir of Nasser’s final months in the voice of his former prisoner.In 1959, at the age of twenty-two, Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim was imprisoned by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s regime. Over the following five years in prison in Egypt’s Western Desert, Ibrahim kept diaries that he smuggled out on cigarette papers.In this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Stealth

    by Sonallah Ibrahim ...
    Translated by Hosam Aboul-Ela ...
    A young son wanders Cairo trying to comprehend why his mother has disappearedSet in the turbulent years before the 1952 revolution that would overthrow King Farouk and bring Gamal Abdel Nasser to power, Stealth — by Sonallah Ibrahim, one of Egypt’s most respected and uncompromising novelists — is a gripping story seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy. A young Egyptian’s coming of age ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • Out of Place

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  • Soldiers of God

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    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
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  • A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories

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    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

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