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1	Palace Walk more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz The first volume in Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy looks into the lives of the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad, a merchant who forces his family to follow strict religious rules while he follows his desires, sampling the alluring nightlife of the city. see all copies from £3.58! new only from £10.23! \| first editions
2	Midaq Alley more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz Centred around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo: Kirsha, the cafe-owner with a scandalous predilection for young boys, Hamida, the matchmaker's daughter, and Zaita, the cripple-maker - who maims and disfigures people who wish to become beggars. see all copies from £2.52! new only from £6.15! \| first editions
3	Season of Migration to the North more books like this by Tayeb Salih see all copies from £8.87! new only from £9.52! \| first editions
4	Palace of Desire more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz The second part of "The Cairo Trilogy" by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a true-life Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous, belching, self-adoring patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family in domestic turmoil, with feuding in-laws. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £7.68! \| first editions
5	Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories more books like this by Ghassan Kanafani Though they chronicle life in a country that has witnessed extraordinary and often violent political, economic, and cultural change, the works are striking in their light and intimate tone. They include personal reminiscences of childhood, travel essays, and observations of village life and custom. Among the most prominent of the featured authors ... see all copies from £11.09! new only from £12.95!
6	Arabian Nights and Days more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz see all copies from £7.00! new only from £10.09! \| first editions
7	Sugar Street more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz see all copies from £3.26! new only from £8.66! \| first editions
8	Palace walk more books like this by Najib Mahfuz This is a sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his ... see all copies from £1.96! new only from £7.82!
9	Beirut blues more books like this by Hanan al-Shaykh Asmahan, a young Lebanese woman, writes a series of letters in an attempt to make sense of her life and the war in Beirut, and to preserve her images of the pre-war city. see all copies from £3.02! new only from £8.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction more books like this by Denys Johnson-Davies (Editor) This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south. Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said "the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time," this treasury of Arab voices is ... see all copies from £8.40! new only from £10.63! \| first editions
11 view cover	Harafish more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz Written by a Nobel Prize-winner, this is a mythic tale with a modern, soap-opera-like plot, featuring the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family. It displays the weaknesses of the human character - pride, dishonesty, lust, greed - and of the greatness we are capable of when we overcome them. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £8.88! \| first editions
12 view cover	Voices of Change: Short Stories by Saudi Arabian Women Writers more books like this by Abu Bakr Bagader This anthology consists of a selection of works from the last three decades of women's writing in Saudi Arabia. They offer a rare insight into the traditional and changing roles, relationships and expectations of women in a patriarchal society. see all copies from £10.59! new only from £16.33! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Wedding of Zein & Other Stories more books like this by Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Tayeb Salih, Al-Tayyib Salih see all copies from £9.56! new only from £15.96!
14	Men in the Sun more books like this by Ghassan Kanafani, Hilary Kilpatrick (Translator) see all copies from £9.37! new only from £54.78! \| first editions
15 view cover	Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories more books like this by Dalya Cohen-Mor (Editor) Consisting of sixty short stories by forty women writers from across the Arab world, this collection opens numerous windows onto Arab culture and society and offers keen sights into what Arab women feel and think. The stories deal not only with feminist issues but also with topics of a social, cultural, and political nature. Different styles and ... see all copies from £14.99! new only from £21.14!
16 view cover	Women and the War Story more books like this by Miriam Cooke In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how alternatives to the master narrative challenge ... see all copies from £9.53! new only from £28.00!
17 view cover	Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World more books like this by Denys Johnson-Davies (Selected by) see all copies from £7.87! new only from £12.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology more books like this by Professor Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Editor) Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to the personal and historical experiences of modern Arabs. This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The ... see all copies from £21.82! new only from £23.33!
19 view cover	The Modern Arabic Short Story: Shahrazad Returns more books like this by Mohammed Shaheen, Muhammad Shahin This fully revised second edition of The Modern Arabic Short Story is a unique anthology offering English translations of previously unavailable Arabic texts. Each story has been beautifully translated and carefully collected in this unique updated edition. The Modern Arabic Short Story provides a valuable introduction and overview of this ... see all copies from £20.09!
20 view cover	Experimental Arabic Novel the: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant more books like this by Stefan G Meyer The Experimental Arabic Novel places the modern and contemporary Arabic novel in the context of the modernist-postmodern culture debate in the West. Tracing the development of experimentalism in the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present, Meyer argues that it is possible to speak of distinct literary modernisms that have each evolved ... see all copies from £14.31! new only from £21.23!
21 view cover	The Tree and Other Stories more books like this by Abdallah Al-Nasser, Dina Bosio (Translator), Christopher Tingley (Translator) The short story in all its variety by one of Saudi Arabia's leading proponents includes social satire, political reflection, humorous anecdote and complex allegorical writing. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.74! \| first editions
22	Mafouz and Idris: Studies in Arabic Short Fiction more books like this by Mona Mikhail see all copies from £10.25! new only from £46.44! \| first editions
23 view cover	Sugar street more books like this by Najib Mahfuz "Sugar Street", the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz's masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he ... see all copies from £4.16! new only from £4.16!
24 view cover	Women of sand and myrhh more books like this by Hanan al-Shaykh see all copies from £2.57! new only from £14.32! \| first editions
25 view cover	Egyptian Writers Between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim, Gamal Al-Ghitani more books like this by Samia Mehrez see all copies from £6.61! new only from £11.70!

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