Marrakech Noir
01 October '18
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. North Africa finally enters the Noir Series arena with a finely crafted volume of dark stories, translated from Arabic, French, and […]
Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
31 January '17
On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: ‘I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that […]
Women of Algiers in their Apartment
31 January '17
The cloth edition of Assia Djebar’s Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year. Now available in paperback, this collection of three long stories, three short ones, and a theoretical postface by one […]
The Perception of Meaning
24 January '17
This award-winning collection of seventy-eight pieces of flash fiction presents an intense and powerful vision of today’s world seen through the eyes of an alienated and sardonic author. The Perception of Meaning reads like an alternative history to our world—a collage of small nightmares brought to life by a canon of unlikely historical figures, including […]
The Djinn in the Skull: Stories from hidden Morocco
24 January '17
A blind man searches for his wife in the dark; a missing boy roams the desert; a djinn appears out of a human skull; a sick nomad returns to his home town; a brother and sister arrive in an unfamiliar town at the stroke of midnight… Author Samantha Herron has spent time living with a […]
Voice of their own, a
12 February '16
This collection of short stories by Egyptian women aims at representing in English translation a cross-section of stories written by two generations of women: Those who began writing in the late fifties and early sixties and are still writing represent the first generation after the pioneers. They are followed by younger women who started publishing […]
Children of the Waters
01 December '15
This collection of short stories, poems, and vignettes offers a window on contemporary literary experimentation in Arabic, as well as attitudes on everyday life and social relations in urban Egypt. Ibtihal Salem deals lyrically with contemporary Egyptian problems from class, gender, and political perspectives.
Egyptian Tales and Short Stories of the 1970s and 1980s
01 December '15
From fanciful folktales to realistic vignettes, Egyptian Tales and Short Stories of the 1970s and 1980s introduces the reader to the work of Egyptian writers who deserve world attention. Illustrating the diversity and vitality of modern Egyptian literature, the stories in this collection range widely in setting, theme and treatment – urban, rural, contemporary, timeless, […]