Ibrahim Nasrallah was born in Amman, Jordan, and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp. Through the lives of three generations of a Palestinian family in a small village, Nasrallah depicts the tragedy of a whole nation under changing historical circumstances: from the late Ottoman rule to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. […]
A man who goes to bring a handful of soil from his motherland; a boy who defies authority to eat an orange with his mother; how dogs and cats caused chaos with the Arab/Israeli conflict; the consequences of a perfumed handkerchief discovered in the underpants of a business executive; the cost of old sins. Those […]
Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. There, he […]
First published in Arabic in 2008, The Tobacco Keeper relates the investigation of the life of a celebrated Jewish Iraqi musician who was expelled to Israel in the 1950s. Having returned to Iraq, via Iran, the musician is thrown out as an Israeli spy. Returning for the third time under a forged passport, he is […]
Gaza is being bombed. Rashid – a bright, unemployed twenty-seven-year-old, who has stayed up smoking grass watching it happen – wakes the next day to hear that he’s got the escape route he’s been waiting for: a scholarship to London. His twin sister, Iman – frustrated by atrocities and inaction around her – has also […]
Volume 18 includes three titles: The Day the Leader Was Killed; Morning and Evening Talk and The Coffeehouse. To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the AUC Press, which has been publishing English translations of Mahfouz’s work since 1978, presents all his novels, three collections of […]
Volume 10 includes three titles:The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail and The Search. To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the AUC Press, which has been publishing English translations of Mahfouz’s work since 1978, presents all his novels, three collections of short stories, and […]
Volume 9 includes one title: Children of the Alley. To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the AUC Press, which has been publishing English translations of Mahfouz’s work since 1978, presents all his novels, three collections of short stories, and his autobiographical writings in a […]
This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa’ Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers – including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz – noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, tells the dramatic story of a young Muslim who, when […]