Black Magic
29 January '14
Nasir, a photographer, meets Fatin, an independent woman who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure in taking what she wants from life. An affair begins that pulls Nasir into a whirlwind of erotic and emotional obsession. In a world of superficiality, materialism, and violence, a yearning for escape propels Nasir into a relationship […]
Thirsty River
29 January '14
A family’s destiny is intimately tied to the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein in this novel, the first about the U.S. war to be written by an Iraqi. The story follows four generations of the Bird family, who live on the banks of the Thirsty River in southern Iraq. The birth of each of […]
By the Rivers of Babylon
29 January '14
Khalid Kishtainy depicts in fictional form an episode of Arab-Jewish history which seems to have been forgotten. Based on many interviews with Israelis of Iraqi origin, By the Rivers of Babylon is a harrowing tale with a love story at its core. Two Iraqi brothers take their sister to a Jewish gynaecologist to establish whether […]
Seven Veils of Seth, The
29 January '14
In the ancient Egyptian religion, Seth is the evil god who out of jealousy slays his brother Osiris, the good god of agriculture, to seize the throne. Seth is, however, also the god of the desert and therefore a benevolent champion of desert dwellers like the traditionally nomadic Kel Tamasheq, better known as the Tuareg. […]
Seasons
29 January '14
A series of meditations following the sun, Seasons arrives in mesmerizing waves of observation and reflection. The blue depths of Adnan s inquiry into the nature of Being, Time, knowledge itself crest moment upon moment of quiet revelation, as the passions of history, myth, today, and yesterday rage and subside beneath her watchful eye. To […]
Sunset Oasis
29 January '14
When Mahmoud Abd El Zahir is sent to govern the remote Egyptian oasis of Siwa in the late 1890s, he knows the danger he faces – two of his predecessors were murdered. But having been accused of disloyalty to the current regime and its British overlords, he has little choice. Rather than stay behind in […]
Valley of Ashes
29 January '14
Ahmed Ibrahim al Fagih is one of the five leading contemporary writers of the Arab world, and his famous novel, Valley of Ashes, is available in English for the first time. A poetic coming-of-age story, Valley of Ashes portrays a tale of innocent love set against the harsh background of a traditional desert village. Jamila, […]
Map of Home, A
29 January '14
Polymath, The
29 January '14
With elusive simplicity and stylistic fluency this award-winning historical novel unravels the life of Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, reconstructing the personal and intellectual universe of a fourteenth-century genius. The novel’s dominant concern—the relationship between intellectuals and political power—addresses our times through the transparent veil of history.