Middle East Literature In Translation
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A Cup of Sin
Selected Poems
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780815611622
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Simin Behbahani’s collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, much of her poetry reflects the traumatic experiences...
Sour Grapes
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780815611547
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins....
Allah's Spacious Earth
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780815611554
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Allah's Spacious Earth is a stunningly fresh and timely political dystopia that depicts the tragic yet very real consequences of tensions between majority populations and Muslim minorities in the Western...
Solitaire
A Novel
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815611431
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
In Hassouna Mosbahi’s engrossing and keenly observed novel, he takes readers deep into one day in the life of Yunus, a Tunisian intellectual. A professor of French language and Flaubert specialist,...
Packaged Lives
Ten Stories and a Novella
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CA$20.95
ISBN: 9780815611370
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
The carefully crafted, subtle, and humorous stories in Packaged Lives show Zangana at her best as a fiction writer. She portrays her subjects keenly, sensitively, and lovingly but without compromise....
Hot Maroc
A Novel
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780815611356
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
With an infectious blend of humor, satire, and biting social commentary, Yassin Adnan gives readers a portrait of contemporary Morocco—and the city of Marrakech—told through the eyes of the hapless...
The Heart of Lebanon
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780815611295
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
When celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to...
The Ant's Gift
A Study of the Shahnameh
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CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780815637011
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant’s Gift, Meskoob applies his insight...
The Ant's Gift
A Study of the Shahnameh
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815637080
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant’s Gift, Meskoob applies his insight...
Hafez in Love
A Novel
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815611288
Pub Date: May 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez is in love. He is in love with a girl, with a city, and with Persian poetry. Despite his enmity with the new and dangerous city leader, the jealousy of his fellow court...
The Slave Yards
A Novel
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815611257
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi, Najwa Bin Shatwan’s powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. We meet Atiqa as a grown woman, happily...
Gaia, Queen of Ants
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780815611158
Pub Date: February 2020
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations as he follows the lives of three...
The Book of Disappearance
A Novel
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780815611110
Pub Date: July 2019
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set...
Tenants and Cobwebs
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780815611080
Pub Date: November 2018
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Samir Naqqash’s stirring novel Tenants and Cobwebs nostalgically commemorates the lost culture of an ancient Iraqi Jewish minority living amidst a majority Muslim population in 1940s Baghdad. The...
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria
A Travelogue
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780815636540
Pub Date: January 2020
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu‘mani (1857–1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and...
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria
A Travelogue
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CA$101.95
ISBN: 9780815636564
Pub Date: January 2020
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu‘mani (1857–1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and...
A Cup of Sin
Selected Poems
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780815611622
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Sour Grapes
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780815611547
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Allah's Spacious Earth
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780815611554
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Solitaire
A Novel
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815611431
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Packaged Lives
Ten Stories and a Novella
CA$20.95
ISBN: 9780815611370
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Hot Maroc
A Novel
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780815611356
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
The Heart of Lebanon
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780815611295
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
The Ant's Gift
A Study of the Shahnameh
CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780815637011
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
The Ant's Gift
A Study of the Shahnameh
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815637080
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Hafez in Love
A Novel
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815611288
Pub Date: May 2021
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
The Slave Yards
A Novel
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815611257
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Gaia, Queen of Ants
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780815611158
Pub Date: February 2020
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
The Book of Disappearance
A Novel
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780815611110
Pub Date: July 2019
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Tenants and Cobwebs
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780815611080
Pub Date: November 2018
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria
A Travelogue
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780815636540
Pub Date: January 2020
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria
A Travelogue
CA$101.95
ISBN: 9780815636564
Pub Date: January 2020
Imprint: Syracuse University Press