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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Leiden University Press 2010; US$ 47.95This important title is the first bibliography of Omar Khayyám's classic work since the first Rubáiyát bibliography by A.G. Potter, published in 1929. Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Russian, Urdu and many other languages. It has been... more...
Naguib Mahfouz
Routledge 1993; US$ 41.95A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Included is a full biography and systematic analysis of the writer's works. more...
The 'vision of the victors' and 'the vision of the vanquished'
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 26.08Hauptbeschreibung 2008 was the year of the 220th anniversary of permanent white settlement in Australia - a year of celebration, but not for all citizens. The iconography of Australia packaged for the tourist industry is full of Aboriginal motifs, but the ongoing debate about frontier conflict, violence, dispossession and different interpretations... more...
The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam
BRILL 2011; US$ 136.00Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn D?niy?l (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom.? more...
The London Cabbie
The History Press 2011; US$ 11.65Forty years ago Alf Townsend passed The Knowledge - after 14,000 miles on a moped round central London. Since then he has covered millions of miles in his taxi. This book includes a selection of his extraordinary and hilarious tales of everyday life as a cabbie, in which we meet Mr Whippy and Violent Pete, Bread Roll Mick and the Motorway Mouse, Claude... more...
Atlantis
Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 35.00First described by the Greek philosopher Plato in the year 360 bce, Atlantis was a naval power located at the Pillars of Hercules (today's Strait of Gibraltar) that had successfully conquered large swaths of Western Europe. After its defeat, Atlantis then sunk into the sea, never to be seen or heard from again. For centuries, this tale of Atlantis... more...
Die Anfänge des grönländischen Romans
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 21.73Hauptbeschreibung Grönland Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein koloniales und von Machtasymmetrien geprägtes Land. Zeitgleich mit den ersten Ausbildungsreisen junger Grönländer nach Dänemark kann sich in der bis nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg abgeriegelten dänischen Kolonie eine eigene Romanliteratur herausbilden. Ebbe Volquardsen begibt sich auf die Spur... more...
Plague Lands and Other Poems
Carcanet 2011; US$ 18.89Born in Baghdad in 1945, now living in London, Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. In the first collection of his poetry to appear in English, his long sequence ?Plague Lands? is an elegy for the life of a lost city, a chronicle of a journey into exile, haunted by the deep history of an ancient... more...
In the Presence of Absence
Archipelago Books 2011; US$ 16.00From the incomparable, award-winning Mahmoud Darwish: a stunning book of prose poetry that recalls the Palestine of his youth. more...
The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi
Saqi 2012; US$ 11.65Nawal El Saadawi?s most recent play, God Resigns at the Summit Meeting, created an uproar in her native Egypt. On the basis of the title alone, officials declared the work heretical and charged El Saadawi with insulting the ?Almighty God?, not just Islam. Her prosecutors requested that all her books be destroyed, that she be arrested on return to... more...









