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Gate of the Sun
Archipelago Books 2006; US$ 26.00Deeply human epic of the Palestinian struggle. A realigned "1001 Nights." more...
Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 112.00Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition.The novel is now a major genre in the Arabic literary field; this book explores the development of the novel, especially the ways in which the genre engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.It... more...
The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 33.99The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent examines how Francophone writers from the Maghreb and the Near East represent the intertwining of religion and politics in various disputes, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Lebanese and Algerian civil wars, the affair of the Muslim headscarf in France, and 9/11. It analyzes fiction, films, comic books,... more...
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 104.00This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. more...
Orhan Pamuk, Secularism, and Blasphemy
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk?s novels, including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After decades of criticism for wielding a depoliticized... more...
West of the Jordan
Beacon Press 2003; US$ 16.00This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling with national, ethnic, and sexual identities.... more...
A Mind at Peace
Archipelago Books 2011; US$ 20.00The Turkish Ulysses . A lyrical tribute to Istanbul, set on the eve of World War II. more...
Trials of Arab Modernity
Fordham University Press 2013; US$ 19.99Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity--which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation--this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris... more...
Soft Weapons
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 22.50Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran , Marjane Satrapi’s comics, and “Baghdad Blogger” Salam Pax’s Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose... more...
Reading Khaled Hosseini
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 40.00One of the most important emerging novelists today, Khaled Hosseini has enjoyed critical success and popular accolades. His first book, The Kite Runner, was voted Reading Group Book of the Year in 2006 and 2007 and was made into a major motion picture. His second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, seems destined to follow the same path. Written for book... more...









