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Love‚who can count its varieties, measure its force, uncover the masks it wears, or predict how it binds and divides? In this spare novel, master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz gives us...

Both revolution and romance are at the heart of Return of the Spirit, first published in Arabic in 1933.The story of a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family, ending...

(2013) This multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama—the symbol of multi......

Set in the author’s own Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan’s second novel, the first to be translated and published in English, chronicles the daily rhythm of life of rural migrants...

Documenting a historic struggle with fresh vision, Sahar Khalifeh has penned what is at once a re-casting of the story of the Holy Family, a lyrical ode to Arab Jerusalem,...

(2015) In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire...

(2015) In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire...

كتاب التجليات (English) A surrealist novel edged with satire that comments on political issues, a son’s relationship with his father, and current events, all in hands of a master storyteller...

(2012) ايام الشتات (English) The quest for identity of a Muslim Jewish Egyptian immigrant in 1960s Paris “How could a good Muslim boy like you be born into a Jewish...

The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the...