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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...

A highly personal and sensitive exploration of motherhood. In How to Mend: On Motherhood and its Ghosts, Iman Mersal  navigates a long and winding road, from the only surviving picture of...

Avec sa langue habituelle qui n'est pas de bois et qui ne mâche pas ses mots Joumana Haddad se livre de manière originale dans un ouvrage composé de sept chapitres...

(2015) This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a willful young...

A psychological study of the first order with a subtly Freudian flavor, The Mirage is the autobiographical account of Kamil Ru’ba, a tortured soul who finds himself struggling unduly to...

A late work by the Egyptian Nobel literature laureate, Morning and Evening Talk is an epic tale of Egyptian life over five generations. Set in Cairo, it traces the fortunes...

"A true journey into the human psyche."—Cairo MagazineThe tale of one man’s quest and survival in the Sahara Desert, set in the framework of Tuareg mythologyA Tuareg youth ventures into...

On his 'journey from the dreams of the jinn to the love of the truth' Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi is guided by his motto, 'let life be filled with holy...

In the city of Alexandria, five students encounter political struggle and the casual cruelty of a harsh government, but ultimately love and resilience.In the 1970s, once-cosmopolitan Alexandria was at the...

First published in Arabic in 1983, this brief but powerful parable is set in a mythical, timeless Middle East. It is presented as the journal of a wanderer known as...