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![Return to Childhood](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/2834205/return-to-childhood.jpg)
Return to Childhood
Leila Abouzeid, whose novel Year of the Elephant has gone through six reprintings, has now translated her childhood memoir into English. Published in Rabat in 1993 to critical …
![My Thousand and One Nights](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/6697209/my-thousand-and-one-nights.jpg)
My Thousand and One Nights
The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of transformation from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, …
![I, Anatolia and Other Plays](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/6537718/i-anatolia-and-other-plays.jpg)
I, Anatolia and Other Plays
Since the middle of the twentieth century, Turkish playwriting has been notable for its verve and versatility. This two-volume anthology is the first major collection of modern …
![Island of Bewilderment](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/63088745/island-of-bewilderment.jpg)
Island of Bewilderment
Twenty-six-year-old college graduate, artist, and employee of the Ministry of Art and Culture, Hasti Nourian aspires to be a "new woman"—independent-minded, strong-willed, and in …
![Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/11398798/popular-culture-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa.jpg)
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, …
![Women on a Journey](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/7184639/women-on-a-journey.jpg)
Women on a Journey
Exiled, displaced, tortured, and grieving—each of the five Iraqi women whose lives and losses come to us through Haifa Zangana's skillfully wrought novel is searching in her own …
![Whatever Happened to Antara?](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/5780594/whatever-happened-to-antara.jpg)
Whatever Happened to Antara?
Walid Ikhlassi evokes the individual's struggle for dignity and significance in the Syrian city of Aleppo during the French mandate of the forties and fifties. His characters' …
![Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/23379156/gilgameshs-snake-and-other-poems.jpg)
Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems
The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to …
![Politics and Digital Literature in the Middle East](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/46878981/politics-and-digital-literature-in-the-middle-east.jpg)
Politics and Digital Literature in the Middle East
During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. Writings on subjects dealing with politics, globalization, and social matters gained …
![Modern Literature in the Near and Middle East, 1850-1970](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/64119429/modern-literature-in-the-near-and-middle-east-1850-1970.jpg)
Modern Literature in the Near and Middle East, 1850-1970
Enormous political and social changes brought about by modernization have naturally found expression in the literatures of the Near and Middle East. The contributors to this book, …