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Castigation

de Sultan Raev

~~32,43€~~ 22,70€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Offers a stunning meditation on humanityâ€™s capacity for both destruction and transcendence. Blending elements of Central Asian epic tradition with surrealist storytelling, Sultan Raev crafts a novel that is at once a scathing critique of power, a meditation on historical violence, and a darkly comic exploration of collective memory.
Allah'S Spacious Earth

de Omar Sayfo

~~22,97€~~ 16,08€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Set in an imagined future where anti-Muslim sentiment and political pressure lead to a community being cut off from the rest of society, this stunningly fresh dystopian novel depicts the very real consequences of tensions between majority populations and Muslim minorities in the Western world.
Sour Grapes

de Zakaria Tamer

~~18,92€~~ 13,24€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 A collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society's margins. Evoking under-ripened and immature fruit, the collection's title serves as a bittersweet metaphor for a world that possesses the seeds of change but is unprepared for the harvest.
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Ibrahim The Mad And Other Plays - Volume One: An Anthology Of Modern Turkish Drama

39,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A collection of modern Turkish plays in English dealing with ancient Anatolian mythology, Ottoman history, contemporary social issues, family dramas, and ribald comedy from Turkey's cities and rural areas. It also includes several plays set outside Turkey.
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Waiting For The Past - A Novel

de Hadiya Hussein

~~20,27€~~ 14,19€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Hadiya Husseinâ€™s poignant 2017 novel plunges readers into a haunting and powerful story of resilience. Set at the end of Saddam Husseinâ€™s brutal reign, the novel follows Narjis, a young Iraqi woman, on her quest to discover what has become of the man she loves.
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Light Within The Shade - Eight Hundred Years Of Hungarian Poetry

~~20,27€~~ 14,19€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Includes 135 of the most important Hungarian poems ranging from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century. Organised in chronological order, the poems are followed by an essay by Ozsvath providing the historical, biographical, and cultural background of the poets and the poetry.
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Packaged Lives - Ten Stories And A Novella

de Wen-Chin Ouyang

~~20,21€~~ 14,15€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 The carefully crafted, subtle, and humorous stories in Packaged Lives show Zangana at her best as a fiction writer. She portrays her subjects keenly, sensitively, and lovingly but without compromise. Iraqis living in exile come to life in her narratives as men and women who are caught between two worlds.
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Gay Is Good - The Life And Letters Of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny

~~39,14€~~ 27,40€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Contrary to popular notions, today's LGBT movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969. Before Stonewall, there was Franklin Kameny, one of the most significant figures in the gay rights movement. In Gay Is Good, Long collects Kameny's letters, revealing some of the early stirrings of today's politically powerful LGBT movement.
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Child From The Village

de Sayyid Qutb

19,86€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This tender memoir chronicles the early years of Sayyid Qutb, one of Egypt's most influential radical Islamist thinkers and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Turkey, Egypt, And Syria - A Travelogue

de Shibli Numani

39,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar ShibliÂ¯ Nuâ€˜maÂ¯niÂ¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nuâ€˜maÂ¯niÂ¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.
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Turkey, Egypt, And Syria - A Travelogue

de Shibli Numani

~~81,11€~~ 56,78€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar ShibliÂ¯ Nuâ€˜maÂ¯niÂ¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nuâ€˜maÂ¯niÂ¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.
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Turkey, Egypt, And Syria - A Travelogue

de Shibli Numani

~~43,26€~~ 30,28€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar ShibliÂ¯ Nuâ€˜maÂ¯niÂ¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nuâ€˜maÂ¯niÂ¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.
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Moroccan Folktales

de Jilali El Koudia

~~20,27€~~ 14,19€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savoured, studied, or simply treasured.
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Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language

de Abdelfattah Kilito

~~20,27€~~ 14,19€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 The act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shall Not Speak My Language explores this tension in his address of the dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition.
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Candidate - A Novel

de Zareh Vorpouni

19,86€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is one of the most masterful, psychologically penetrating novels in Armenian diaspora literature. Published in 1967 at a time of political awakening among the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide, the novel explores themes of trauma, forgiveness, reconciliation, friendship, and sacrifice, and examines the relationship between victim and perpetrator.
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My Bird

de Fariba Vafi

15,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Telling the story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and motherhood, the author gives readers a portrait of one woman's struggle to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. She demystifies contemporary Iran by taking readers beyond the stereotypes and into the lives of individuals.
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Abundance From The Desert - Classical Arabic Poetry

de Raymond Farrin

25,16€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry. Covering the period roughly of 500-1250 CE, this volume features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres.
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Monarch Of The Square - An Anthology Of Muhammad Zafzaf’S Short Stories

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 <p>A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco’s greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers.<br><br>Zafzaf’s stories are set within a variety of contexts, each portraying a slice of life, a simple struggle for survival in a challenging world that is changing at a rapid pace. Narrative time is reduced to a single glimpse in these stories, full of irony, sarcasm, and sympathy. He covers all aspects of Moroccan life, from remote rural villages to modern cities. The stories in this collection explore the various myths, beliefs, and traditions that operate within Moroccan culture, questioning them from a distance in an easy, conversational manner that is the hallmark of Zafzaf’s style.</p>
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Arabs And The Art Of Storytelling - A Strange Familiarity

de Abdelfattah Kilito

19,86€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala' refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that are often treated as fossilized and untouchable cultural treasures.
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Felatun Bey And Rakim Efendi - An Ottoman Novel

de Ahmet Mithat Efendi

15,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Ahmet Midhat Efendi's famous 1875 novel Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrounds. The novel provides readers with an elegant yet powerful appeal for progressive reforms and individual freedoms.
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Elusive Fox

de Muhammad Zafzaf

15,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Considered one of Moroccoâ€™s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by those living in the margins of society. In The Elusive Fox, a young teacher visits the coastal city of Essaouira in the 1960s. There he meets a group of European bohemians and local Moroccans and is exposed to the grittier side of society.
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My Torturess

de Bensalem Himmich

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 In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being involved in jihadist activities. Drugged and carried off the street, Hamuda is â€œextraordinarily renderedâ€ to a prison camp in an unknown location where he is interrogated and subjected to various methods of torture.
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From Where We Stand - Recovering A Sense Of Place

de Deborah Tall

~~20,27€~~ 14,19€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places-and the loss to us if there are no such connections.
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The Desert - Or, The Life And Adventures Of Jubair Wali Al-Mammi

de Albert Memmi

~~20,27€~~ 14,19€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 "First published a Le Daesert, ou la Vie et les Aventures de Jubair Ouali El-Mammi, Paris, Editions Gallimard, 1977, 1989."--Title page verso.
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