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Papa Sartre
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country's intellectuals to Sartre's thought, he feels especially qualified by his physical resemblance to the...
by Gamal al-Ghitani
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century. Mahfouz was a pivotal figure...
Sufism
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
For more than a millennium, Sufism has been the core of the spiritual experience of countless Muslims. As the chief mystical tradition of Islam, it has helped to shape the history of Islamic societies. Although it is the Sufi face of Islam that has often appealed to Westerners, Sufis and Sufism remain...
Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism
The Theological and Ideological Basis of al-Qa'ida's Political Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Beginning with an examination of medieval Islamic fundamentalist movements such as Kharjism, Ibadism, Hanbalism, and Wahhabism, Sayed Khatab looks at the similarities and differences between them and present organizations such as al-Qa*'ida. It may be surprising that many of the radical narratives...
The Final Hour
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Hamid Burhan, a retired government employee, and his loyal wife Saniya have built themselves a home in the quiet southern suburb of Helwan, where they raise their son and two daughters, expecting life to remain as blessed as it was in the photograph of the happy family at a picnic in a Nileside park...
A Tunisian Tale
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
After ne'er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother's weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takes matters into his own hands and...
by Cecil C. Kuhne III
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Discover the legal side of skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, and other types of snow sports with this fascinating, new addition to the ABA Little Books Series! In it, you'll find a variety of compelling questions, such as:• Is falling down an unmarked ravine near a ski run an "inherent danger and...
The Man from Bashmour
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Egypt in the ninth century ad: an Arab, Muslim ruling class governs a country of mostly Coptic-speaking Christians. After an exorbitant land tax imposed by the caliph's governors sparks a peasant revolt, Budayr is dispatched to the marshlands of the Nile Delta as an escort for a church-appointed emissary...
Traveling Through Egypt
From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
"Egypt is one of the two wings of the world, and the excellences of which it can boast are countless. Its metropolis is the dome of Islam, its river the most splendid of rivers." al-Muqaddasi, c. 1000 To travelers, Egypt is a place of dreams: a country whose lifeblood is a mighty river,...
Women Travelers in Egypt
From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Until late in the nineteenth century, few guide books acknowledged the presence of women as travelers - although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women's accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth...
by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This sweeping novel depicts the intertwined lives of an assortment of Egyptians--Muslims and Copts, northerners and southerners, men and women--as they begin to settle in Egypt's great second city, and explores how the Second World War, starting in supposedly faraway Europe, comes crashing down on...
Cairo's Street Stories
Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the...
by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
During the 1956 Suez War or the Tripartite Aggression, as it is known in Egyp life in Alexandria goes on. The railroad workers and their families live in the low-income housing of el- Masakin, along the Mahmudiya Canal, but some of them take us on forays into the other, cosmopolitan Alexandria, whose...
The Lanterns of the King of Galilee
A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he must challenge...