SAQI Middle East & the Islamic World 2019 SAQI Middle East & the Islamic World 2019
About Saqi Books Contents Saqi is a leading independent publisher of trade and academic New Titles 1 books on the Middle East and North Africa. Publishing in a History 2 wide range of fields, from history and gender studies, to art Islamic Studies 5 and literature, Saqi is the go-to place for conversations on the Politics 6 region’s most pressing issues, and to discover its rich cultural Culture & Society 8 heritage. Some of our bestsellers include The Crusades through Literature 10 Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf, Beyond the Veil by Fatema Mernissi Language 11 and The Arabic Alphabet by Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano. International Fiction 12 We are also proud to bring out in English translation the best Art 14 in new and classic Arabic literature, including works by Naguib Index 16 Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis and Nawal El Saadawi. Saqi was awarded the IPG Diversity Award in 2013, the British Sales Contacts 17 Book Industry Award for Diversity in Literature in 2009 and the Arab British Culture and Society award in 2008. Prices and dates: Kindly note that all prices in this catalogue are recommended retail prices and are Lynn Gaspard [email protected] subject to alteration without notice. Details given of Elizabeth Briggs [email protected] illustrations, format, content and month of publication were accurate at the time the catalogue went to press. Saqi Books, 26 Westbourne Grove, London W2 5RH T: 020 7221 9347 W: www.saqibooks.com Cover Illustration © David Wardle. From The Quarter by ‘A list of exceptional writers’ the guardian Naguib Mahfouz; see page 14. ‘An outstanding independent house … always a superb source of books from and about the Arab world’ the independent Inspection Copies Many of Saqi’s titles are available free to ‘Saqi plays an invaluable role in making available pioneering, lecturers for inspection, provided that you specialist and often controversial books that large publishers are teaching a course for which they may refuse to go near’ the times be recommended as set texts. To request an inspection copy, find the book you want in our catalogue and send your request @SaqiBooks to [email protected]. Please include details of your course and your institutional address and telephone number for the delivery.
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ATATÜRK THE FIRST LADY OF MODERN TURKEY
‘Rich, surprising and profound’ orhan pamuk
İpek Çalışlar
BELIEVING WOMEN IN ISLAM LEGACY OF EMPIRE MADAM ATATÜRK Unreading Patriarchal Britain’s Support of Zionism The First Lady of Modern Turkey Interpretations of the Qur’an and the Creation of Israel İpek Çalışlar Asma Barlas Gardner Thompson See page 5 See page 2 See page 4
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A MAP OF ABSENCE THE QUARTER LOVE IN THE KINGDOM OF OIL An Anthology of Palestinian Naguib Mahfouz Nawal El Saadawi Writing on the Nakba Edited by Atef Alshaer See page 10 See page 12 See page 13
www.saqibooks.com HISTORY
LEGACY OF EMPIRE Britain’s Support of Zionism and the Creation of Israel Gardner Thompson
In this compelling account, Gardner Thompson offers a corrective review of Britain’s role in the turbulent history of Palestine before World War Two. This is essential reading for the pursuit of Arab-Israeli reconciliation today.
9780863563614 September 2019 £20 / $26.95 hardback 234x153mm 352pp
ZEALOT THE CRUSADES The Life and Times THROUGH ARAB EYES of Jesus of Nazareth Amin Maalouf Reza Aslan bestseller #1 New York Times Bestseller Retells the stories of the Crusades in a vivacious style A fascinating biography and a portraying a society shaken 2 fast-paced account of first- by a traumatic encounter century Palestine. with an alien culture. £9.99 £14.99 paperback 198x129mm 352pp paperback 216x135mm 296pp 9781908906298 2014 9780863560231 2006
A CONCISE A CONCISE SYRIA HISTORY OF HISTORY OF A Recent History SUNNIS AND SHI‘IS THE ARABS John McHugo John McHugo John McHugo
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ENEMY ON THE THE RISE AND FALL THE COMMANDER EUPHRATES OF A PALESTINIAN Fawzi al-Qawuqji The Battle for Iraq DYNASTY and the Fight for 1914–1921 The Husaynis Arab Independence 1914–1948 Ian Rutledge Ilan Pappé Laila Parsons £10.99 / $18.95 £12.99 £20 / $45 paperback paperback hardback 198x129mm 512pp 198x129mm 402pp 234x153mm 320pp 9780863561702 2015 9780863564536 2017 9780863561665 2017
www.saqibooks.com HISTORY
AN IMAM IN PARIS Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric, 1826–1831 Rifa’a Rafi’ al-Tahtawi Translated by Daniel L. Newman
One of the earliest and most influential records of the Muslim encounter with Enlightenment-era European thought, introducing ideas of modernity to his native land. In addition to its historical and literary value, al-Tahtawi’s work offers invaluable insight into early conceptions of Europe and the ‘Other’. As vibrant and palpable today as they were over 150 years ago; informative and often acute, to humorous effect.
‘[A] fine translation ... extensively and meticulously notated’ The International History Review
9780863564079 September 2011 £16.99 / $24.95 paperback 234x153mm 416pp
THE ARABS AND KING FAISAL OF SAUDI THE HOLOCAUST ARABIA The Arab-Israeli War Personality, Faith and Times of Narratives Alexei Vassiliev Gilbert Achcar ‘A masterpiece of scholarship – brings to life the legacy of ‘Refreshing study, showing that one of Saudi Arabia’s most Muslim anti-Semitism is neither influential figures.’ Professor 3 universal, nor inevitable.’ Anoush Ehteshami, Durham The Economist University £14.99 £25 / $40 paperback 216x135mm 366pp paperback 234x153mm 528pp 9780863564581 2011 9780863561290 2015
THE ARAB THE LIFE OF THE SHI‘IS OF REDISCOVERY SALADIN SAUDI ARABIA OF EUROPE Sir Hamilton Gibb Fouad Ibrahim A Study in Cultural Encounters Ibrahim Abu-Lughod £35 / $59.95 £14.99 / $21.95 £9.99 / $14.95 hardback paperback paperback 234x156mm 304pp 216x135mm 192pp 216x135mm 94pp 9780863569036 9780863564031 2011 9780863569289 2006
THE ORIGINS OF ARABIA WITHOUT THE OLD SOCIAL THE DRUZE PEOPLE SULTANS CLASSES AND THE AND RELIGION Fred Halliday REVOLUTIONARY Philip K. Hitti MOVEMENTS OF IRAQ Hanna Batatu
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www.saqibooks.com HISTORY / TURKEY & OTTOMAN STUDIES
MADAM ATATÜRK The First Lady of Modern Turkey İpek Çalışlar
Little is known today about Latife Hanım, Kemal Ataturk’s wife, though she played a central role in the establishment of the modern Republic of Turkey. This internationally bestselling biography vividly brings to life the story of an exceptional and courageous woman, well ahead of her time, who lived through a remarkable period in Turkish history.
‘Sumptuous, surprising and profound’ Orhan Pamuk
9780863563355 March 2019 £12.99 / $18.95 paperback Bformat 366pp
SULEIMAN THE HARUN AL-RASHID MAGNIFICENT And the World of The André Clot Thousand and One Nights André Clot ‘The best book from which to gain an introduction to Remarkable account of Suleiman’s era’ notable caliph Harun 4 Middle East Journal al-Rashid, portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights.
£14.99 / $21.95 £12.99 / $19.95 paperback 216x135mm 416pp paperback 216x135mm 268pp 9780863564987 2012 9780863565502 2005
DUBROVNIK FLAG ON THE A GLANCE INTO A History MOUNTAIN OTTOMAN BOSNIA Ivo Žanić Matija Mažuranić Robin Harris
bestseller
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THE JANISSARIES THE BOSNIAN THE HISTORY OF Godfrey Goodwin CHURCH BOSNIA John Fine Marko Attila Hoare
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www.saqibooks.com ISLAMIC STUDIES
BELIEVING WOMEN IN ISLAM Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an Asma Barlas
Offering a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how, for centuries, Muslims have read patriarchy into the Qur’an to justify existing religious and social structures. In this seminal volume, she takes readers into the heart of Islamic teachings on women, gender and patriarchy, offering an egalitarian reading of Islam’s most sacred scripture.
‘Original and groundbreaking’ John L. Esposito, Georgetown University
9780863564628 February 2019 £25 paperback 234x153mm 316pp
BEYOND THE VEIL ISLAM Male-Female Dynamics To Reform or to Subvert? in a Muslim Society Mohammed Arkoun Fatema Mernissi A radical review of the ‘One of the most successful mainstream historiography of analyses of the position of Islam by one of the foremost women in a contemporary thinkers of the Muslim world. Islamic society.’ Archiv 5 Orientani
£14.99 £14.99 / $25.95 paperback 216x135mm 224pp paperback 216x135mm 416pp 9780863564123 2011 9780863567650 2006
UNDERSTANDING THE SUFISM AND SEXUALITY QUR’AN TODAY SURREALISM IN ISLAM Mahmoud Hussein Adonis Abdelwahab Bouhdiba
£10 / $14.95 £12.99 / $19.95 £16.99 / $24.95 paperback paperback paperback 216x135mm 176pp 216x135mm 248pp 216x135mm 304pp 9780863568497 2013 9780863561894 2016 9780863564932 2012
ISLAM AND IMAMS AND EMIRS POLITICAL ISLAM CAPITALISM State, Religion and Context versus Maxime Rodinson Sects in Islam ideology Fuad I. Khuri Khaled Hroub (ed.)
£14.99 / $24.95 £14.99 / $25.95 £16.99 / $24.95 paperback paperback paperback 216x135mm 344pp 216x135mm 272pp 234x153mm 320pp 9780863564710 2007 9780863564260 2006 9780863566592 2010
www.saqibooks.com POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
YEMEN IN CRISIS Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State Helen Lackner
‘An eminently valuable account of Yemen’s modern history and current travails’ Roger Owen, Harvard University
‘An outstanding book ... Lackner confirms her standing as the foremost authority on Yemeni politics.’ Eugene Rogan, University of Oxford
‘Lackner is superbly equipped to trace the causes for the collapse of the Yemeni state.’ Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
9780863561931 October 2017 £25 hardback 234x153mm 336pp
MORBID SYMPTOMS THE GULF 6 Relapse in the Arab Uprising COOPERATION COUNCIL Gilbert Achcar STATES Hereditary Succession, Oil ‘A sobering yet generous and Foreign Powers account of the Arab people’s Dr Yousef al-Yousef fight for true liberation and the A timely analysis of the political lessons that have been learned economies of the GCC since the from that struggle.’ Jacobin 1970s to the present.
£12.99 £45 / $60 paperback 216x135mm 260pp hardback 234x153mm 464pp 9780863561832 2016 9780863561474 2017
MARXISM, THE PEOPLE WANT WHY YEMEN ORIENTALISM, A Radical Exploration MATTERS COSMOPOLITANISM of the Arab Uprising A Society in Gilbert Achcar Transition Gilbert Achcar Helen Lackner (ed.)
£9.99 £16.99 £21.99 / $34.95 paperback paperback paperback 198x129mm 176pp 234x153mm 288pp 234x153mm 360pp 9780863567933 2013 9780863568992 2013 9780863567773 2014
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RETURN TO THE SHADOWS The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring Alison Pargeter
‘A highly timely analysis ... It offers us an excellent insight into one of the most acute crises that faces the Islamic world today.’ George Joffé, University of Cambridge
‘Masterful analysis enriched by access to excellent primary sources’ Lorenzo Vidino, George Washington University
‘A brilliant and clear-eyed analyst’ The Guardian
‘This outstanding book offers a devastating portrait of Muslim Brotherhood groups in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.’ Eric Trager, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
9780863561443 October 2016 £16.99 / $24.95 hardback 216x135mm 304pp
THE MUSLIM ISLAMIC STATE BROTHERHOOD The Digital Caliphate 7 From Opposition to Power Abdel Bari Atwan Alison Pargeter bestseller
An authoritative analysis ‘Atwan draws a convincing that follows the twists and picture of the Islamic State … turns leading to the Muslim An authoritative account’ Brotherood becoming a key and New York Review of Books legitimate political actor.
£10.99 / $15.95 £9.99 paperback 198x129mm 288pp paperback 198x129mm 272pp 9780863568596 2013 9780863561344 2015
LEBANON ADRIFT THE SHI‘A WORLDS SELF-CRITICISM From Battleground AND IRAN AFTER THE DEFEAT to Playground Sabrina Mervin Sadik al-Azm Samir Khalaf
£18.99 / $27.95 £20 / $29.95 £14.99 / $21.95 paperback paperback paperback 234x153mm 296pp 234x153mm 368pp 216x135mm 192pp 9780863564345 2012 9780863564062 2010 9780863564888 2011
www.saqibooks.com CULTURE & SOCIETY
COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY Youth in the Middle East and North Africa Edited by Jörg Gertel and Ralf Hexel
In this landmark volume, an international interdisciplinary team of researchers assess a survey of 9,000 sixteen- to thirty-year-olds from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen, resulting in the most comprehensive, in-depth study of young people in the MENA region to date.
‘The surveys and analyses in this book provide some of the best sources to understand the status of Arab youth in the years after the Arab Spring.’ Asef Bayat, University of Illinois
9780863569609 August 2018 £24.99 / $35 paperback 234x153mm 400pp
SYRIA SPEAKS SUPERMAN IS AN ARAB Art and Culture from On God, Marriage, the Frontline Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions Malu Halasa et al bestseller Joumana Haddad ‘One of the most intelligent, ‘An introduction to the culture talented and courageous young 8 of the original Syrian protesters’ Arab poets and intellectuals New York Review of Books today.’ Mahmoud Darwish
£14.99 / $18.95 £8.99 paperback 216x135mm 328pp paperback 216x135mm 160pp 9780863567872 2014 9781908906090 2012
I KILLED ARAB YOUTH HIGHER EDUCATION SCHEHERAZADE Social Mobilisation IN THE GULF STATES Confessions of an in Times of Risk Shaping Economies, Angry Arab Woman Politics and Culture Samir Khalaf & Joumana Haddad Roseanne Saad Khalaf Christopher Davidson & (eds) Peter Mackenzie Smith (eds) £8.99 £17.99 / $24.95 £14.99 / $21.95 paperback paperback paperback 216x135mm 160pp 234x153mm 416pp 216x135mm 192pp 9780863564277 2010 9780863564574 2012 9780863566974 2008
THE GULF FAMILY UNSPEAKABLE IMAGINED Kinship Policies and LOVE MASCULINITIES Modernity Gay and Lesbian Life Male Identity and Culture in the Middle East in the Middle –East Alanoud Alsharekh (ed.) Brian Whitaker Mai Ghoussoub & Emma Sinclair-Webb (eds) £14.99 / $21.95 £10.99 £14.99 / $19.95 paperback paperback paperback 216x135mm 200pp 198x129mm 288pp 216x135mm 296pp 9780863566806 2007 9780863564833 2011 9780863560422 2006
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ISLAMIC ART AND THE MUSEUM Approaches to Art and Archaeology of the Muslim Work in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber and Gerhard Wolf
Challenges existing notions of research, methodology and analysis of Islamic art and investigates the extent to which socio-historical and anthropological approaches result in new analytical perspectives.
This important study also examines the difficulties that need to be overcome when presenting Islamic art to avoid reducing the objects merely to the visual and aesthetic.
9780863564130 January 2013 £25 / $37.95 paperback w/ flaps 235x170mm 374pp
KAHLIL GIBRAN BEIRUT, I LOVE YOU A Biography A Memoir Alexandre Najjar Zena El Khalil
Biography of the seminal figure ‘Less the work of a writer, and Kahlil Gibran, author of the more like a book written by an internationally bestselling artist’ Forward Magazine The Prophet. 9
£9.99 / $14.95 £8.99 paperback 216x135mm 192pp paperback 198x129mm 224pp 9780863566684 2008 9780863564154 2009
IN JAIL WITH NAZIM A COUNTRY OF AL-KHWĀRIZMĪ HIKMET WORDS The Beginnings Orhan Kemal A Palestinian of Algebra Journey from the Refugee Camp Roshdi Rashed to the Front Page Abdel Bari Atwan £10.99 / $15.95 £20 / $29.95 £70 / $100 paperback hardback hardback 198x129mm 224pp 234x153mm 290pp 250x165mm 408pp 9780863564116 2010 9780863566219 2008 9780863564307 2009
A BRIEF THE SULTAN’S SEX POPULAR CULTURE INTRODUCTION TO POTIONS AND POLITICAL ASTRONOMY IN Arab Aphrodisiacs in IDENTITY IN THE THE MIDDLE EAST the Middle Ages ARAB GULF STATES John M. Steele Alanoud Alsharekh Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī & Robert Springborg Translated by (eds) Daniel L. Newman £7.99 / $11.95 £17.99 / $29.95 £14.99 / $21.95 paperback with flaps hardback paperback 200x133mm 160pp 216x135mm 280pp 216x135mm 144pp 9780863564284 2008 9780863567476 2014 9780863566929 2008
www.saqibooks.com LITERATURE
A MAP OF ABSENCE An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba Edited by Atef Alshaer
This landmark collection brings together the finest poetry and prose on the Nakba by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years, for the first time.
Includes translated excerpts of poems, novels, short stories and memoirs by major authors such as Mahmoud Darwish, Samira Azzam, Fadwa Tuqan and Edward Said, as well as by emerging Palestinian writers.
9780863569906 May 2019 £16.99 / $23.95 paperback 216x135mm 320pp
CLASSICAL POEMS VICTIMS OF A MAP BY ARAB WOMEN A Bilingual Anthology A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry Abdullah al-Udhari (ed.) Abdullah al-Udhari (ed.)
bestseller ‘The collection’s range of Presents the finest works of 10 female poets from radically different eras is extraordinary.’ Mahmoud Darwish, Samih Mona Eltahawy al-Qasim and Adonis.
£14.99 / $21.95 £9.99 / $14.95 paperback 216x135mm 240pp paperback 216x135mm 168pp 9780863560477 2017 9780863565243 2005
NICOSIA NICOSIA BEYOND PAY NO HEED TO THE THINGS I BEYOND BARRIERS THE ROCKETS WOULD TELL YOU BARRIERS Voices from Palestine in the British Muslim VOICES Edited by FROM A Alev Adil a Divided City Present Tense Women Write Aydin Mehmet Ali DIVIDED Bahriye Kemal CITY Maria Petrides Bahriye Kemal et al. Marcello Di Cintio Sabrina Mahfouz bestseller
£12.99 / $18.95 £8.99 £12.99 / $15.95 paperback paperback paperback 216x135mm 256pp 198x129mm 224pp 216x135mm 256pp 9780863566745 2019 9780863569807 2018 9780863561467 2017
PASHTUN TALES DESERT SONGS OF A RIVER DIES OF From the Pakistan- THE NIGHT THIRST Afghan Frontier 1500 Years of Arabic Diaries Literature Aisha Ahmad Mahmoud Darwish & Roger Boase Suheil Bushrui & James M. Malarkey
£9.99 / $14.95 £12.99 / $18.95 £10.99 paperback paperback paperback with flaps 216x135mm 368pp 198x129mm 480pp 200x155mm 168pp 9780863566370 2008 9780863561757 2015 9780863566349 2009
www.saqibooks.com LANGUAGE
THE ARABIC ALPHABET Nicholas Awde Putros Samano
bestseller Anyone wishing to learn Arabic faces a formidable initial problem: the alphabet. This vital resource proceeds step-by- step through all the letters of the Arabic alphabet, showing the sounds they stand for and how they are combined into words. Readers will find that progress is rapid and will be surprised at the relative ease with which they master the first steps in learning this increasingly important world language.
‘Demonstrates the letters in easy-to-follow, stroke-by-stroke diagrams. Excellent value.’ Library Journal
9780863569548 February 2006 £7.99 paperback 216x135mm 96pp
SIMPLE ARABIC A BRIEF INTRODUCTION A Comprehensive Course TO THE ARABIC Yousif Haddad ALPHABET John F. Healey & G. Rex Smith Suitable for beginners as well as those with a grounding in Using detailed illustrations, the the basics, this is an essential authors investigate early Islamic self-teaching tool on how to inscriptions as well as classical 11 speak, read and write modern Arabic scripts. standard Arabic.
£9.99 / $14.95 £8.99 paperback 216x135mm 192pp paperback 198x129mm 224pp 9780863566684 2008 9780863564154 2009
A-Z OF ARABIC- ENGLISH-ARABIC / MODERN ARABIC ENGLISH-ARABIC ARABIC-ENGLISH SHORT STORIES TRANSLATION A Practical Guide Ronak Husni & Ronak Husni Daniel L. Newman Basil Hatim (eds)
bestseller
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A READER OF A BRIEF AN INTRODUCTION MODERN ARABIC INTRODUCTION TO TO ARAB POETICS SHORT STORIES MODERN ARABIC Adonis Sabry Hafez LITERATURE & Catherine Cobham David Tresilian (eds)
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www.saqibooks.com INTERNATIONAL FICTION
THE QUARTER Naguib Mahfouz Foreword by Elif Shafak
This collection of stories by pre-eminent Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz was recently discovered among his old papers. Found with a slip of paper titled ‘for publishing 1994’, they are published here for the first time. Resplendent with Mahfouz’s delicate and poignant observations of everyday happenings, these lively stories take the reader deep into the beating heart of Cairo.
‘A towering literary figure, and the joyous chronicler of a turbulent Egyptian century’ The Economist
‘A master of both detailed realism and fabulous storytelling’ The Guardian
9780863563751 July 2019 £10.99 / $14.95 hardback 198x129mm 128pp
ELSEWHERE, HOME FOR BREAD ALONE Leila Aboulela Mohamed Choukri ‘A beautiful and desolate bestseller collection … quiet brilliance.’ The Observer ‘Achingly elegant ... Choukri’s irrepressible, ultimately ‘A lovely collection of short indomitable spirit is most 12 stories about love, loneliness touching and human.’ and spirituality’ Nadiya Independent Hussain
£8.99 £9.99 / $14.95 paperback 198x129mm 224pp paperback 198x129mm 169pp 9781846592119 2018 9781846590108 2006
STREETWISE IN TANGIER MEMOIRS OF A Mohamed Choukri Mohamed Choukri WOMAN DOCTOR Nawal El Saadawi
£9.99 / $14.95 £9.99 / $15.95 £8.99 paperback paperback paperback 198x129mm 224pp 198x129mm 320pp 198x129mm 128pp 9781846590276 2007 9781846590610 2010 9780863566103 2019
ZEINA THE BELT DIARY OF A Nawal El Saadawi Ahmed Abodehman COUNTRY PROSECUTOR Tawfik al-Hakim
£8.99 / $12.95 £7.99 £7.99 / $12.95 paperback paperback 216x135mm paperback 198x129mm 256pp 156pp 216x135mm 135pp 9780863563553 2019 9780863563072 2003 9780863565496 2005
www.saqibooks.com INTERNATIONAL FICTION
ABOUT MY MOTHER Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tender and compelling, About My Mother maps the beautiful, fragile and complex nature of human experience, while paying tribute to a remarkable woman and the bond between mother and son.
‘Morocco’s greatest living author’ The Guardian
‘In any language, in any culture, Tahar Ben Jelloun would be a remarkable novelist’ Sunday Telegraph
9781846592010 July 2016 £8.99 / $16.95 paperback 198x129mm 288pp
LOVE IN THE KINGDOM ISTANBUL ISTANBUL OF OIL Burhan Sönmez Nawal El Saadawi ‘El Saadawi writes with ‘A writer of passion, memory directness and passion’ and heart, Sönmez revives not New York Times only the stories of a land but also its bruised conscience.’ ‘A poignant and brave writer’ Elif Shafak 13 Marie Claire £8.99 / $12.95 paperback 198x129mm 160pp £8.99 9780863566264 2019 paperback 198x129mm 256pp 9781846592058 2016
YOUNG TURK EGYPTIAN EARTH AFSANEH Moris Farhi Abdel Rahman Short Stories by al-Sharqawi Iranian Women Kaveh Basmenji (ed.)
£9.99 £9.99 / $17.95 £9.99 / $17.95 paperback paperback paperback 198x129mm 440pp 216x135mm 251pp 198x129mm 200pp 9781846590283 2007 9780863565137 2005 9780863565724 2005
HIKAYAT QISSAT KAHANI Short Stories by Short Stories by Short Stories by Lebanese Women Palestinian Women Pakistani Women Roseanne Saad Khalaf Jo Glanville (ed.) Aamer Hussein (ed.) (ed.)
£9.99 / $18.95 £9.99 £9.99 / $17.95 paperback paperback paperback 198x129mm 224pp 198x129mm 192pp 198x129mm 170pp 9781846590115 2006 9781846590122 2006 9780863565779 2005
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ARABICITY Contemporary Arab Art Edited by Rose Issa Arabicity reflects on four decades of the aesthetic, conceptual and socio-political concerns of contemporary Arab artists. Beautifully produced, it features over 200 artworks by fifty Arab artists including Bahia Shehab, Ayman Baalbaki, Hassan Hajjaj and Raeda Saadeh, who explore their cultural heritage with humour, visual poetry and great warmth.
These artists challenge the confines of their identity, resisting stereotyping and reshaping the parameters of their cultural traditions. In their diverse media and subject matter, their works reflect the pulse of the region.
9780863566882 August 2019 £19.99 / $27.95 paperback 250x200mm 160pp 200 colour illustrations
KHATT CALLIGRAPHIES Egypt’s Calligraphic OF LOVE Landscape Hassan Massoudy Basma Hamdy & Noha Zayed Inspired by timeless poems from around the world, the Highlighting the history and the calligraphy here takes us on a progression of the Arabic script visual journey through love in 14 in Egypt, this is a rich visual resource, vital for designers, its many forms. artists and enthusiasts.
£25 / $45.99 £10.00 / $14.95 paperback 235x230mm 160pp paperback with flaps 180x140mm 268pp 9780863569012 2018 9780863569050 2017
CONTEMPORARY PALESTINIAN ART KEEP YOUR EYE ON IRANIAN ART From 1850 to the THE WALL New Perspectives Present Palestinian Landscapes Hamid Keshmirshekan Kamal Boullata Olivia Snaije & Mitchell Albert (eds)
£45 / $69.95 £25 / $35.95 £45 / $69.95 hardback paperback with flaps paperback 300x240mm 352pp 270x220mm 368pp 255x196mm 176pp 9780863567216 2013 9780863566486 2009 9780863567599 2013
PALESTINE IN THE THE RISE BLACK AND WHITE CALLIGRAPHER’S OF ISLAMIC Mohammad Sabaaneh GARDEN CALLIGRAPHY Hassan Massoudy Alain George
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REMBRANDT, VERMEER AND THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE Edited by Blaise Ducos & Lara Yeager-Crasselt
This exhibition catalogue presents the finest pieces from one of the most important private collections in the field, The Leiden Collection, New York, alongside a selection from the Louvre’s own holdings.
Alongside Rembrandt, artists such as Jan Lievens, Gerrit Dou, Frans van Mieris, Frans Hals and Johannes Vermeer were prolific during this time. Here, their collective work provides a dazzling glimpse into the Dutch Golden Age.
EN 9780863563218 / FR 9780863563904 March 2019 £35 / $35 hardback 285x240mm 192pp
NABIL ANANI MALIHEH AFNAN Palestine, Land and People Traces, Faces and Places Suleiman Mleahat & Martin Rose Issa (ed.) Mulloy (eds) ‘Maliheh Afnan has faith in time – her time. She is one of Considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary those contemplative artists who Palestinian art movement, this are totally aware of that ‘right 15 is an impressive catalogue of moment’, which she calls the Nabil Anani’s work. moment of grace.’ Lutz Becker £25 / $35 £25 / $39.95 paperback 260x210mm 172pp hardback 286x228mm 178pp 9780863561481 2018 9780863564864 2010
THE ART AND THE ART OF MADI THE ART OF RAWAS LIFE OF CHAOUKI Hussein Madi Conversations with CHAMOUN Nazik Yared Brian Prescott Decie Mohammad Rawas
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