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Zealot
Read moreSifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic figures by…
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Sex and Punishment
Read moreSex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour:…
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The Calligrapher’s Garden
Read moreHassan Massoudy’s elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter and the fading…
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Sabra Zoo
Read moreWINNER OF THE 2011 COMMONWEALTH WRITER’S PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK Summer 1982: Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan’s parents…
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A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories
Read moreThis reader consists of the full Arabic texts of eleven short stories by established Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian and Jordanian writers.…
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Beyond the Veil
Read moreDoes Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi…
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The Arabs and the Holocaust
Read moreThe Arab–Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle East battlefields. There is also a war of narratives…
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Unspeakable Love
Read moreHomosexuality is a taboo subject in the Arab world. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers write cryptically…
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The Old Man and His Sons
Read moreThese are the Faroe Islands as they were some fifty years ago: sea-washed and remote, with one generation still tied…
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Political Journeys
Read moreFred Halliday always combined the broad sweep of modern history, its currents and ideas, with a profound knowledge of modern…
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Shake Off
Read moreLondon 1989: Michel is an undercover PLO operative hooked on painkillers and posing as a student. He is tasked by…
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I Killed Scheherazade
Read moreJoumana Haddad is angry about the way Arab women are portrayed in the West. In I Killed Scheherazade she challenges…
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