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  • May082008
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    The Ice People

    It’s the middle of the twenty-first century and the ‘new white world’ of the European Ice Age is upon us.…

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  • May032008
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    Modern Arabic Short Stories

    The twelve stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In…

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    A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature

    Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a…

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    The Ministry of Pain

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE No going back, no moving forward: in the aftermath of the Balkan wars…

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  • Sep012007
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    Black Britain

    Black people have inhabited the British Isles for centuries. Eminent professor Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social…

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    Jamilia

    Jamilia’s husband is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor…

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  • Mar012007
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    No Word From Gurb

    A shape-shifting extraterrestrial named Gurb has assumed the form of Madonna and disappeared in Barcelona’s backstreets. His commanding officer and…

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  • Aug012006
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    Simple Arabic

    Simple Arabic aims to make learning Arabic as easy and simple as possible. Assuming no previous knowledge of the language,…

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  • Jul302006
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    All My Friends Are Superheroes

    All Tom’s friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding the Perfectionist is…

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  • May252006
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    My Cleaner

    Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking…

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  • Mar242006
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    The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

    European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years…

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  • Feb102006
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    The Arabic Alphabet

    Ever larger numbers of people are starting to learn Arabic, while even more have some contact with the Arab world.…

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