Literary Arts

S.K. AliPaperback, 336 pages9781481499255   There are three kinds of people in my world:   1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward...

Sukina NoorPaperback, 92 pages9781399935043 Love and Longing: Yearning for the Face of God, Sukina Noor’s debut poetry collection encapsulates the ...

Sonallah IbrahimHardback, 200 pages9780857429803   A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of...

Hussein BarghouthiHardback, 154 pages9780857428967   A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the...

Marmaduke PickthallPaperback9781912356058   Oriental Encounters is the best introduction to Pickthall’s work, a fictionalised account of his experi...

Khaled Hosseini Paperback 9781526604743   Amir and Hassan grow up together in Kabul. Amir in the beautiful house his father built, filled with marb...

Geert Jan van GelderPaperback, 496 pages9780814738269   A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Ara...

Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Hardback, 128 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479877928   Written in mid-sevent...

Ahmad Ibn Fadlan James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 108 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899890   The earliest surviving instance of sustai...

Abu Zayd al-SirafiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 124 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479830596   The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed...

Muhammad al-MuwaylihiRoger Allen (translation)Paperback, 524 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840915   Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cair...

Hanna DiyabElias Muhanna (translation)Paperback, 468 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820016   The adventures of the man who created Aladdin   The B...

Yusuf al-Shirbini and Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 380 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479829668   Satires of...

Yusuf al-ShirbiniHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 320 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840212   Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt   W...

Hmedan al-Shewe'irMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 206 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479885169   Satirical verse on society and its hypocr...

ʿAbdallāh ibn SbayyilMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 328 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804405   Scenes from Arabian life at the turn o...

Kamila ShamsiePaperback, 336 pages9781526647719   Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the un...

Lydiawati MZ Paperback, 264 pages 9789811852015   When Lydiawati Mz caught her son, Muaz, standing enthralled in front of a restaurant kitchen by t...

Sabaa TahirPaperback, 384 pages9780593202364 Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged mat...

Nadia WassefPaperback, 240 pages9781472156853   The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled bet...

Sonny Bill WilliamsPaperback, 336 pages9781529387889 In this powerful, open and honest memoir, Sonny Bill shares the triumphs and missteps of his e...

Zoulfa KatouhPaperback, 448 pages9781526648549 New Paperback edition with new short story included   'Hauntingly beautiful ... a must read' - Huda ...

Al-HaririMichael Cooperson (translation)Paperback, 542 pages9781479810567   Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award   Fifty rogue’s tales translated f...

Karina Robles BahrinPaperback, 232 pages9789814984676   Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix, her family's billion-ringgit company kno...