By: Jalaluddin Rumi

An earlier edition of this collection was our book of the month in October 2003 14th-century Sufi bard Rumi, would feel as overwhelmed as the rest of us when trying to pick out just the right collection of his translated...

By: Mohamed Elbisatie

By: Mohamed Elbisatie

Beyout Wara’ al-Ashgar Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies into English ( University of Texas Press) Also translated into Italian by Blanca Longhi (Sperling-Kupfer) Into French by Edwige Lambert ( Actes Sud)

By: Miral Eltahawi

تصوغ الروائية المصرية ميرال الطحاوى فى روايتها نقرات الظباء سيرة ذاتية أنثوية من نمط خاص، متخذة من الأنثروبيولوجى والتاريخى والسياسى والثقافى، أدوات فنية لرسم وقائع وأحداث جرت على طرف الصحراء موطن البداوة. الصحراء تمث...

By: Fawzia Assaad

Hatchepsut the Woman Pharaoh A hybrid of legend and biography by Dr.Fawzia Assaad Book published originally in French by Guethner Arabic translation published by National Center for Translation in 2003

By: Mahmoud Darwish

By: Hala El-Badry

The Arabic original of this novel published by Dar Hilal in 2001 was our book of the month for March 2003.

By: Alaa El-Aswani

English version AUC press 2004 The original Arabic novel published by Merit 2002 was our book of the month selection in January 2003. This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruptio...

By: Emile Habibi

First published by Dar al-Hilal in Arabic. The story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggres...

By: Mohamed Tawfik

A collection of short stories - Cairo- Dar el-Fikr el-Arabi 1997 136 pages Three of the stories are part of the English collection The Day the Moon Fell published 1996