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The Dark Side of Love Shortlisted for the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and a Finalist of the 2009 ForeWord Magazine Fiction Award. A story of forbidden love set against the background of Arabic culture and endless feuds between clans. An international bestseller available for the first time in English. |
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2010-01-04 9781906697242 Paperback World except Middle East and North America Arabia Books Price: £7.99 |
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Before the Throne In this extraordinary drama-in-dialogue, Naguib Mahfouz reveals his love for all of Egypt’s extensive history—and his deep knowledge of it. In Before the Throne, he summons nearly sixty of Egypt’s rulers to the afterlife Court of Osiris, from a king who unified Egypt for the first time, around 3000 BC, to a president assassinated by religious extremists in 1981. |
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2009-12-01 9789774162916 Paperback World Arabia Books Price: £13.60 |
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The Dark Side of Love A story of forbidden love set against the background of Arabic culture and endless feuds between clans. An international bestseller available for the first time in English. |
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2009-11-01 978-1-906697-10-5 Hardback World except Middle East and North America Arabia Books Price: £14.39 |
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The Hashish Waiter Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gathers regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeem’s den. The den is the centre of their lives, both a refuge and a stimulus, and at the centre of the den is the remarkable man who keeps their hashish bowls topped up—Saleh Bedlam. |
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2009-11-01 9789774163005 Hardback World Arabia Books Price: £15.20 |
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Papa Sartre After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country’s intellectuals to Sartre’s thought, he feels especially qualified by his physical resemblance to the philosopher (except for the crossed eyes) and by his marriage to Germaine, who he claims is the great man’s cousin. Meanwhile, his wealth and family prestige guarantee him an idle life spent in drinking, debauchery, and frequenting a well-known nightclub. |
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2009-11-01 9789774162895 Hardback World Arabia Books Price: £13.60 |