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The Dark Side of Love
A Modern Arabic Novel from Syria

The Dark Side of Love

A Modern Arabic Novel from Syria
by Rafik Schami

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: £6.99


The Dark Side of Love

The Dark Side of Love


by Rafik Schami

Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010. 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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  2010-01-01
  978-1-906697-24-2
  Paperback
  World except Middle East and North America
  Arabia Books

Price: £8.00


Before the Throne
A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt

Before the Throne

A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt
by Naguib Mahfouz

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


The Dark Side of Love
A Modern Arabic Novel from Syria

The Dark Side of Love

A Modern Arabic Novel from Syria
by Rafik Schami

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.

read more »

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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


The Hashish Waiter
A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt

The Hashish Waiter

A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt
by Khairy Shalaby

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