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Celebrating the forthcoming publication of The Calligrapher's Secret
The new novel from the acclaimed Syrian writer Rafik Schami.

The Dark Side of Love has been shortlisted for the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Arabia Books has published acclaimed Syrian novelist Rafik Schami's The Dark Side of Love

Naguib Mahfouz Medal For Literature Announced


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Learning English
A Modern Arabic Novel from Lebanon

Learning English

A Modern Arabic Novel from Lebanon
by Rachid Al-Daif

No matter how hard Rachid tries to recreate himself, to become educated and wordly – to ‘learn English’ – it is impossible for this hip Beiruti with his cell phone and high-speed internet to sever the connection to his past in the Lebanese village of Zgharta, know for its ‘tough guys’ and old-fashioned clan mentality.

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  2009-10-01
  9781906697211
  Paperback
  UK
  Arabia Books, New Titles

Price: £6.40


B as in Beirut
A Modern Arabic Novel from Lebanon

B as in Beirut

A Modern Arabic Novel from Lebanon
by Iman Humaydan Younes

The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war.

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  2009-10-01
  9781906697204
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  UK
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Price: £7.19


Cities Without Palms

Cities Without Palms


by Tarek Eltayeb

The debut novel from a rising Sudanese writer, 'Cities Without Palms' tells the tale of young man who leaves his native village in Sudan and sets out alone to seek work in the city, in order to save his mother and two sisters from famine and disease.

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  2009-06-01
  978-1-906697-12-9
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  UK & Commonwealth
  Arabia Books, New Titles

Price: £5.59