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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 |
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Learning English 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 Price: £6.40 |
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B as in Beirut 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 Paperback UK Arabia Books Price: £7.19 |
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Like a Summer Never to be Repeated 'Like a Summer Never to be Repeated' is a fascinating and highly experimental story, set in Cairo and based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a student and visiting intellectual. |
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2009-07-01 978-977-416-246-6 Hardback UK & Commonwealth AUC Fiction - Distributed Titles Price: £13.60 |