The Coffeehouse


by Naguib Mahfouz

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Price: £13.60

Cairo Swan Song

A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt
by Mekkawi Said

Cairo, Mother of the World, embraces millions—but some of her children make their home in the streets, junked up and living in the shadows of wealth, among the monuments that the tourists flock to see. Mustafa, a former student radical who never believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story, but he has to rely on the help of his American girlfriend, Marcia, who he is not sure he can trust.

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Price: £7.19

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.

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Price: £6.99

The Theocrat

A Modern Arabic Novel from Morocco
by Bensalem Himmich

The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history’s most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah (“the ruler by order of God”), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions as a whole and of the conflicts within his own mind.

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Price: £6.40

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.

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Price: £14.39