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In this dazzling finale - both of the Ghorba Ghost Story Series and award-winning author Massoud Hayoun's brief career as a novelist - Darf Publishers brings you a Jewish Egyptian Wizard of Oz, radiating "crushed velour and luxury" and "sensuality, once more". Sam Saadoun, not to be confused with the gay Jewish Arab protagonist of Building 46 of the same name, had planned to spend a final night in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn with the last of many lovers. But amid their frolicking through that American immigrant enclave's Post-Soviet attractions, Sam finds himself cast back to the heart of the matter: Alexandria, Egypt in the 1930s. With the biting satire and folly of a Luis Bunuel film and the delicious melancholy of a Beach House ballad, Hayoun offers us a striking last look at the Ghorba Ghost World's longing, love, and lust as well as the political intimacies that have shaped the 21st Century Arab world and North African diaspora. This is a parting glance that is bound to haunt and delight.

Khamila narrates her experience as a young woman living in Sur, a city which quickly transforms from a rich trading centre into a place of fear and murder at the hands of extremist oppressors.

Sam Saadoun, a closeted Jewish-Arab from Los Angeles, travels to Beijing to study. He is in pursuit of a romantic gay dream, desperate to escape the United States. When he arrives he is harassed by shadowy characters. All the while a disturbing murder mystery is unfolding in the halls of the university's most curious building.

Jabra's debut novel, first published in 1955 and called by Edward Said "one of the principal successes of Arabic artistic prose and drama," introduced stream of consciousness, flashback and interior monologue to the Arabic novel and set the stage for the outpouring of modern Arabic prose that followed.

Short-stories from a revered Libyan philosopher and writer Sadeq Naihoum who, although virtually unknown in the Western world, was a leading figure in Libyan literary circles and instrumental in the ongoing creative revolution against political repression.

Kuwaiti children's author Lateefa Buti's well-crafted and beautifully illustrated Hatless encourages children to think independently and challenge traditions with innovation and creativity.

In this landmark volume of short essays, a group of 17 distinguished lawyers, politicians, economists, journalists and military experts look back at the failure and promise of the Libyan revolution, ten years on. The goal of the book is to add context and innovation to a hyper-politicized space.

This book is an illuminating eye-opener about the recent political history of a region that continues to suffer from grave paucity of material for the purpose of scholarship. Regardless of Southern Arabia's past greatness and current significance and strategic importance to the world at large, so little is known.

Chorin provides a unique insight into the circumstances that sparked the 2011 Libyan revolution, and explains how the 2012 Benghazi attack triggered a years-long civil war, a schizophrenic peace process, and an American retreat, while creating openings for Islamists and authoritarian regimes to reincarnate epic narratives and undermine their foes.

Paul's friends think he's really cool. They don't know why, he just is. But when he gets bored of being a vegetarian, his experimental diet could be step too far for the other giraffes. This is a story about being yourself - and being yourself comfortably.

On the outskirts of Tokyo stands a modest European style house. There a woman named Taki has worked as a maidservant in the house and lived with its owners, the Hirai family. Now, near the end of her life, Taki is writing down in a notebook her nostalgic memories of the time spent living in the house.

This is the story of a dot that got bored of sitting in the same place for ages without anything to do. So, it got up and started moving around. And that's when the fun started... Through charming illustrations and a sharp storyline, Hajo explores how the universe is constructed from dots, lines and shapes, and how they are harmoniously connected.

This is the story of Nour, a little girl who didn't have a family or a home. She lived on the street somewhere far away and long ago. Sadly, when you're the main character in a book, you can't escape from your story and go off and find a happier life. Or can you?This enchanting tale teaches children about the limitlessness of the imagination.

When a dog and a rat find a flat rabbit, they decide to move her off the road. But where can they take her? After much thought and consideration, they decide to give the rabbit a proper send off. They say goodbye and give the rabbit a beautiful gift - seeing the world from a new perspective.

When one dog catches eye of another dog's bone, all he wants is a bone of his own. But what happens when he gets a bigger, juicier bone? In this hilarious picture book for all ages, Oskarsson uses subtle movement and expressions to explore feelings of jealousy, greed and anger.

The rabbits skip, hop and play in the finest, softest and greenest grass in the country. But the dogs chase the rabbits so they come up with a plan to get rid of them. There's just one problem... Once the dogs disappear, the grass is no longer so fine, soft or green. This award-winning story is about living alongside others, even if they annoy us.

Provides one of the first complete and historically accurate popular accounts of this period in Spanish history.

Provides an introduction to ancient Egypt.

Bardur Oskarsson's latest fable teaches yet another invaluable lesson on life's misgivings.

Dog, Cat and Mouse live peacefully alongside one another. Then suddenly, things turn a little chaotic...

A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck.

This book, translated from Arabic, is a description of cultural life and beauty as experienced by Ibn Buttuta during his travels throughout the Muslim world at the beginning of the 14th century.

Leila is the new girl in Max's class in rural Germany, and they soon become close friends. She has fled Syria with her family, having left her grandmother and father behind. Her most cherished object is a walnut from her grandmother's garden. Leila is desperately sad when she loses her walnut and, in a failed attempt, sets out to return to Syria.

The Afghan Wars of 1839-1842 and 1878-1880 were the direct result of Russian and British Imperial designs for the expansions of the respective spheres of influence. Archibald Forbes' book is a recognised scholarly history of those wars.

Written at the beginning of the century, this work retains the ability to life the reader upon a magic carpet ride into the wonder of the orient. As the author informs us it is a 'tale of adventures, exploits and love.'