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Houses Behind the Trees
By: Mohamed Elbisatie

Beyout Wara’ al-Ashgar Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies into English ( University of Texas Press) Also translated into Italian by Blanca Longhi (Sperling-Kupfer) Into French by Edwige Lambert ( Actes Sud)


نقرات الظباء
By: Miral Eltahawi

تصوغ الروائية المصرية ميرال الطحاوى فى روايتها نقرات الظباء سيرة ذاتية أنثوية من نمط خاص، متخذة من الأنثروبيولوجى والتاريخى والسياسى والثقافى، أدوات فنية لرسم وقائع وأحداث جرت على طرف الصحراء موطن البداوة. الصحراء تمث...


Hatchepsut - The Woman Pharoah
By: Fawzia Assaad

Hatchepsut the Woman Pharaoh A hybrid of legend and biography by Dr.Fawzia Assaad Book published originally in French by Guethner Arabic translation published by National Center for Translation in 2003


A Certain Woman
By: Hala El-Badry

The Arabic original of this novel published by Dar Hilal in 2001 was our book of the month for March 2003.


Yacoubian Building
By: Alaa El-Aswani

English version AUC press 2004 The original Arabic novel published by Merit 2002 was our book of the month selection in January 2003. This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruptio...


The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
By: Emile Habibi

First published by Dar al-Hilal in Arabic. The story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggres...


Agamyste
By: Mohamed Tawfik

A collection of short stories - Cairo- Dar el-Fikr el-Arabi 1997 136 pages Three of the stories are part of the English collection The Day the Moon Fell published 1996


The Day the Moon Fell
By: Mohamed Tawfik

Translated by A. Amin Cairo- Dar el-Fikr el-Arabi 1997 collection of short stories 176 pages Both Arabic and English versions of the short story "The Day the Moon Fell" were studied in 1989 by Students of Compa...