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Talk of Darkness

Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

The gripping memoir of a Moroccan human rights and women’s rights activist.

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I've Learned Some Things

Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

An English-Turkish bilingual volume of poetry by one of Turkey’s most celebrated poets.

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Fortune Told in Blood

Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

A prominent Iranian author writes about the Iran-Iraq War—from the Iraqi point of view.

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Siraaj

An Arab Tale

By Radwa Ashour; Translated by Barbara Romaine
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

A novella by a popular Egyptian writer that explores the struggle against tyrannical oppression, set in the rich cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Women on a Journey

Between Baghdad and London

University of Texas Press

A novel by a Kurdish-Iraqi writer that gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women’s experiences of political repression, violence, exile, and the yearning for peace.

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Orpheus

By Nazli Eray; Translated by Robert Finn; Introduction by Sibel Erol
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

The first English translation of a novel by popular Turkish writer Nazli Eray.

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The Director and Other Stories from Morocco

By Leila Abouzeid; Introduction by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea; Translated by Leila Abouzeid
University of Texas Press

New stories about modern Morocco and its people by critically acclaimed author Leila Abouzeid.

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Folktales from Syria

By Samir Tahhan; Translated by Andrea Rugh; Introduction by Andrea Rugh; Illustrated by Douglas Rugh
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

Syrian poet Samir Tahhan collected folktales from old men sitting outside their houses in Aleppo, drinking tea.

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Whatever Happened to Antara?

And Other Stories

Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

Short stories from a Syrian writer.

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Children of the Waters

By Ibtihal Salem; Translated by Marilyn Booth
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

This collection of Ibtihal Salem's writing provides an excellent forum for studying both everyday life in Egypt and current literary experimentation in the Middle East.

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They Die Strangers

Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

A novella and thirteen short stories by this distinguished Yemeni writer, dealing with the common experiences of Yemenis like himself who are caught between cultures by the displacements of civil war or labor migration.

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Passage to Dusk

By Rashid al-Daif; Translated by Nirvana Tanoukhi; Introduction by Anton Shammas
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

This novel deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s in a postmodern, poetic style.

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Return to Childhood

The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman

Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

A noted Moroccan writer's memoir of her childhood during Morocco's struggle for independence.

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No Rattling of Sabers

An Anthology of Israeli War Poetry

Translated by Esther Raizen
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

Hebrew poetry written in response to the wars in which Israel was involved during the last fifty years.

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The Waiting List

An Iraqi Woman's Tales of Alienation

By Daisy Al-Amir; Translated by Barbara McKean Parmenter; Introduction by Mona Mikhail
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

Set in Iraq, Cyprus, and Lebanon, these stories shed light on an unusual Middle East refugee experience--that of a cultural refugee, a divorced woman who is educated, affluent, and alone.

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