The Quarter: Stories, Hardcover - Naguib Mahfouz

DescriptionMeet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and ta...

In these essays Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after Honsi Mu...

In these essays Naguib Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament, and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after ...

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Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapi...

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now avai...

Nobel winning author, Naguib Mahfouz's late-translated novella, Heart of the Night is now available for the first time in paperback Jaafar Ibrahim ...

Reducere. From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels--published in an omnibus edition for the first time--that form an ancient-Egyptian...

Reducere. In this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of ...

This highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attenti...

Reducere. The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written inhis own imaginative, spe...

This is a sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted chan...

Filled with compelling drama, earthy humour and remarkable insight, this book traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Say...

The Quarter and the Dollar is a children's book for ages four and up that deals with issues of bullying, self-esteem, and acceptance. It can be use...

Reducere. Over 100 illustrations describe the building styles of each historical era and highlight some 60 buildings of particular importance.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Text by (Art/Photo Books): Jim FraiserPhotographer: West FreemanThere is no place in America like New Orleans's famed French Quarte...

A collection of funny, rhyming poetry about the struggles you face in your twenties. Based on the popular Tumblr and Instagram feeds of the same na...

Walking through the French Quarter can overwhelm the senses--and the imagination. The experience is much more meaningful with knowledge of the area...

Reducere. Raised in a world of drugs, pain, and having to become a man before time. Two and a Quarter is going to take you on a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, stree...

Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz grew up with am...

Reducere. With Keira finding death on her door, she is suddenly plunged into a world of the unknown and has to face it alone... Or does she? Soon this new li...

Reducere. High School Poet Turn Twenty-Something Women Trying To Survive Here are my stories.

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Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Veronica G. HenryNumber of pages: 288Collection: Mambo ReinaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 209 x 28...

Publisher: American University in Cairo PressAuthor(s): Mohamed ShoairTranslator: Humphrey DaviesNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

A powerful meditation on the influence of the British Empire in the Middle East, intertwining history, politics, poetry, myth and personal experien...

Reducere. Right now, a country halfway around the world is using forgotten American ideas to deliver the world's best healthcare at a quarter of the price of...

Publisher: Out-Spoken PressAuthor(s): Sabrina MahfouzPublication date: 2016Dimensions: 225 x 139 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera fa...

A powerful meditation on the influence of the British Empire in the Middle East, intertwining history, politics, poetry, myth and personal experien...

Reducere. Author Claude "Paradise" Gray was raised in the South Bronx. He was cofounder of the X Clan, whose 1990 album To the East, Blackwards is an Afrocen...

A new, paperback edition of the first book to tell the remarkable story of London's Docklands

Reducere. Revisiting the forest Hansel and Gretel stumble into, The Witch Tells the Story and Makes It True drifts between narrative and incantation, as the ...

A GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, this stunning collection of new and classic poems from around the world celebrates the diversity of li...

Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love - of a place...

At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies th...

Description"A vivid, unforgettable picture of the quality--or lack of it--of life in England among 'ordinary' people."--Peter Stansky.About the Aut...

Reducere. Home to the notorious "Blue Book, " which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light d...