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Words Without Borders eBook Series

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  • Tablet & Pen

    Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East

    Edited by Reza Aslan ...
    Series series Words Without Borders
    A Words Without Borders Anthology"Remarkable . . . a triumph . . . connects us at the level of our humanity, no matter where we may be from."— Los Angeles TimesThe countries that stretch along the broad horizons of the Middle East—from Morocco to Iran, from Turkey to Pakistan—boast different cultures, different languages, and different religions. Yet the literary landscape of this dynamic part of ... Read more

    $20.87 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Beyond Fundamentalism

    Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

    by Reza Aslan ...
    “A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism” (The Washington Post) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer“[A] thoughtful analysis of America’s War on Terror.”—The New YorkerThe wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attac. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Stoning of Soraya M.

    A Story of Injustice in Iran

    by Freidoune Sahebjam ...
    Translated by Richard Seaver ...
    Soraya M.’s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn’t afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya’s dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was cooking for a friend’s widowed husband. Exhausted by a lifetime of abuse and hardship, Soraya said ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Behind the Veil

    by Shahzad Rizvi ...
    A spirited Indian woman falls in love with a writer she's never met, refusing all other suitors. When he appears, he's nothing like she'd dreamed. Her life with him is hell; his vanity and treachery nearly destroy her. She begins an affair with a handsome teacher, threatening her family's honor. Rashida's story unfolds against a sweeping backdrop of Indian history. ... Read more

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  • Journey from the Land of No

    A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

    by Roya Hakakian ...
    An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran“An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold BloomRoya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Strange Times, My Dear

    The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature

    Edited by Nahid Mozaffari, Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak ...
    When Arcade Publishing originally contracted this extraordinary collection of poetry and literature, the Department of the Treasury was attempting to censor the publication of works from countries on America’s “enemies list.” Arcade, along with the PEN American Center, the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and the Association of American University ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Rumi: Bridge to the Soul

    Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart

    by Coleman Barks ...
    Originally released in 2007, "Year of Rumi," to coincide with the poet's 800th birthday, by the pre-eminent Rumi poet Coleman Barks.In Rumi: Bridge to the Soul,Coleman Barks—who holds an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his decades-long translations of Rumi—has collected and translated ninety new poems, most of them never published before in any ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Mind at Peace

    by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar ...
    Translated by Erdag Goknar ...
    A “masterpiece . . . one of the 20th century’s notable literary love stories and cultural watersheds”—from Turkey’s most influential writers (Los Angeles Times)A young man comes-of-age in a rapidly-changing Istanbul circa the 1930s, grappling with childhood trauma but finding relief in literature, family, and love“The greatest novel ever written about Istanbul.” —Orhan PamukSurviving the childhood ... Read more

    $24.47 CAD

  • The Storyteller's Daughter

    One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

    by Saira Shah ...
    Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born in London, your family in exile, and that you have never seen Afghanistan in peacetime.These are but the starting points of Saira Shah’s memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably ... Read more

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  • Sitt Marie Rose

    by Etel Adnan ...
    Fiction. Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege, SITT MARIE ROSE is an extraordinary novel on the Civil War in Lebanon. A small press bestseller, now in its ninth edition, it is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the civil war in Lebanon. Already a classic of war literature, it won the France-Pays Arabes award in Paris and has been translated into ten languages. It has been ... Read more

    $9.08 CAD

  • Maps

    A Novel

    by Nuruddin Farah ...
    Series series The Blood in the Sun Trilogy
    Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Palace in the Old Village

    by Tahar Ben Jelloun ...
    From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD