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Norah Jones (geb. 1979)

Day Breaks

Norah Jones entdeckt das Piano wieder Vier Jahre ist es her, dass Norah Jones ihr letztes Soloalbum veröffentlichte, drei seit ihrer Kollaboration mit Green-Day-Frontmann Billie Joe Armstrong. Mit »Day Br…

Race and Slavery in the Middle East

"A must read for any social historian of the region."-The American Historical Review The individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperbackIn the ninet…

Emanuela Anechoum,

Tangerinn

"Italian literature has been waiting years for a novel like this."--Vincenzo Latronico, author of PerfectionA luminous debut about the search for belonging, the tension between departure and ret…

Oren Kessler,

Palästina 1936

1936: Das Jahr, als im Nahen Osten die Gewalt ausbrach. Nur wer die Wurzeln des Nahostkonflikts kennt, kann die Krise besser verstehenIm Frühjahr 1936 brach im Heiligen Land eine arabische Rebellion gegen…

Abdellah Taia,

Living in Your Light

A story in praise of a woman, a fighter, a survivor from the award-winning French-Moroccan novelist known for humanizing North Africa's otherwise marginalized characters---prostitutes and thieves, trans a…

Sara Hashem

The Jasad Crown

"Held deep in a mountain refuge, Sylvia has been captured by the Urabi, who believe the Jasad Heir can return their homeland to its former power. But after years of denying her legacy and a forbidden…

Said Khatibi,

The End of the Sahara

On an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an unnamed Algerian city, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zaza Zaghouani, a stunning nightclub singer who left her hometown seeking a …

Radwa Ashour,

Granada

"It is 1492, and the keys to Granada, the last Muslim state in the Spanish Peninsula, have been handed over to the Christian king and queen: the final vestiges of Islamic rule in Europe are swept awa…

Amara Lakhous,

The Fertility of Evil

A criminal investigation plumbs the seedy underbelly of Oran in this heady psychological thriller spanning the history of postcolonial Algeria.Oran, July 5, 2018. Algerian Independence Day. Colonel Soltan…

A Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Middle East and Asia

"There has been a good deal of ink spilled about Asian ties with the Middle East, but there is no better source than this book to understand the important role that huge sovereign wealth funds play i…

Riad Sattouf,

The End of the Arab of the Future

Riad is a teenager growing up in the French region of Brittany, where he lives with his mother and brother and attends high school in Rennes. But his adolescence is anything but typical. Born to a Syrian …

Fatma Qandil,

Empty Cages

""The discovery of an old tin of chocolates, its contents long ago devoured, marks the entry into this intimate story that reaches back through a lifetime of memories in search of self and home.…

Fatma Qandil,

Empty Cages

Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature"Few writers possess Fatma's boldness"---The New ArabAn urgent and raw confessional of memory and family and all that is lost and won in one woma…

Youssef Rakha

The Dissenters

A transgressive novel by an acclaimed writer that spans seventy years of Egyptian history

Naguib Mahfouz,

I Found Myself

I found myself in our old house in El Abbassiya, visiting my mother. She received me with perplexing indifference and then left the room. I assumed she'd gone to make coffee, but she never returned. [Drea…

Amira Ghenim,

A Calamity of Noble Houses

A finalist for the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a compelling saga of two families that illuminates the lives of women in modern TunisiaTunisia, 1930s. Against the backdrop of a country in …

Frank Wess (1922-2013)

North, South, East... Wess And No Count

Norah Jones (geb. 1979)

Day Breaks (SHM-SACD)

Norah Jones entdeckt das Piano wieder Vier Jahre ist es her, dass Norah Jones ihr letztes Soloalbum veröffentlichte, drei seit ihrer Kollaboration mit Green-Day-Frontmann Billie Joe Armstrong. Mit »Day Br…

Vered Sakal

Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria

A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman to French-liberal-colonial politics.