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Biographies & Memoirs
In English, a variety of touching memoirs and exciting biographies.
| Ambivalence (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 7468 By: Jonathan Garfinkel Topic: Memoir Abstract: Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide (En). This provocative memoir chronicles Garfinkel's travels in Israel and Palestine and his journey away from a Zionist education in Toronto. | |
$23.95 | See More or Order > |
| Asmahan's Secrets, Woman, War and Song | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 6422 By: Sherifa Zuhur Topic: Biography Abstract: The great Arab singer Asmahan was the toast of Cairo song and cinema in the 1930's, as World War II approached. This story will provide glimpses also into aspects of the cultural and political history of Egypt and Syria between the two world wars. By: Sherifa Zuhur | |
$28.00 | See More or Order > |
| Baghdad Diaries 1991-2002 (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4577 By: Nuha al Radi Topic: Memoir Abstract: This is a recent book about Iraq that describes it as a real country. Excellent entries by Nuha al-Radi. | |
$14.95 | See More or Order > |
| Beirut, I Love You (En) | |
| Hardcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 10678 By: Zena El Khalil Topic: Memoir Abstract: A memoir by Zena El Khalil. This is the story of Zena, a young woman who has fallen under the spell of a city that threatens to engulf her in war, grief and love affairs. | |
$20.00 | See More or Order > |
| Darkness To Sunlight - The Life-Changing Journey of Zaid Abdul-Aziz (Don Smith, En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5754 By: Zaid Abdul-Aziz Topic: Memoir Abstract: Memoir in the Arabic language. By: Zaid Abdul-Aziz | |
$22.95 | See More or Order > |
| For Bread Alone (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4550 By: Mohamed Choukri Topic: Memoir Abstract: Choukri's classic and moving work speaks for an entire generation of North Africans. This is a true document of human desperation. | |
$11.00 | See More or Order > |
| From Baghdad to Bedlam: An Immigrant's Tale (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 6627 By: Maged Kadar Topic: Biography or Memoir Abstract: Maged's recollections are filled with a deep affection for his Iraqi and British homes. He struggles to reconcile the gap between the two… | |
$14.95 | See More or Order > |
| Harun al-Rashid and the World of Thousand and One Nights (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4582 By: Andre Clot Topic: Biography Abstract: The legend of Harun al-Rashid and the world of the thousand and one nights. By: Andre Clot | |
$18.95 | See More or Order > |
| Imam Shahid Hasan al Banna | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5962 By: S.M. Hasan al Banna Topic: Biography Abstract: From Birth to Martyrdom By: S.M. Hasan al Banna | |
$5.50 | See More or Order > |
| In Tangier | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 11709 By: Mohamed Choukri Topic: Memoirs-Literature Abstract: To Mohamed Choukri, Tangier was the most extraordinary and mysterious city in the world. No less extraordinary was Choukri, who taught himself to read and write at the age of twenty after a childhood of poverty and petty crime. A haven for many western writers in the tewntieth century, Tangier drew | |
$15.95 | See More or Order > |
| Journey To Makkah (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5753 By: Murad Hofmann Topic: Autobiography Abstract: Journey to Makkah is much more than an account of the author's pilgrimages to the holy places of Islam, Makkah, and Madinah By: Murad Hofmann | |
$9.95 | See More or Order > |
| Journeys of a Sufi Musician (w/CD) (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5865 By: Kudsi Erguner Topic: Memoir Abstract: Softcover book with a audio CD. By: Kudsi Erguner | |
$21.95 | See More or Order > |
| Kahlil Gibran, A Nonpareil Artist (En) - Out of Stock | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 7038 By: Dr. Joseph Habib Helou Topic: Biography Abstract: An original and profound biographical study, includes full pages of Gibran artwork and sketches. By: Dr. Joseph Habib Helou | |
$24.50 | See More or Order > |
| Kahlil Gibran: A Biography (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 10745 By: Alexandre Najjar, Translated by Rae Azkoul Topic: Biography Abstract: Translated from the French, a biography by Alexandre Najjar. Najjar examines Gibran's letters, his publisher's archives and unpublished documents, revealing the extent of his influence and the extraordinary message of peace and hope in all of his work. | |
$14.95 | See More or Order > |
| Leaving Beirut (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 7625 By: Mai Ghoussoub Topic: Memoir Abstract: As a tribute to Mai Ghoussoub, who died suddenly on 17 February 2007, Saqi reprinted her memoir, 'Leaving Beirut' in April 2007, which has been received with critical acclaim. | |
$14.95 | See More or Order > |
| Nasser, The Final Years (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5751 By: Abdel Magid Farid Topic: Biography Abstract: This book consists largely of records of meetings between President Nasser of Egypt and various world figures from June 22, 1967, following the Arab-Israeli war, to September 22, 1970, the day before Nasser died. By: Abdel Magid Farid | |
$22.00 | See More or Order > |
| Prominent Women from Central Arabia (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 7857 By: Dalal Mukhlid al Harbi Topic: Biography Abstract: The book contains fifty-two biographies of women who lived from the beginning of the eighteenth century to mid-twentieth century. By: Dalal Mukhlid al Harbi | |
$28.00 | See More or Order > |
| Sarajevo Rose - A Balkan Jewish Notebook (En) | |
| Hardcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5775 By: Stephen Schwartz Topic: Memoir Abstract: Tracing the movements of the Sephardic Jews to the Balkans - following their expulsion from Spain during the Inquisition By: Stephen Schwartz | |
$30.00 | See More or Order > |
| Streetwise (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 10725 By: Mohamed Choukri Topic: Autobiography Abstract: An autobiographical work. At the age of twenty Mohamed Choukri takes the momentous decision to learn to read and write...'Choukri's irrepressible, ultimately indomitable spirit is most touching and human.' The Independent | |
$14.95 | See More or Order > |
| Suleiman the Magnificent (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4581 By: Andre Clot Topic: Biography Abstract: About the life and achievements of Suleiman the Magnificent, in the English language. By: Andre Clot | |
$29.95 | See More or Order > |
| Teta, Mother and Me (An Arab Woman's Memoir) (En) | |
| Hardcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5750 By: Jean Said Makdisi Topic: Memoir Abstract: In this moving memoir Jean Said Makdisi lovingly chronicles the unsung private histories of three generations of women in her family. | |
$28.95 | See More or Order > |
| The Days | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 6432 By: Taha Hussein Topic: Autobiography Abstract: Taha Hussein, His Autobiography in Three Parts. | |
$15.00 | See More or Order > |
| The Glory of Iqbal (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4450 By: Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi Topic: Biography Abstract: The glory of Iqbal is great work on the life of M. Iqbal and very thought provoking with much commentary on some of his most famous poetry. By: Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi | |
$10.95 | See More or Order > |
| The Life of Saladin (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5831 By: Sir Hamilton Gibb Topic: Biography Abstract: A compact, coherent and intensely sympathetic reconstruction of one of the heroes of Islam.' - from the foreword by Robert Irwin. By: Sir Hamilton Gibb | |
$14.95 | See More or Order > |
| The Road To Mecca (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5776 By: Mumammad Asad Topic: Autobiography Abstract: The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad is not a travelogue one picks up to read about the conditions of the people and landscape of a country in the distant past; it is an absorbing personal saga of a man's 'home-coming' to Islam, the religion of his 'fitrah' (nature). | |
$17.95 | See More or Order > |
| The Sunburnt Queen - A True Story (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5866 By: Hazel Crampton Topic: Biography Abstract: In the late 1730s, an unknown English East Indiaman smashed to pieces on the reefs of Lambasi Bay on South Africa's Wild Coast. By: Hazel Crampton | |
$19.95 | See More or Order > |
| With Borges (En) | |
| Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5855 By: Alberto Manguel Topic: Memoir Abstract: Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes By: Alberto Manguel | |
$11.95 | See More or Order > |
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