The American University in Cairo Press - Fiction in Translation

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The Woman from Tantoura: A Palestinian Novel
The Woman from Tantoura: A Palestinian Novel 4.36 avg rating โ€” 28,595 ratings
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Friendly Fire: Ten Tales of Today's Cairo
Friendly Fire: Ten Tales of Today's Cairo 3.28 avg rating โ€” 7,067 ratings
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Chicago: A Modern Arabic Novel
Chicago: A Modern Arabic Novel 3.43 avg rating โ€” 22,646 ratings
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I Saw Ramallah
I Saw Ramallah 4.20 avg rating โ€” 18,624 ratings
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No One Sleeps in Alexandria
No One Sleeps in Alexandria 3.82 avg rating โ€” 4,317 ratings
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Cell Block Five: An Iraqi Novel
Cell Block Five: An Iraqi Novel 3.58 avg rating โ€” 126 ratings
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The Televangelist: A Novel
The Televangelist: A Novel 3.66 avg rating โ€” 6,985 ratings
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The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building 3.71 avg rating โ€” 22,609 ratings
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Status: Emo: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Status: Emo: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 4.06 avg rating โ€” 16 ratings
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The Collar and the Bracelet: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
The Collar and the Bracelet: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.11 avg rating โ€” 18 ratings
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City of Love and Ashes: A Novel
City of Love and Ashes: A Novel 3.54 avg rating โ€” 347 ratings
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Moon over Samarqand
Moon over Samarqand 3.87 avg rating โ€” 13,986 ratings
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Papa Sartre: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Papa Sartre: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
by: Ali Bader
3.43 avg rating โ€” 736 ratings
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The Dark Side of Love
The Dark Side of Love 4.10 avg rating โ€” 1,477 ratings
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A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me: A Novel
A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me: A Novel 3.15 avg rating โ€” 433 ratings
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Gold Dust
Gold Dust 3.87 avg rating โ€” 2,125 ratings
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The Last of the Angels: An Iraqi Novel
The Last of the Angels: An Iraqi Novel 3.70 avg rating โ€” 143 ratings
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Being Abbas el Abd: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Being Abbas el Abd: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.11 avg rating โ€” 3,056 ratings
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Birds of Amber
Birds of Amber 3.64 avg rating โ€” 1,037 ratings
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A Dog with No Tail
A Dog with No Tail 2.82 avg rating โ€” 212 ratings
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Time of White Horses: A Novel
Time of White Horses: A Novel 4.43 avg rating โ€” 11,105 ratings
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A Man of Letters
A Man of Letters 4.09 avg rating โ€” 70 ratings
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Absent
Absent 3.56 avg rating โ€” 1,138 ratings
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Whitefly: A Novel
Whitefly: A Novel 3.08 avg rating โ€” 95 ratings
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As Doha Said (Modern Arabic Novels (Hardcover))
As Doha Said (Modern Arabic Novels (Hardcover)) 3.61 avg rating โ€” 3,309 ratings
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Black Magic: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Black Magic: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.12 avg rating โ€” 24 ratings
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Wolves of the Crescent Moon
Wolves of the Crescent Moon 3.28 avg rating โ€” 680 ratings
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A Certain Woman (Modern Arabic Literature
A Certain Woman (Modern Arabic Literature 3.56 avg rating โ€” 87 ratings
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Brooklyn Heights: An Egyptian Novel
Brooklyn Heights: An Egyptian Novel 2.97 avg rating โ€” 1,391 ratings
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A Tunisian Tale: A Novel
A Tunisian Tale: A Novel 3.40 avg rating โ€” 65 ratings
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Butterfly Wings
Butterfly Wings 3.07 avg rating โ€” 68 ratings
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Anubis: A Libyan Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Anubis: A Libyan Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.51 avg rating โ€” 154 ratings
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Candygirl: An Egyptian Novel
Candygirl: An Egyptian Novel 2.98 avg rating โ€” 50 ratings
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Mortal Designs: A Novel
Mortal Designs: A Novel 3.62 avg rating โ€” 306 ratings
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Basrayatha: Portrait of a City (Modern Arabic Literature
Basrayatha: Portrait of a City (Modern Arabic Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 4 ratings
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Clamor of the Lake: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Clamor of the Lake: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.36 avg rating โ€” 440 ratings
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Blue Aubergine
Blue Aubergine 2.80 avg rating โ€” 372 ratings
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Dates on My Fingers: An Iraqi Novel
Dates on My Fingers: An Iraqi Novel 3.53 avg rating โ€” 888 ratings
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Cairo Swan Song
Cairo Swan Song 3.62 avg rating โ€” 2,312 ratings
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Drumbeat
Drumbeat 3.30 avg rating โ€” 10 ratings
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Cities without Palms
Cities without Palms 3.68 avg rating โ€” 108 ratings
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Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs: An Omani Novel (Modern Omani Novels)
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs: An Omani Novel (Modern Omani Novels) 3.21 avg rating โ€” 66 ratings
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Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology
Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology 3.79 avg rating โ€” 42 ratings
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East Winds, West Winds: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
East Winds, West Winds: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 6 ratings
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Days In the Diaspora
Days In the Diaspora really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 431 ratings
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Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories (Modern Arabic Literature
Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories (Modern Arabic Literature 3.60 avg rating โ€” 5 ratings
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Diary of a Jewish Muslim: An Egyptian Novel
Diary of a Jewish Muslim: An Egyptian Novel 3.89 avg rating โ€” 708 ratings
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House of the Wolf: An Egyptian Novel
House of the Wolf: An Egyptian Novel 3.68 avg rating โ€” 255 ratings
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Disciples Of Passion (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series)
Disciples Of Passion (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series) 3.39 avg rating โ€” 186 ratings
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I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here 4.10 avg rating โ€” 4,924 ratings
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Dongola: A Novel of Nubia
Dongola: A Novel of Nubia
by: Idris Ali
3.78 avg rating โ€” 516 ratings
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Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated
Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated 3.21 avg rating โ€” 19 ratings
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Farewell to Alexandria: Eleven Short Stories
Farewell to Alexandria: Eleven Short Stories 4.08 avg rating โ€” 104 ratings
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Maryams Maze: A Modern Arabic Novel
Maryams Maze: A Modern Arabic Novel 3.11 avg rating โ€” 317 ratings
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Final Night: Short Stories (Modern Arabic Literature
Final Night: Short Stories (Modern Arabic Literature 3.31 avg rating โ€” 13 ratings
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Gazelle Tracks: A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt
Gazelle Tracks: A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt 3.43 avg rating โ€” 140 ratings
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Murder in the Tower of Happiness
Murder in the Tower of Happiness 3.74 avg rating โ€” 23 ratings
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Granada
Granada 3.98 avg rating โ€” 398 ratings
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Nile Sparrows (Modern Arabic Literature
Nile Sparrows (Modern Arabic Literature 3.55 avg rating โ€” 810 ratings
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Heads Ripe for Plucking (Modern Arabic Novels (Hardcover))
Heads Ripe for Plucking (Modern Arabic Novels (Hardcover)) 2.25 avg rating โ€” 4 ratings
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Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context
Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context 3.67 avg rating โ€” 3 ratings
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Hunger: An Egyptian Novel
Hunger: An Egyptian Novel 3.36 avg rating โ€” 14 ratings
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Poor: A Nubian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Poor: A Nubian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
by: Idris Ali
3.47 avg rating โ€” 55 ratings
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Private Pleasures: An Egyptian Novel
Private Pleasures: An Egyptian Novel 3.60 avg rating โ€” 5 ratings
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In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates 3.07 avg rating โ€” 30 ratings
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Pyramid Texts: A Modern Arabic Novel
Pyramid Texts: A Modern Arabic Novel 3.37 avg rating โ€” 241 ratings
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Inside the Night: A Modern Arabic Novel
Inside the Night: A Modern Arabic Novel 3.35 avg rating โ€” 23 ratings
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Red Wine
Red Wine 3.44 avg rating โ€” 39 ratings
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Judgment Day
Judgment Day 3.70 avg rating โ€” 66 ratings
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Return of the Spirit: Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Classic Novel of the 1919 Revolution
Return of the Spirit: Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Classic Novel of the 1919 Revolution 3.87 avg rating โ€” 4,310 ratings
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Life on Hold: A Saudi Arabian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Life on Hold: A Saudi Arabian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.47 avg rating โ€” 17 ratings
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Stones of Bobello
Stones of Bobello 3.34 avg rating โ€” 29 ratings
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Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian between Moscow and Chernobyl
Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian between Moscow and Chernobyl 3.31 avg rating โ€” 16 ratings
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Tales from Dayrut: Short Stories
Tales from Dayrut: Short Stories 3.50 avg rating โ€” 2 ratings
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Muniraโ€™s Bottle: A Saudi Arabian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Muniraโ€™s Bottle: A Saudi Arabian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.10 avg rating โ€” 617 ratings
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Tales of Encounter: Three Novellas
Tales of Encounter: Three Novellas 3.71 avg rating โ€” 24 ratings
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Muntaha
Muntaha 3.34 avg rating โ€” 29 ratings
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The Book of Epiphanies: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
The Book of Epiphanies: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.96 avg rating โ€” 276 ratings
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Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad
Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad 3.26 avg rating โ€” 137 ratings
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The Butterfly's Burden
The Butterfly's Burden 4.43 avg rating โ€” 715 ratings
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Nights of Musk: Stories from Old Nubia
Nights of Musk: Stories from Old Nubia 3.80 avg rating โ€” 66 ratings
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The Calligrapher's Secret
The Calligrapher's Secret 3.79 avg rating โ€” 812 ratings
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The Days: His Autobiography in Three Parts
The Days: His Autobiography in Three Parts 3.65 avg rating โ€” 11,809 ratings
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Of Noble Origins
Of Noble Origins 3.35 avg rating โ€” 147 ratings
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The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim: Great Egyptian Writers (Modern Arabic Literature
The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim: Great Egyptian Writers (Modern Arabic Literature 3.94 avg rating โ€” 17 ratings
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The Golden Chariot
The Golden Chariot 3.61 avg rating โ€” 228 ratings
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Rain over Baghdad: An Egyptian Novel
Rain over Baghdad: An Egyptian Novel 3.53 avg rating โ€” 17 ratings
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The Hashish Waiter
The Hashish Waiter 4.01 avg rating โ€” 2,091 ratings
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Rama and the Dragon: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
Rama and the Dragon: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.49 avg rating โ€” 242 ratings
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The Hedgehog: A Syrian Novella and Short Stories
The Hedgehog: A Syrian Novella and Short Stories 3.78 avg rating โ€” 175 ratings
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Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers: Two Modern Arabic Novellas (Modern Arabic Literature
Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers: Two Modern Arabic Novellas (Modern Arabic Literature 2.44 avg rating โ€” 9 ratings
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The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant
The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant 3.38 avg rating โ€” 164 ratings
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So You May See
So You May See 2.64 avg rating โ€” 247 ratings
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The Lamp of Umm Hashim: And Other Stories
The Lamp of Umm Hashim: And Other Stories 3.58 avg rating โ€” 5,624 ratings
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Specters
Specters 3.63 avg rating โ€” 2,891 ratings
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The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine
The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine 4.37 avg rating โ€” 4,264 ratings
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Temple Bar: An Egyptian Novel
Temple Bar: An Egyptian Novel liked it 3.00 avg rating โ€” 13 ratings
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The Lodging House
The Lodging House 3.98 avg rating โ€” 3,811 ratings
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The Committee
The Committee 3.62 avg rating โ€” 3,146 ratings
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The Long Way Back: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature
The Long Way Back: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature 3.88 avg rating โ€” 576 ratings
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