CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series by Ahmad Mahmoud, Radwa Ashour

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  • The Neighbors (CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation #1)
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    The Neighbors (CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation #1)

    Ahmad Mahmoud

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1974

    Ahmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s. His protagonist, Khaled, a young man from a rundown neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in southern Iran, becomes involved in the struggle to wrest Iran's oil industry from the British and, as the result of his political activities, comes to realize that there is more to life than the drudgery and poverty his parents and neighbors have experienced... more

  • Siraaj: An Arab Tale (CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation #1)
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    Siraaj: An Arab Tale (CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation #1)

    Radwa Ashour

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1992

    Set in the late nineteenth century on a mythical island off the coast of Yemen, Radwa Ashour's Siraaj: An Arab Tale tells the poignant story of a mother and son as they are drawn inextricably into a revolt against their island's despotic sultan.Amina, a baker in the sultan's palace, anxiously awaits her son's return from a long voyage at sea, fearful that the sea has claimed Saïd just as it did his father and grandfather... more

  • They Die Strangers (CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation #1)
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    They Die Strangers (CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation #1)

    Mohammad Abdul-Wali

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2002

    They Die Strangers, a novella and thirteen short stories, is the first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English. Abdul-Wali died tragically in an aviation accident, and his stories were collected after his death by the translators Abubaker Bagader and Deborah Akers. Abdul-Wali was born in Ethiopia of Arab Yemeni parents... more

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