{"title":"Arabic Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterature translated from Arabic\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"final-night-66180","title":"Final Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eLove and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46516425949320,"sku":"66180","price":151.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5421\/0440\/files\/9789774247330.jpg?v=1790101044"},{"product_id":"men-in-the-sun-and-other-palestinian-stories-68367","title":"Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eGhassan Kanafani's classic, harrowing Palestinian novella detailing the plight of refugees seeking hope across desert borders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46516428963976,"sku":"68367","price":990.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5421\/0440\/files\/9780894108570.jpg?v=1790090414"},{"product_id":"wedding-night-80690","title":"Wedding Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a small town in the Nile Delta lives Houda the deaf and mute butcher's apprentice. Revealing the town's private stories through public sign language, Houda articulates the unspoken and the forbidden, to unsettle the apparent quietude of rural society. But his own unrestrained desire threatens to scandalize the town and rock its codes of public behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen it is reported that he has violated the sanctity of his employer's own house, the whole town, with the butcher and Shaykh Saadoun, the pretending Sufi, in the lead, rises to avenge itself and publicly humiliate and ridicule Houda. The elaborate ruse planned by the butcher and the shaykh, playing on Houda' s hopes, dreams, and fantasies, is foolproof-but while Houda may be a dreamer, he is certainly no fool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis original, satiric novel, introducing the reader to every public and private corner in the life of a small town, is both a daring critique of contemporary Egyptian reality and a thoroughly good read, a remarkable novel of sustained carnivalesque suspense and wicked black humor that marks the arrival of a true literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46516461699208,"sku":"80690","price":186.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5421\/0440\/files\/9780553841046.jpg?v=1790084954"},{"product_id":"being-abbas-el-abd-48607","title":"Being Abbas El Abd","description":"\u003cp\u003e'What is madness?' asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy’s jittery, funny, and angry new novel, Being Abbas el Abd. Assuring readers that they are about to find out, the narrator takes us on his subsequent itinerary through the insanity of present-day Cairo: in and out of minibuses,\u003cbr\u003e\nmalls, and crash pads. Despite sniper fire from multiple sources (traffic cops, buxom but inaccessible co-eds, minibus barkers drumming belly-dance rhythms on the paneling of their vehicles, and others) the narrator navigates the city’s pinball machine of social life with tolerable efficiency, and is ever ready with a withering response.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the interstices of his grouchy, chain-smoking, pharmaceutically-oriented, twenty-something life, however, lurk characters such as his elusive Uncle Awni, a well-known psychiatrist now on an ever-extending visit to America. And then there’s Abbas, the narrator’s best friend who,\u003cbr\u003e\nwhile delivering mordant homilies on life and society (\"We will survive only when we’ve turned our museums into public lavatories\"), surfaces at critical moments to drive our hero into uncontrollably multiplying difficulties. For instance, there’s the ticklish situation with the\u003cbr\u003e\nsimultaneous blind-dates Abbas has set up for him in coffee-shops on different levels of a Cairo mall with two girls both called Hind. With friends like Abbas, what paranoiac needs enemies?\u003cbr\u003e\nSharing the intensity of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and the hip sensibility of Douglas Coupland’s Generation X, Ahmed Alaidy’s work pushes the limits of written Arabic, developing private\u003cbr\u003e\nmeanings and personal rhythms that mirror the weft and warp of the narrator’s mind and revel in every linguistic register from ironic high Classical Arabic to the ingenious abuse of the streets via\u003cbr\u003e\nthe hip colloquial of Egypt’s 'what-have-I-got-to-lose' generation. 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