Published by Banipal Books, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0957442424 ISBN 13: 9780957442429
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Published by Banipal Books, 2005
ISBN 10: 0954966619 ISBN 13: 9780954966614
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Published by Banipal Books, 2016
ISBN 10: 0995636907 ISBN 13: 9780995636903
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Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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Published by Banipal Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 099563694X ISBN 13: 9780995636941
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Published by Banipal Books, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1913043363 ISBN 13: 9781913043360
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Impoverished Egyptian teacher Helmy is desperate to find a better life for himself, his wife and little boy, seeing no future at home in Cairo. He dreams of working in oil-rich Kuwait and its boom in construction being the answer, just like many thousands before him. He manages to borrow the huge cost of a visa and is at last on his way to Kuwait City.He has no idea of the hellish nightmare, instead of the dream, that awaits him the relentless summer sun and temperature of 56oC and more, the choking dust and sweat, having to do construction work instead of teaching. And always, no money, and no answers from the many officials that he comes up against. Instead of achieving his dream, he falls into trap after trap.The author is himself a character in the novel, an engineer with the construction company who is writing a novel about the humiliating and degrading experiences of the migrant foreign workers arriving in Kuwait to make their fortunes.In the Preface to the novel, author Taleb Alrefai writes: "The novel casts lights on the lives of thousands of workers who come to the Gulf states with dreams of money and wealth, but who are confronted with the harshness of a desolate reality. It exposes specifically the suffering of migrant workers in Kuwait, be they Arabs or foreigners, and how their every moment is shaped by need, injustice and cruelty. Some commit suicide, but that has no effect on the work on site under the blazing sun thats like the lash of hell."Almost a historical document on my life and the lives of the workers with whom I lived for fifteen years, Shadow of the Sun presents a human landscape set in and reflecting Kuwait." Impoverished Egyptian teacher Helmy is desperate for a better life for himself, his wife and little boy, seeing no future at home in Cairo. He dreams of working in oil-rich Kuwait and its boom in construction being the answer. He manages to borrow the huge cost of a visa and is on his way there, with no idea of the hellish nightmare awaiting him. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Banipal Books, 2009
ISBN 10: 0954966686 ISBN 13: 9780954966683
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Published by Banipal Books, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1913043436 ISBN 13: 9781913043438
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Birds of Nabaa is a tale of physical and spiritual journeys, beginning in Nabaa, a remote Mauritanian village, whose herds lead the community according to their own inscrutable instincts, to life in Madrid, the Gulf states and Guinea, where the narrator's work as an embassy accountant takes him, and to Mauritania's capital Nouakchott.Inspired by the Sahara of his childhood and devoted from an early age to the vagabond life of the pre-Islamic poets, the narrator's constant life on the move in search of the inner stillness known only to desert dwellers leads him back always to the music, song and poetry so much a part of Mauritanian life and the spiritual universe of Sufism. The mix of diverse characters joining him includes Teresa, his Brazilian neighbour in Madrid whom he taught to make tea the Mauritanian way; Rajab the inspiring teacher in a blue face veil; Hussein the poet; Mariam, a postman between the living and the dead via cowrie shell readings; the exiled judge of Chinguetti; as well as his close friend the voracious reader and rebel Abdurrahman who wants to change the world, Abdel Hadi, the holy-fool sheikh with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Arab history and poetry, and Ould al-Taher, the first climate-change refugee.The narrator's travels take him to the village of Kanz al-Asrar near a tributary of the Senegal River, an area so fertile it is like a lush paradise. However, two and more years without any rain create drought, wells dry out, livelihoods shatter, and dreams turn to disturbing nightmarish premonitions of disaster. The burning fire of the sun is winning its eternal struggle with the hidden water that the clouds plant in the depths of the sand. As desertification takes hold, that paradise of southern Mauritania and of Nabaa gradually declines and the waves of migration, always a feature of life in the Sahara, intensify. Birds of Nabaa is a tale of physical and spiritual journeys, from its beginnings in Nabaa, a remote Mauritanian village, whose herds lead the community according to their own inscrutable instincts, to life in Madrid, the Gulf states and Guinea, where the narrator's work as an embassy accountant takes him, and back to Nabaa and Nouakchott. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Banipal Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913043150 ISBN 13: 9781913043155
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Published by Banipal Books, 2022
ISBN 10: 1913043266 ISBN 13: 9781913043261
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Published by Banipal Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 191304310X ISBN 13: 9781913043100
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Published by Banipal Books, 2020
ISBN 10: 1913043045 ISBN 13: 9781913043049
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A few small marks or stains to the page edges/pages . A tan to the page edges/pages . Minor shelf wear.
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Published by Banipal Books, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1913043185 ISBN 13: 9781913043186
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of Palestinian-ness. They include Israeli citizens, the offspring of those who remained in Palestine after 1948. They also include poets who lived or continue to live in the West Bank and Gaza, areas that are still occupied, or controlled by Israelis as of this writing. Finally, they include poets born in Palestine, but whose families were expelled, or migrated to neighboring Arab countries as a result of the Arab-Israeli wars of the Nakba in 1948, and then of 1967 and 1973.The educational backgrounds of the poets represented here vary. Salem Jubran, Samih al-Qasim, Tawfiq Zayyad, and Marwan Makhoul, for example, were products of the Israeli educational system. Others attended institutions of learning in various Arab countries. Fadwa Tuqan received little formal education in her city of Nablus; she, however, acquired instruction in language, support in writing poetry, and encouragement to publish her poems from her brother, the well-known poet Ibrahim Tuqan, mentioned previously. All these poems are written in fusha Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, the codified literary, written language shared by educated speakers of Arabic in their various respective regions. Palestinian folkloric poetry, referred to as al-Shir al-Shabi or Shir al-Ammiyya, is not included in this work. Folk poetry, richly expressed orally in the Palestinian dialect, Ammiyya, embraces a variety of themes (national pride, panegyric, love, generosity toward guests/strangers, and so on), including the political themes expressed in the poems in this work. There is a rising interest in collecting and preserving this folkloric poetry, and several anthologies of oral poetry as well as studies have recently appeared.The 1948 Nakba, the wars of 1967 and 1973, and their subsequent tragic impact find expression in the work of Palestinian poets. Some of the authors in this collection had firsthand experience of the loss of home, and the up-rootedness from and destruction of their villages and cities. Others acquired knowledge of such experiences, the tragedy that befell Palestinians, through stories told by grandparents or parents, stories of hardship and deprivation transmitted from one generation to another. Thus, poets express in vocabulary specific to the Palestinian experience of the dispossession of homeland, the forced expulsion, the pain of living in the miserable conditions of refugee camps in the diaspora. Selected, introduced, and translated by Mohammed Sawaie, these works by Palestinian poets over seven decades give expression to Palestinian experience under Israeli rule and occupation, and the experience of dispersion and displacement from their homeland following the 1948 Nakba Arab-Israeli War and the subsequent wars of 1967 and 1973. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Banipal Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 0954966635 ISBN 13: 9780954966638
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Published by Banipal Books, 2016
ISBN 10: 0957442483 ISBN 13: 9780957442481
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Published by Banipal Books, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913043398 ISBN 13: 9781913043391
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Said Mardan flees Iraq when a colleague reports him for a joke about Saddam Hussein. He obtains asylum in Norway, learns the language, and becomes a postman. He marries his Norwegian language teacher Tona, even adopts her family name Jensen, and starts writing satirical stories in Norwegian for the Dagposten newspaper. However, he suffers throughout from all too vivid visitations from the ghost of his dead father, who was seized and killed by the regime before Said was born. "Where's my grave?" his father always asks.Said's life is upturned after his wife dies suddenly and he struggles with growing depression, headaches and cruel, haunting nightmares while painful and bloody memories keep rising to the fore, possibly aided by the ketamine he has been prescribed. He is urged by e-friend Abir to come immediately back to Baghdad, where a mass grave that probably contains his father's remains is about to be opened. He goes back at short notice, only to find that Baghdad after the US invasion of 2003 is not the paradise he has been promised. On the contrary the city is exhausted and in the poisonous thrall of competing religious militias: he has to carry two sets of false IDs to oblige whichever one stops him.After a brutal encounter and finding himself in a large cemetery, he recalls fondly his old Norwegian neighbour Jakob who bought an orchard of cherry trees so that he could be laid to rest there, and according to old legend, reincarnate into a cherry tree. At the mass grave, Said takes a photo of his father - an incomplete father, that is, just a skull and some bones - to fill the empty frame he brought with him. After his shattering experiences, can he also find rest in a cherry orchard? Iraqi Said Jensen, living in Norway, is forever haunted by the ghost of his father, killed by the Iraqi regime before he was born, and nightmarish visions. On being called to Baghdad where a mass grave, possibly holding his father's remains, will be opened, he thinks about the peaceful cherry orchard his neighbour Jakob was laid to rest in. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Banipal Books, 2022
ISBN 10: 1913043290 ISBN 13: 9781913043292
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Published by Banipal Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 0957442467 ISBN 13: 9780957442467
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Published by Banipal Books, 2020
ISBN 10: 1913043061 ISBN 13: 9781913043063
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Published by Banipal Books, 2020
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Condition: Good. 2020. First Edition Thus. 151 pages. Signed by the author. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Signed by the author with dedication to half title. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
Published by Banipal Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913043207 ISBN 13: 9781913043209
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Published by Banipal Books, 2020
ISBN 10: 0995636982 ISBN 13: 9780995636989
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Published by Banipal Books, 2020
ISBN 10: 1913043088 ISBN 13: 9781913043087
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Published by Banipal Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913043231 ISBN 13: 9781913043230
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Published by Banipal Books, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 191304341X ISBN 13: 9781913043414
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Secrets of Folder 42 opens with the author forgetting his laptop and notebook in a taxi. What a chance!!The reader is introduced to the protagonists via two storylines playing out across continents and true historical events. Their stories proceed separately and eventually interweave spectacularly. There's successful novelist Christine McMillan - the unrivalled pioneer of new American realism who is facing writer's block, and her friend from college days, Brandon, a former US soldier turned literary agent who is mad about books. He declares "the most beautiful thing is the tightrope walk between reality and fiction" - echoing Sebbata's own words that it is "the art of the novel to make reality and fiction one" - and suggests that the secret past of Christine's father in Morocco could be the subject for her next novel. There's Rachid Bennacer, a porter in Christine's hotel in Morocco, who is a young PhD literature researcher studying the 1989 novel A Moroccan Jigsaw Puzzle.The passion for thoughtful and serious reading - by the characters as well as the author - is shared to the reader, each chapter opening with a quotation from a different literary work, the full list of titles and authors having been suggested by the illusive and mysterious publisher of A Moroccan Jigsaw Puzzle. All are works that consider issues of human values and dignity, which is central to unravelling the riddles of The Secrets of Folder 42.In the other storyline, Zouhair Belkacem, nicknamed Kasparov at school for being the up-and-coming Moroccan chess champion, is shunted off to medical school in Moscow by his wealthy lawyer mother to avoid being charged with raping their underage maid at their summer beach house. He becomes great pals with Sergei Kryachkov, who has a passion, like him, for reading, especially Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, a book that surfaces at crucial moments, a totem, throughout Sebbata's thrilling novel. After becoming a hostage in the 2002 Chechen resistance fighters' seizure of Moscow's Dubrovka Theatre, and escaping incarceration in Siberia, Zouhair returns to Morocco after many years. It's crunch day for everyone when, in a taxi, he finds a laptop and notebook. In this thriller-cum-jigsaw puzzle, two storylines play out across continents and true historical events as American novelist Christine McMillan and student Rachid Bennacer aim to solve The Secrets of Folder 42, while chess champion Zouhair Belkacem, shunted off to medical school in Moscow, returns to Morocco in time for a spectacular crunch day. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Banipal Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913043126 ISBN 13: 9781913043124
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Published by Banipal Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 0995636931 ISBN 13: 9780995636934
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Published by Banipal Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913043282 ISBN 13: 9781913043285
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Published by Banipal Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 1913043037 ISBN 13: 9781913043032
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Published by Banipal Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0995636958 ISBN 13: 9780995636958
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Published by Banipal [Books] [INPRESS], 2010
ISBN 10: 095496666X ISBN 13: 9780954966669
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 106 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.25 inches. In Stock.