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A Handful of Earth: Selected Poems / حفنة من الغبار: قصائد ختارة
by El-Saad, Mariam Qasem / مريم قاسم لسعد
London: Aurora Press, 1993. Hardcover. 78p. in edgeworn dust jacket with light soiling on back cover, else very good condition. Bilingual poems with English on verso and Arabic on recto. Palestinian poet born in Nazareth and now living outside Washington, D.C. also known as Maryam Qasim Al-Sa'd or Sa'd. Poems with themes of love and diaspora originally written in Arabic and translated by the author to English.
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£13.76
Modern Syrian short stories
by Azrak, Michel, translator
Washington DC: Three Continents Press, 1988. Paperback. 131p., paperback, faint foxing on text block top edge, covers a bit handled, else very good.
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£9.71
Violations of Human Rights in Algeria. Excerpts from statements by both French and impartial sources on internment camps and the treatment of suspects and prisoners
New York: Arab Information Center, 1960. Pamphlet. 22p., 5.5x8.5 inches, staplebound pamphlet, very good. Information Paper Number 11.
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£17.81
THE ARAB WORLD PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
by Nejla Izzeddin
Chicago: Regnery Publishing. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner personalization on FEP. Rubbing, few open tears along panel edges. Chipping at spine crown. .
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£68.77
Le Coran et la vie des Signes; Lecture de la sourate Yusuf
by Machhour, Heba
Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018. Paperback. 74p., plus publisher's menu of theological books it has in print, this a nicely gotten-up softbound in decorated 8.5x5.5 inch glossy wraps. An unblemished copy: sound, clean, unmarked, really as new. The language is French-only, with Arabic where needful.
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£13.76
The Crusade: historiography and bibliography
by Atiya, Aziz S
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. Hardcover. 170p. hardcover, very good, in mildly worn plain glassine dust wrapper.
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£9.71
A Long Way: I Have Come a Long Way; I Have a Long Way to Go
by Al-Jundi, Sef
New York: Vantage Press, 1985. Hardcover. 84p. in blue cloth boards with slightly toned and rubbed dust jacket, else very good condition. Syrian-born poet in Texas with philosophical explorations in a minimalist style.
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£24.28
The Other Side of Israel. My Journey Across the Jewish- Arab Divide
by Nathan, Susan
London: Harper Collins Publishers. 2005. Very Good condition - a nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 302 pages. The author formed the view that much of Israel's Arab population was neglected and oppressed. As a result, in 2003 she moved from her home in Tel Aviv to the Arab city of Tamra in northern Israel - where she wrote this book. The book examines the historical, political and cultural currents of the Middle Eastern conflict. Robust, professional packaging and...
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£9.52
Arab on Radar: Poems [signed]
by Ellis, Angele
Pittsburgh: Six Gallery Press, 2007. Paperback. 59p. in pictorial wraps, poems, Arabic terms glossary, large red "local author" sticker on front cover else very good condition. First edition, signed by author on title page. Pittsburgh poet of Lebanese and Italian descent.
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£12.14
Rest in Love
by Melhem, D. H
New York: Dovetail Press, 1975. Paperback. 103p. in pictorial wraps, some edgewear else very good condition. Arab-American poet of Syrian and Lebanese descent from Brooklyn presents a collection of poems as elegy for her mother Georgette Deyratani, of whom a fragment of poetry written on the back of a postcard is included at the end.
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£9.71
Oppose US-British interference in the internal affairs of the Arab countries
Peking: Chinese Literature, 1958. Pamphlet. 18p. staplebound pamphlet, pages toned, otherwise very good. Issued as a supplement to Chinese Literature no. 5.
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£16.19
A Sasanian Silver Medallion of Varhran III
by Eilenberg, Samuel
[Washington, D.C.]: Ars Orientals II, 1957. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. [487-488 pp]. + plates [2]. Illus. with 2 b/w plates. 4to.
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£9.71
A Short History of the Arab Peoples
by Glubb, John Sir Lt-Gen
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1969. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good+ Dustjacket. DJ laminate lifting in parts and some light edgeware - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Black & white illustrations. 318 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£18.52
The Capital of Solitude: Poems [inscribed & signed]
by Orfalea, Gregory
Greenfield Center, NY: Ithaca House Books, 1988. Paperback. 103p. thin blue softcover with mildly soiled covers, some marks on fore edge, pages slightly toned, else very good condition first edition. Inscribed and signed by the author to Kermit Morgan. Poet of Syrian and Lebanese descent, also a historian of the Arab American community and cousin of the founder of Kinko's.
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£12.14
The Spring Flowers Own & The Manifestations of the Voyage
by Adnan, Etel
Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 1990. Paperback. 101p. in blue wraps, sun faded spine, some edgewear, else very good condition. Contains a few drawings by the author. Etel Adnan was a celebrated Lebanese-American poet, artist and journalist born in Beirut of a Christian Greek mother and a Muslim Syrian father.
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£13.76
My Sons in God: Selected and New Poems [inscribed & signed]
by Hazo, Samuel
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1965. Hardcover. 135p. in red-orange cloth boards, dust jacket with a few small tears along top and bottom edges, else very good condition first edition. Signed and inscribed to Wilma Taylor in 1972 on front free endpaper. Hazo, the Pittsburgh-born son of Lebanese and Syrian immigrants, was the first Pennsylvania poet laureate.
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£12.14
Spying for God: Essays on Poetry, Politics and Places [inscribed & signed]
by Hazo, Samuel
Pittsburgh: Byblos Press, 1999. Paperback. 191p. in brown wraps with some rubbing and significant creases across front and back cover hinges, tiny blue marks on fore edge, else very good condition. Inscribed and signed by author to novelist Janet Fitch. Hazo, the Pittsburgh-born son of Lebanese and Syrian immigrants, was the first Pennsylvania poet laureate.
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£20.24
Bulletin of the Institute of Arab American Affairs. Vol. 1 no. 6
New York: Institute of Arab American Affairs, 1945. pamphlet. 8p., single issue of the staplebound bulletin, 5.5x8.5 inches, some toning. Largely devoted to criticism of Zionism.
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£13.76
Picks: 1955-1990 [signed]
by Hazo, Samuel
Pittsburgh: Byblos Press, 1990. Paperback. 128p. in red frenchfold wraps, spine sunned, small bump to bottom right corner, else very good condition. 8vo. One of 200 copies signed by author. Poetry collection. Hazo, the Pittsburgh-born son of Lebanese and Syrian immigrants, was the first Pennsylvania poet laureate.
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£12.14
A Linguistic Analysis of Egyptian Radio Arabic [by] Richard S. Harrell -[with]- Stylistic Variations in Spoken Arabic: A Sample of Interdialectal Educated Conversation [by] Haim Blanc
by Ferguson, Charles A., editor. Richard S. Harrell and Haim Blanc, contributors
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Paperback. 161p., text reproduced from typewriter-set ms, second printing of the 1960 first issue. Softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch plain printed gray wraps. Back cover has a small vivid stain; no text is affected; the first several leaves bear some very faint foxing. Item is otherwise quite good, sound and unmarked. Harvard Middle Eastern monographs III.
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£12.14
The Ecstasy of the First Kiss
by Nouri, Abby
New York: Vantage Press, 1992. Hardcover. 69p. in black cloth boards with dust jacket, some rubbing to top of back cover, previous bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper, else very good condition. Numerous illustrations by author's son Shawn Nouri. Verses celebrating life and love by the Arab-American author.
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£12.14
Moroccan Journal
by Landau, Rom
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1952. Hardcover. x, 247p., original sea green cloth boards, profusely illustrated with b&w photos., bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, some minor sun fading on board spine, some chipping on dust jacket corners some minor fraying on edges, small hole to rear panel, board corners mildly bumped, somewhat soiled, else in very good condition.
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£20.24
The South Wind [cover: الرياح الجنوبية]
by Ne Jame, Adele
Honolulu / Berkeley: Mānoa Books / El León Literary Arts, 2011. Paperback. 32p. in pictorial wraps, 10x6 inches, in fine condition. Poems from Lebanese-American author and long-time resident of Hawaiʻi including reflections on diaspora and the meaning of home between the Middle East and the Pacific Islands.
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£16.19
Arabic-speaking Americans; number 2
New York: The Institute of Arab American Affairs, 1946. Pamphlet. 29p., staplebound pamphlet, mild toning, otherwise very good. Primarily compiled by Habib Ibrahim Katibah, based on his travels throughout the US in 1940-42, and the articles he subsequently published in Meraat-ul-Gharb, a New York Arabic language newspaper.
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£60.71
Arabian Travellers
by Trench, Richard
London: Macmillan. 1986. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good+ condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Black & white maps. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£11.64