The Longing of the Dervish
Author: Ḥammūr Ziyādah
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9774167880
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Damn the Novel
Author: AMR Muneer Dahab
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2018-12-10
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1546271317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDamn the Novel Damn the Novel is an overt condemnation of all forms of privilege granted to a literary genre over other writing genres. Though Damn the Novel could be perceived as a vociferous cry against the novel per se, it is actually an objective view against the process of perpetuating the delusion that the novel specifically, and narrative fiction in general, should inevitably be the most dominating and influential literary trend. Damn the Novel offers an exciting and challenging reading experience, through which the reader will be able to realize that it is time for literature to embrace a fresh literary atmosphere in which all genres are granted equality to get the same chance to flourish in total freedom without any literary sponsorship.
The Drowning
Author: Hammour Ziada
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 2021-12
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781623719067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new novel from an award-winning Sudanese writer that lifts a corner of the veil that covers the misery of so many women's lives
American Dervish
Author: Ayad Akhtar
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2012-01-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0316192821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody
Author: Ahmed Taibaoui
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2023-01-03
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1649032161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “spare, well-crafted and compelling” (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he expected, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature In Rouiba, a nondescript suburb of Algiers, an unnamed man with a troubled past escapes his everyday life to find himself caring for an old man with dementia. When the man dies, the carer disappears into thin air. A police detective is assigned to investigate the circumstances of the old man’s demise and to track down the caretaker, only to find that the unnamed man cannot be identified—that there is no trace of Mr. Nobody. The officer’s search leads him to those whose paths once crossed Mr. Nobody’s. In each of them he finds a reflection of the man he is looking for. A raw, lyrical portrait of life on the margins in contemporary Algiers, this haunting noir captures an underworld of police informers, shady imams, bootleg beer traders, and grave robbers, and reverberates with echoes of Algeria’s violent past.
The Call of the Dervish
Author: Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBold exploration into the meaning and purpose of spirituality in the contemporary world. Transformation, discovering sacredness of life and the order behind the universe.
Homeland Elegies
Author: Ayad Akhtar
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 031649643X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis "profound and provocative" work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process. One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly
This Longing
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe selections in this book are sparkling drops from the ocean of Rumi's spiritual masterpiece, the Mathnawi -- six volumes of rhymed verse, drawing on favorite stories from the Qur'an, tales of Sufi saints and masters, the sayings of Muhammed, folklore, and popular humor. The excerpts presented here are rendered in free-verse style and emphasize the teaching stories and spiritual fables. Also included are seventeen personal letters, in which Rumi offers spiritual counsel to disciples and family members.
The Open Door
Author: Latifa Al-Zayyat
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1617971537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and class as they seek to free themselves of family control and social expectations. Young Layla and her brother become involved in the student activism of the 1940s and early 1950s and in the popular resistance to continued imperialist rule; the story culminates in the 1956 Suez Crisis, when Gamal Abd al-Nasser's nationalization of the Canal led to a British, French, and Israeli invasion. Not only daring in her themes, Latifa al-Zayyat was also bold in her use of colloquial Arabic, and the novel contains some of the liveliest dialogue in modern Arabic literature. "Not only a great novel, but a literary landmark that shaped our consciousness." Abdel Moneim Tallima "A great anticolonialist work in a feminist key." Ferial Ghazoul "Latifa al-Zayyat greatly helped all of us Egyptian writers in our early writing careers." Naguib Mahfouz
Rumi: The Book of Love
Author: Coleman Barks
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0061753408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks. Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi interpretor Coleman Barks has gathered the best of these poems in delightful and wise renderings that will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.
