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Ever Since I Did Not Die
ISBN: HB: 9780857427908, Seagull Books, July 2021
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
"I gathered these texts like someone collecting body parts. Here are the pieces of my body, haphazardly brought together in a paper bag. It looks like me with all my madness and sickness – how the revolution made me grow up, what the war broke inside...
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£12,99
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Book of Sleep
ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...
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£16,99
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Passage to the Plaza
ISBN: HB: 9780857427700, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In Bab Al-Saha, a quarter of Nablus, Palestine, sits a house of ill repute. In it lives Nuzha, a young woman ostracized from and shamed by her community. When the Intifada breaks out, Nuzha's abode unexpectedly becomes a sanctuary for those in the qu...
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£18,99
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Ice
ISBN: HB: 9780857426505, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The year is 1973. An Egyptian historian, Dr. Shukri, pursues a year of non-degree graduate studies in Moscow, the presumed heart of the socialist utopia. Through his eyes, the reader receives a guided tour of the sordid stagnation of Brezhnev-era Sov...
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£14,99
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Significant Year
ISBN: HB: 9780857425430, Seagull Books, September 2019
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
On the eve of the 2007 general elections in Morocco, writer, academic, and former cabinet minister Abdallah Saaf embarked on several road trips across the country to get a feel for how its citizens had fared since Mohammed VI's accession to the thron...
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£16,99
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Baghdad, Adieu Selected Poems of Memory and Exile
ISBN: HB: 9780857425447, Seagull Books, October 2018
264 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Ar...
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£18,99
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Law of Inheritance
ISBN: HB: 9780857425454, Seagull Books, August 2018
112 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, radical politics, and the first steps towards the making of a writer. But his story is not told in isol...
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£16,99
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Where the Bird Disappeared
ISBN: HB: 9780857425423, Seagull Books, July 2018
96 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the porousness of memory. It tells the story of the relationship between two figures of deep mythical reson...
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Stillborn Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt
ISBN: HB: 9780857424839, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and the Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. Written more than a decade after Salih quit the party...
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£20,00
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Maryam Keeper of Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780857423252, Seagull Books, February 2017
400 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of women's experiences amid this sprawling, region-defining conflict. In Alawiya Sobh's hands, the details of everyday life mix with female voices from across class...
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£20,50
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