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Biographies & Memoirs

In English, a variety of touching memoirs and exciting biographies.

Ambivalence (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 7468
By: Jonathan Garfinkel
Saqi Books, Beirut, 2008
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide (En). This provocative memoir chronicles Garfinkel's travels in Israel and Palestine and his journey away from a Zionist education in Toronto.
$23.95
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Asmahan's Secrets, Woman, War and Song
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 6422
By: Sherifa Zuhur
Saqi Books, London, 2001
Topic: Biography
Abstract: The great Arab singer Asmahan was the toast of Cairo song and cinema in the 1930's, as World War II approached. This story will provide glimpses also into aspects of the cultural and political history of Egypt and Syria between the two world wars. By: Sherifa Zuhur
$28.00
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Baghdad Diaries 1991-2002 (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4577
By: Nuha al-Radi
Saqi Books, Beirut
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: This is a recent book about Iraq that describes it as a real country. Excellent entries by Nuha al-Radi.
$14.95
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Beirut, I Love You (En)
Hardcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 10678
By: Zena El Khalil
Saqi Books, Beirut, 2009
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: A memoir by Zena El Khalil. This is the story of Zena, a young woman who has fallen under the spell of a city that threatens to engulf her in war, grief and love affairs.
$20.00
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Children of Catastrophe
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 12417
By: Jamal Krayem Kanj
Garnet, 2010
Topic: Biography-Current Affairs
Abstract: This book tells the tale of a Palestinian refugee...
$15.00
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Darkness To Sunlight - The Life-Changing Journey of Zaid Abdul-Aziz (Don Smith, En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5754
By: Zaid Abdul-Aziz
Sunlight Publishing, Inc.
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: Memoir in the Arabic language. By: Zaid Abdul-Aziz
$22.95
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For Bread Alone (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4550
By: Mohamed Choukri
Saqi Books, Beirut
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: Choukri's classic and moving work speaks for an entire generation of North Africans. This is a true document of human desperation.
$11.00
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From Baghdad to Bedlam: An Immigrant's Tale (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 6627
By: Maged Kadar
Saqi Books, London, 2007
Topic: Biography or Memoir
Abstract: Maged's recollections are filled with a deep affection for his Iraqi and British homes. He struggles to reconcile the gap between the two. . .
$14.95
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Harun al-Rashid and the World of Thousand and One Nights (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4582
By: Andre Clot
Saqi Books, Beirut
Topic: Biography
Abstract: The legend of Harun al-Rashid and the world of the thousand and one nights. By: Andre Clot
$18.95
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Imam Shahid Hasan al-Banna
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5962
By: S.M. Hasan al-Banna
Awakening, 2002
Topic: Biography
Abstract: From Birth to Martyrdom By: S.M. Hasan al Banna
$5.50
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In Jail with Nazim Hikmet
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 12504
By: Orhan Kemal translated by Bengisu Rona
Saqi, 2010
Topic: Biographies-Memoirs
Abstract: Two prisoners meet, both writers, both serving long sentences for allegedly inciting Turkish soldiers to mutiny. One is Turkey's most famous poet and communist, Nazim Hikmet; the other a young, aspiring poet, Orhan Kemal, who now shares a cell with the man whose work he has long admired.
$15.95
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In Tangier
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 11709
By: Mohamed Choukri
Telegram, 2010
Topic: Memoirs-Literature
Abstract: To Mohamed Choukri, Tangier was the most extraordinary and mysterious city in the world. No less extraordinary was Choukri, who taught himself to read and write at the age of twenty after a childhood of poverty and petty crime.
$15.95
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Journey To Makkah (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5753
By: Murad Hofmann
Amana Publications, Maryland, US
Topic: Autobiography
Abstract: Journey to Makkah is much more than an account of the author's pilgrimages to the holy places of Islam, Makkah, and Madinah By: Murad Hofmann
$9.95
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Journeys of a Sufi Musician (w/CD) (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5865
By: Kudsi Erguner
Saqi Books, 2005
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: Softcover book with a audio CD. By: Kudsi Erguner
$21.95
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Kahlil Gibran: A Biography (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 10745
By: Alexandre Najjar, Translated by Rae Azkoul
Saqi Books, London, 2008 En Edition c.2002
Topic: Biography
Abstract: Translated from the French, a biography by Alexandre Najjar. Najjar examines Gibran's letters, his publisher's archives and unpublished documents, revealing the extent of his influence and the extraordinary message of peace and hope in all of his work.
$14.95
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Leaving Beirut (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 7625
By: Mai Ghoussoub
Saqi Books, Beirut, 2007 2nd Edition
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: As a tribute to Mai Ghoussoub, who died suddenly on 17 February 2007, Saqi reprinted her memoir, 'Leaving Beirut' in April 2007, which has been received with critical acclaim.
$14.95
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My Animal Life
Hardcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 12505
By: Maggie Gee
Telegram, 2010
Topic: Biographies-Memoirs
Abstract: Maggie Gee's journey started in a small family post-war Britain, when love, ambition and good behavior looked very different.
$21.95
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Nasser, The Final Years (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5751
By: Abdel Magid Farid
Ithaca Press, UK
Topic: Biography
Abstract: This book consists largely of records of meetings between President Nasser of Egypt and various world figures from June 22, 1967, following the Arab-Israeli war, to September 22, 1970, the day before Nasser died. By: Abdel Magid Farid
$22.00
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Prominent Women from Central Arabia (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 7857
By: Dalal Mukhlid al-Harbi
Ithaca Press, UK, 2008
Topic: Biography
Abstract: The book contains fifty-two biographies of women who lived from the beginning of the eighteenth century to mid-twentieth century. By: Dalal Mukhlid al Harbi
$28.00
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Sarajevo Rose - A Balkan Jewish Notebook (En)
Hardcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5775
By: Stephen Schwartz
Saqi Books, Beirut
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: Tracing the movements of the Sephardic Jews to the Balkans - following their expulsion from Spain during the Inquisition By: Stephen Schwartz
$30.00
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Streetwise (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 10725
By: Mohamed Choukri
Telegram, 2007 English Edition c1996
Topic: Autobiography
Abstract: An autobiographical work. At the age of twenty Mohamed Choukri takes the momentous decision to learn to read and write...'Choukri's irrepressible, ultimately indomitable spirit is most touching and human.' The Independent
$14.95
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Suleiman the Magnificent (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4581
By: Andre Clot
Saqi Books, Beirut
Topic: Biography
Abstract: About the life and achievements of Suleiman the Magnificent, in the English language. By: Andre Clot
$29.95
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Teta, Mother and Me (An Arab Woman's Memoir) (En)
Hardcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5750
By: Jean Said Makdisi
Saqi Books, Beirut
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: In this moving memoir Jean Said Makdisi lovingly chronicles the unsung private histories of three generations of women in her family.
$28.95
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The Days
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 6432
By: Taha Hussein
The American University in Cairo Press, 2005
Topic: Autobiography
Abstract: Taha Hussein, His Autobiography in Three Parts.
$15.00
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The Glory of Iqbal (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 4450
By: Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
Awakening Publications
Topic: Biography
Abstract: The glory of Iqbal is great work on the life of M. Iqbal and very thought provoking with much commentary on some of his most famous poetry. By: Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
$10.95
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The Life of Saladin (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5831
By: Sir Hamilton Gibb
Saqi Books, 2006
Topic: Biography
Abstract: A compact, coherent and intensely sympathetic reconstruction of one of the heroes of Islam.' - from the foreword by Robert Irwin. By: Sir Hamilton Gibb
$14.95
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The Road To Mecca (En) - - Out of Stock
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5776
By: Mumammad Asad
Islamic Book Trust, Kuala Lumpur
Topic: Autobiography
Abstract: The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad is not a travelogue one picks up to read about the conditions of the people and landscape of a country in the distant past; it is an absorbing personal saga of a man's 'home-coming' to Islam, the religion of his 'fitrah' (nature).
$17.95
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The Silence of My Father
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 12477
By: Alexandre Najjar
Telegram, 2010
Topic: Biographies-Memoirs
Abstract: "The Silence of My Father", Lebanese lawyer and literary critic Alexandre Najjar's touching tribute to his father.
$12.95
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The Sunburnt Queen - A True Story (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5866
By: Hazel Crampton
Saqi Books, 2006
Topic: Biography
Abstract: In the late 1730s, an unknown English East Indiaman smashed to pieces on the reefs of Lambasi Bay on South Africa's Wild Coast. By: Hazel Crampton
$19.95
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With Borges (En)
Softcover ~ English ~ Product Code: 5855
By: Alberto Manguel
Telegram, 2006
Topic: Memoir
Abstract: Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes By: Alberto Manguel
$11.95
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