Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. In this unforgettable novel the future and the past recreate one another and set the present afire with passion for the immortal wisdom, and immortal love and truth. The reader is invited to view the mind and the universe, intuition and reason, science and faith, and life and death with a profoundly new understanding... read more

Poetry. Translated from the Arabic by Omnia Amin and Rick London. NOW, AS YOU AWAKEN contains selected translations from Darwish's most recent book, Don't Apologize for What You've Done, published by El-Rayyes Books, Beirut, 2004... read more

"After the Track Trilogy, one of the most brilliant and audacious works in recent American literature, what a pleasure to discover these earlier poems by Norman Finkelstein. Lyrical, probing, and always finely wrought, there is a tenderness in this book that can break your heart"--Paul Auster... read more

"This book, a masterwork of the dislocations and radiant outcries of the Arab world, reaffirms Etel Adnan, who authored the great poem, Jebu, as among the foremost poets of the French Language. THE ARAB APOCALYPSE is an immersion into a rapture of chaos clawing towards destiny, and nullified hope refusing its zero..."--Jack Hirschman read more

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Taha Muhammad Ali is a revered Palestinian poet whose work is driven by vivid imagination, disarming humor, and unflinching honesty. His poems portray experiences that range from catastrophe to splendor, each preserving an essential human dignity... read more

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by David Cooper. In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel... read more

Cultural Writing. A highly provocative and infinitely approachable book which confronts history with a generous act of imagination, as it presents us with a practical ethics for the present and for the future of the Israel-Palestine question... read more

Poetry. Politics. Dedicated to Srebrenica, the town where more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were massacred in 1995, Ammiel Alcalay's new book, from the warring factions, is a daring blend of lyric and document that remaps the world we inherit, from native New England to the Roman Empire, from the Gulf War to Palestine and the Balkans... read more

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated by Richard Sieburth. Edited, introduced and annotated by Steven Wasserstrom. The first-ever book-length selection from the little-known but extremely compelling poetic oeuvre of the great scholar of Jewish mysticism... read more

Poetry. Translation. One of the great mystics of all time, Muhyiddin Ibn al-'Arabi was a prolific author who wrote on every aspect of medieval Islamic thought. Michael Sell's STATIONS OF DESIRE contains the first translations of Ibn 'Arabi's TURJUMAN into modern poetic English... read more

Fiction. Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege. SITT MARIE ROSE, an SPD bestseller, is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the civil war in Lebanon. Already a classic of war literature, it won the France-Pays Arabes award in Paris and has been translated into six languages... read more