Year of the Elephant Thomas Thompson September 20, 2017 View fullsize Leila Abouzeid, translated from the Arabic by Barbara Parmenter, introduction by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, introduction to the revised edition by Barbara Harlow ([Austin, TX]: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2009).
My Torturess by Bensalem Himmich Thomas Thompson August 14, 2017 View fullsize Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. Translated by Roger Allen.
Bayt al-Nuʿās Thomas Thompson July 21, 2017 View fullsize The House of the Tired by Idrīs Khūrī (al-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ : Majmūʻat al-Baḥth fī al-Qiṣṣah al-Qaṣīrah bi-l-Maghrib, 2008)Short stories
Zafzaf's Wide Mouths Thomas Thompson March 1, 2017 View fullsize Muḥammad Zafzāf, Afwāh wāsiʾah (Dār al-Bayḍāʿ: Maṭbaʾat al-Janūb, 1998)
Muḥammad Shukrī's Time of Mistakes (Streetwise) Thomas Thompson February 27, 2017 View fullsize Moroccan author Muḥammad Shukrī's Zaman al-akhṭāʾ, alternatively titled al-Shuṭṭār, the 2nd volume of his three-part autobiography, a sīrah dhātiyyah riwāʾiyyah ("a novelistic autobiography").
The Polymath Thomas Thompson February 22, 2017 View fullsize Binsālim Himmīsh's Al-ʿAllāmah (al-Rabāṭ : Maṭbaʻat al-Maʻārif al-Jadīdah, 2001)
Muḥammad Shukrī's al-Khaymah Thomas Thompson January 13, 2017 View fullsize A collection of short stories.
Anthology of Modern Iranian Short Stories (in Arabic) Thomas Thompson January 11, 2017 View fullsize Considering the deep transnational connections of Arabic and Persian literature, there is a real dearth of books like this one--particularly when we consider the modern period. An admirable effort here!