Dialog in Three Dimensions - Drawing 3
Dialog in Three Dimensions - Drawing 2
Dialog in Three Dimentions - Drawing 1
The drawings in this book were done by Yaḥyā al-Shaykh.
Haydari's Dialog in Three Dimensions - Dedication
Buland Haydari - Dialog in Three Dimensions
Ḥiwār ʻabr al-abʻād al-thalāthah. Buland al-Ḥaydarī. Baghdād : Mudīriyyat al-Thaqāfah al-ʻĀmmah, 1972.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's The Sun King
Al-Malik al-Shams. ʻAmmān, al-Urdun : Dār al-Shurūq, 1988, a drama about the life of Nebuchadnezzar.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's Shout in a Long Night
Ṣurākh fī layl ṭawīl : riwāyah. Bayrūt : Dār al-Ādāb, 1988.
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Issues in Contemporary Poetry, Nāzik al-Malāʾikah
1967 edition of Qadāyā al-shiʿr al-muʿāṣir (Baghdād: Maktabat al-Nahḍah).
Prayer and Revolution
Nāzik al-Malāʾikah's al-Ṣalāh wa-l-thawrah, 1st ed. (Bayrūt: Dār al-ʿIlm li-l-Malāyīn, 1978).
Thanks to @UmmHafi for this cover.
Nazim Hikmet
Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet during a trip to Beirut.
Muḥammad Shukrī's al-Khaymah
A collection of short stories.
al-Shābbī's "Arab Poetic Imagination"
Blue butterflies brighten the cover of this prose work by one of modern Arabic literature's best known Romantics (or is he a Revolutionary?).
Anthology of Modern Iranian Short Stories (in Arabic)
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!
Mālik al-Ḥazīn by Ibrāhīm Aṣlan
The cover of Aṣlan's revolutionary novel The Heron, an example of an Egypt you won't find in Maḥfūẓ's version of Cairo.
Ahmad Shamlu - Selected Poems
A photo of the Persian poet who died in 2000. This translation is from 2015's Born Upon the Dark Spear, done by Jason Mohaghegh and published by Contra Mundum.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's Adonis or Tammuz (translation of Frazer's Golden Bough)
The cover of the 1979 second edition of Jabra's translation of selections from James Frazer's The Golden Bough. The painting features a fertility goddess giving birth to herself. To her right--our left, a bird (a phoenix?) contains a smaller version—with different colored plumage--inside itself.
Al-Sayyab's Letters
From the 1994 edition of Rasāʾil al-Sayyāb.
Maʾsāt al-Ḥayāh by Nāzik al-Malāʾikah
2nd edition, 1981 - Dār al-ʿAwdah in Beirut.