The Silent BeggarWhen the sexual desires of a clergyman in a village lead to a tragic incident, it is only a brave 12-year-old boy who defies all odds and stands against the powerful clergyman, his own brother, and the villagers. The story takes on a richer dimension when Abbas, the son of a wealthy landlord from Churcheh and Asyeh's neighbor, takes an interest in Asyeh's well-being and becomes her protector. Sattar and Abbas, whose families and villagers have long...

THEME:"TAR" is the first truly serious and literate look at the cross-cultural drama told in personal terms. Tar is a love story/adventure/tragedy in the tradition of "Doctor Zhivago,", with flavor of "Indiana Jones." Surly an Iranian Lawrence of Arabia. It's based on the story of an American woman who's manipulated and lied to, by her Iranian boyfriend, a member of the anti-SHAH underground movement, to travel to Iran to look for her lost father. Her life was flipped upside down a...

Based on a true story**, In Search of Love,** recounts a spiraling odyssey of a farm boy, NADER, and his struggle to be who he wants to be. But just as he was about to get to know himself, he witnesses a beating of his mother by his father, tearing in silent in a middle of the night as innocent and hopeless child he called for God to help his mother, just then something had happen that it changed his life forever, it brought him a power of spirituality which changes his life and led him to...

The animosities and bloodshed between the villages of Shourcheh and Tikken persisted, casting a dark shadow over the land. However, the narrative takes a dramatic twist as an elusive murderer and notorious thief emerges from the shadows after five decades, assuming a new identity and appearance. With calculated precision, he deceitfully presents himself as a revered clergyman and Imam, resorting to ruthless tactics, even murder, to further his sinister agenda and establish his own dominion...

In the nineteenth century, two villages in Iran, SHORCHEH and TIKKEN, were deeply entrenched in religious fanaticism and rigid traditions. Within this oppressive environment, a forbidden love affair takes root, further fueling an ongoing rivalry centered around a vital water well.As the tensions escalate, Sattar, a young poet and the son of a powerful landlord named Assad Khan from Tikken, finds himself helplessly falling in love with Asyeh, the beautiful daughter of a destitute dr...

"Based on the Epic Journey of Howard Baskerville mission to Persia and discovery of the "Garden Of Eden."Story/adventure/tragedyin the tradition of Lawrence of Arabia with flavor of "IndianaJones. Surly an Iranian Lawrence of Arabia"LOGLINE:This is a true story about a young American, Howard Baskerville, who pursues what he feels is a unique, but somewhat unfocused, purpose in life. He follows his heart over to preserve a cause that ...

Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia.Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both teenagers. Surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born, but stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they rea...

Tribal leaders in opposition to the government, the corruption of occupation, society torn apart by shifting political loyalties... this is the background to one woman's powerful story. A Persian Requiem is a powerful and evocative novel. Set in the southern Persian town of Shiraz in the last years of World War II, when the British army occupied the south of Persia, the novel chronicles the life of Zari, a traditional, anxious and superstitious woman whose husband, sef, is an idealistic fe...

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Cairo Trilogy and "a storyteller of the first order” (Vanity Fair) comes an epic novel that portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history.Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s, through short character sketches arranged in alphabetical order. This highly experimenta...

This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south.Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this treasury of Arab voices is diverse in styles and concerns, but united by a common language. It spans the full history of modern Arabic literature, from its roots in we...

“The first great Saudi novel.” —The New York SunBanned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning author: "Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel García Márquez."In a Riyadh bus station, a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandon...

Soraya M.’s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn’t afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya’s dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was cooking for a friend’s widowed husband. Exhausted by a lifetime of abuse and hardship, Soraya said nothing, and the makeshift tribunal took her silence as a confession of guilt. They sentenced her to...