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  • Demoiselles of Numidia

    A Novel

    by Mohamed Leftah ...
    Translated by Lara Vergnaud ...
    The acclaimed Moroccan author’s debut novel, this stunning portrait of the world of sex work describes its sordid reality with beautiful, poetic prose.Available now for the first time in English, Demoiselles of Numidia offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of young women working in a Casablanca brothel—their relationships with each other and with their pimps, their dramas, and the rare moments ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Captain Ni'mat's Last Battle

    A Novel

    by Mohamed Leftah ...
    Translated by Lara Vergnaud ...
    First published after the author’s death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired air force pilot who begins a dangerous affair with a male servant.Captain Ni’mat, a reservist from the Egyptian army defeated by the Israelis in 1967, finds himself aging and idle, spending his days at a luxurious private club in Cairo with former comrades. One night, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Endless Fall

    A Little Chronicle

    by Mohamed Leftah ...
    Translated by Eleni Sikelianos ...
    In this poignant account of a classmate’s suicide, the acclaimed Moroccan author gives both a biting critique of small-town bigotry in the 1960s and a moving tribute to the fleeting beauty of adolescence.In Settat in the 1960s, when it was still a tiny village, a young man leapt to his death in front of his stunned class and their teacher, left holding a brief, devastating suicide note. Among the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Picasso's Demoiselles

    The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece

    by Suzanne Preston Blier ...
    In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her expertise in African art and newly discovered sources, Blier reads the painting not as a simple bordello scene but as Picasso's interpretation of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Les trois Demoiselles du Père Maire

    by Louis Dumur ...
    C’était un vieux régent du Collège de Genève et on le conservait comme une antiquité. Mais comme c’était en même temps, de l’avis de tout le monde, un excellent régent et certainement le seul capable de tenir tête à une classe de plus de cent élèves, dont les trois quarts étaient des gamins genevois, c’est-à-dire tout ce qu’il y a au monde de plus indiscipliné, on lui passait ses manies.Dans Les ... Read more

    $1.10 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sorry, Not Sorry

    Experiences of a brown woman in a white South Africa

    by Haji Mohamed Dawjee ...
    Why don’t white people understand that Converse tekkies are not just cool but a political statement to people of colour? Why is it that South Africans of colour don’t really ‘write what we like’? What’s the deal with people pretending to be ‘woke’? Is Islam really as antifeminist as is claimed? What does it feel like to be a brown woman in a white media corporation? And what life lessons can we ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shoreline of Infinity 8

    Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine

    by Eric Brown, Jeannette Ng, Laura Duerr, Barry Charman, Premee Mohamed, Michael Teasdale, Chris Kelso, Ruth EJ Booth ...
    series Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine
    StoriesTargets – Eric BrownGoddess with a Human Heart – Jeannette NgThe Pink Life(La Vie En Rose) – Nathan SusnikThe Black Tide – Laura DuerrThe Starchitect – Barry CharmanThese Are the Ways – Premee MohamedArthur Kovic’s Days of Change – Michael TeasdaleThe Folger Variation – Chris KelsoSF Poetry by Lauren Harwyn, Louise Peterkin, Colin McGuireCover – The Rescue of Sister, by Stephen Picker... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Status of Women in Islam

    by Sherif Abdel Azeem Mohamed ...
    In the West, Islam is believed to be the symbol of the subordination of women par excellence. In order to understand how firm this belief is, it is enough to mention that the Minister of Education in France, the land of Voltaire, has recently ordered the expulsion of all young Muslim women wearing the veil from French schools! A young Muslim student wearing a headscarf is denied her right of ... Read more

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  • Shoreline of Infinity 13

    Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #13

    by Rachel Armstrong, Esme Carpenter, Premee Mohamed, Laura Young, Preston Grassmann, Tim Major, Caroline Grebbell ...
    Book 13 - Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine
    Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine -Winner of for British Fantasy Society award 2018 for best magazine!StoriesEsme Carpenter – Harry's ShiverPremee Mohamed – The Time Between TimeLaura Young – DaughterBo Balder – Splitting UpCaroline Grebbell – Goodnight RosemarinusTim Major – Cast In the Same MouldRachel Armstrong – Origamy (extracts)Preston Grassmann – The Silk Tower of B... ... Read more

    $3.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into that Heaven of Freedom

    The impact of apartheid on an Indian family's diasporic history

    by Mohamed M Keshavjee ...
    This book captures the history of the South African Ismaili families and some of the people among whom they lived from 1894, when the first Ismaili, Jeevan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, up to 1994, when the country attained its multiparty democracy following the release of Nelson Mandela. It covers the growth of the greater family, and its dispersal first to ... Read more

    $11.21 USD

  • Data Scientist Pocket Guide: Over 600 Concepts, Terminologies, and Processes of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Assembled Together (English Edition)

    by Mohamed Sabri ...
    Discover one of the most complete dictionaries in data science.KEY FEATURES● Simplified understanding of complex concepts, terms, terminologies, and techniques.● Combined glossary of machine learning, mathematics, and statistics.● Chronologically arranged A-Z keywords with brief description.DESCRIPTIONThis pocket guide is a must for all data professionals in their day-to-day work processes. This ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • The Orchard of Lost Souls

    A Novel

    by Nadifa Mohamed ...
    From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes The Orchard of Lost Souls, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war.It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall.Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD