Beyond Love (Middle East Literature in Translation)

Abundance from the Desert: Classical Arabic Poetry

Raymond Farrin

Alfred Farag and Egyptian Theater: The Poetics of Disguise,
with Four Short Plays and a Monologue

Dina A. Amin

Canceled Memories: A Novel

Nazik Saba Yared

Nadine Sinno, trans.

Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology

Shakir Mustafa, ed. and trans.

I, Anatolia, and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern
Turkish Drama, Volume Two

Talat S. Halman and Jayne L. Warner, eds.

Ibrahim the Mad, and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern
Turkish Drama, Volume One

Talat S. Halman and Jayne L. Warner, eds.

Martyrdom Street

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

My Bird

Fariba Vafi

Mahnaz Kousha and Nasrin Jewell, trans.

The Pistachio Seller

Reem Bassiouney

Osman Nusairi, trans.

Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends

Talat S. Halman

Jayne L. Warner, ed.

With a Foreword by miriam cooke

HADIYA HUSSEIN

Translated from the Arabic by lkram Masmoudi

HADIYA HU55EIN is an Iraqi writer who has published many
novels and short stories. She currently lives in Amman, Jordan.
Beyond Love is her first novel to be translated into English.

IKRAM MASMOUDI was educated in Tunisia and France,
where she got her PhD from the University Stendhal Grenoble
III in textual linguistics. In 2001 she obtained the Agregation
d'arabe and taught Arabic language and culture at the Universite de Provence. She has extensive teaching experience. She has
taught courses of all levels of Arabic and courses on modern
Arabic literature at Middlebury College, Duke University, and
Princeton University. In the fall of 2008 she joined the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of
Delaware, where she chairs the Arabic Program and codirects
the UD Winter Study Abroad Program in Tunisia. Her research
interests are in language and literature, and she is currently
working on a book about Iraqi war fiction.

Foreword, MIRIAM COOKE ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

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