Bahaa Abdelmegid

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enough p

As the 19th century draws to a close, the politically disgraced Mahmoud Abd El Zahir takes up his post as District Commissioner of the remote and dang

A novel that tells the story of a young Muslim who, when his life is threatened, finds sanctuary in a community of Coptic monks.

In Egypt a new era has dawned, but the dawn has taken an ominous turn. President Gamal Abdel Nasser has just proclaimed the first in a series of natio

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HateSpeak in Contemporary Arabic Discourse fills in an obvious gap in discourse studies on Arabic. After a detailed semantic and metaphorical account

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In these two short novels, Bahaa Abdelmegid displays the impressive range of his narrative imagination. Set in the lower-class Cairo district of Shubr

This book offers a challenging and stimulating perspective on translation. It is a comprehensive practical course in translation between English and A

This is a manual of literary translation and as such will be invaluable to students of linguistics, translation, literary theory and cultural studies.

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