Product Description: With Jerusalem as its epicentre, The Maltese Dreambook extends Gabriel Levin’s quarter-century-long ramble through the Levant, his adopted homeland. On a Greek island, in the desert wastes of southern Jordan and in Malta, whose Stone Age temples serve as a backdrop to the title poem, this collection abounds in unforeseen encounters that blur the borders between the phantasmal and the real, the modern and the archaic, the rational and the imaginary...read more

Product Description: Water: an essential element that sustains our world and a powerful metaphor that has been used by artists and writers as a way of expressing emotion for centuries. Fusing images and poems that share water as a common theme, "The Water's Edge" explores the complexities of expression through a series of screenprints by the acclaimed artist Ardyn Halter...read more

Product Description: “Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness. . . . He has developed a style that seems both ancient and new, deceptively simple and movingly direct.”—The Washington Post Taha Muhammad Ali is a revered Palestinian poet whose work is driven by vivid imagination, disarming humor, and unflinching honesty...read more

Product Description: Yehuda Halevi, who wrote both secular and devotional poems, is considered one of the finest poets in post-biblical Hebrew literature. Suffused with warmth, moving easily between the mundane and the otherworldly, and, above all, delicately elegiac, the poet's voice cuts across all the literary genres and religious modes on which he drew...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Gabriel Levin's second collection builds confidently on his highly praised first. In graceful, exacting lyrics, he addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of `fire and ash' desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sensitivity to the life of things past as well as present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Poetry. This selection of poems and prose by Ahmed Rassim introduces English readers to the leading French-language Egyptian poet of the first half of the twentieth century. Admired by his fellow Alexandrian, Constantine Cavafy, Rassim's gently melancholic poems blend the antics of French surrealist writing with a highly personalized--one might call it "mock-arabesque"--oriental style...read more

Product Description: poetry, preeminent medieval Hebrew Andalusian poet