A landmark literary event, this groundbreaking work spans a
century of literature by the region's best writers—from the
famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Turkish Nobel Prize
winner Orhan Pamuk—all of them bound together not by borders
and nationalities but by a common experience of colonial
domination and western imperialism. As best-selling author
Reza Aslan writes, the mesmerizing prose of the Middle
East-Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu-has been virtually
excluded from the canon available to English readers. Under
the umbrella of Words Without Borders, Aslan has assembled
this extraordinary collection of short stories, memoirs,
essays, and poems, featuring both contemporary and
historical works, with many of the selections newly
appearing in English. Featuring literature from countries as
diverse as Morocco and Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, Tablet &
Pen is a long-awaited work that is to be devoured as a
single sustained narrative from the first page to the last.
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