New in Paperback

Scents and Flavors and Arabian Satire

Scents and Flavors, translated by Charles Perry, features delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East. The paperback edition includes a new foreword by Claudia Roden, author of A Book of Middle Eastern Food.

Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd by Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir, translated by Marcel Kurpershoek, is a collection of satirical verse by a poet from the Arabian Peninsula. The paperback edition features a new foreword by Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Yale University.