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The Baghdad Villa

A young Iraqi woman watches her family life collapse amid the country’s political turmoil, turning to the seven world-famous paintings hanging in her family’s Baghdad villa to make sense of the chaos around her. A work of translated...

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The Bad Immigrant

An account of an immigrant family’s struggle and the lessons learned about diversity Writing at the height of her powers, The Bad Immigrant cements Sefi Atta’s place as one of the best storytellers of our time. Through the...

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The American Quarter

A love letter to a city of his childhood, Jabbour Douaihy’s The American Quarter is set in a small neighborhood in Tripoli, the ancient port on the northern coast of Lebanon. Unfolding at the height of the US-led invasion of Iraq, it...

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Teaching Arabs, Writing Self Memoirs of an Arab-American Woman

Evelyn Shakir’s witty, wise, and beautifully written memoir explores her status as an Arab American woman, from the subtle bigotry she faced in Massachusetts as a second-generation Lebanese whose parents were not only foreign but eccentric, to...

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Sabriya Damascus Bitter Sweet

Sabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920’s. Central to the story is Sabriya’s journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness during her painful life. The national revolt is...

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Praise for the Women of the Family A Novel

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016. In the wake of resettlement from the desert to the hills overlooking Jerusalem, aging Bedouin patriarch Mannan wants his son Muhammad al-Asghar (the Youngest) to take on leadership and hold...

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Poison in the Air A Novel

The final novel from one of Lebanon’s greatest writers and narrator of Lebanese life. Poison in the Air, Jabbour Douaihy’s final novel, chronicles the decades of social, political, and economic turmoil leading up to and including...

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Other Lives

A new novel from award-winning Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan. “Did I live many lives or only one life enough for many women?” asks Miriyam in Other Lives. This third novel by Lebanese writer, Iman Humaydan, starkly and poignantly...

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News from Home Short Stories

Winner of the 2009 NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa From Zamfara up north to the Niger delta down south, with a finale in Lagos, this collection of stories and a novella respond to and amplify the newspaper headlines in a range of Nigerian voices...

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My Nakba A Palestinian's Odyssey of Love and Hope

The story of a refugee child uprooted with his family from their home in Jaffa The exodus of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 war—the Nakba, or catastrophe—is the starting point for this memoir by Samir Toubassy. But it is...

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My Damascus

A nostalgic voyage that reveals the Syrian capital’s majestic past   Writer and architect, Suad Amiry, was born in an old neighborhood of Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. In My Damascus she takes...

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Midnight Tales A Woman's Journey through the Middle East

“In actual fact, the only thing that matters in life is love, yet the inquisitive mind must be fed a few facts… Look at Baghdad!” commands Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi’s lively and imperious aunt Fatima, one of the characters in this...

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Making Mirrors Writing/Righting by and for Refugees

A poetry anthology that illuminates exile and displacement. Making Mirrors began on two continents, envisioned by Palestinian poet and aid worker, Jehan Bseiso, and Becky Thompson, a US-based poet changed by months of greeting refugees after their...

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Learning English A Novel

No matter how hard Rachid tries to recreate himself, to become educated and worldly- to “learn English” — it is impossible for this hip Beiruti with his cell phone and high-speed internet to sever the connection to his past in the...

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Just Another Jihadi Jane

A gripping novel that comments movingly on our lives today. It brilliantly engages prejudices and preconceptions and turns them upside down. A novel about friendship, faith, and alienation, Just Another Jihadi Jane tells the tale of Islamist...

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It's Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir

A deeply affecting memoir and a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In August 2000 Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the...

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In Jerusalem and Other Poems 1997-2018

LONG AWAITED FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF CELEBRATED PALESTINIAN POET. Born in 1977, Tamim Al-Barghouti is probably one of the most widely read Palestinian poets of his generation. His poetry readings are attended by thousands, sometimes packing...

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I Found Myself in Palestine: Stories of Love and Renewal from around the Globe

REFLECTIONS BY FOREIGNERS WHO HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED BY PALESTINEI Found Myself in Palestine is a collection of over twenty insightful and emotionally raw reflections about the experience of being a foreigner in Palestine.Contributors come from the United...

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Huddud's House A Novel

A haunting contemporary novel, longlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction, Huddud’s House is a rich tale of love in the time of war, based in the storied city of Damascus. How far is love willing to travel in search of its...

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Homes of the Heart A Book About Ramallah

Returning to his home town of Ramallah after long exile, the author is shocked to find the changes wrought, above all, by the Israeli occupation. An account—informative, lyrical and humorous by turn—of his own early life in the town is...