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A Traveller's History of Cyprus

A Traveller’s History of Cyprus offers a complete and authoritative history of the island’s past and also touches on the sensitive present-day issues for both sides of the island. Although Cyprus is a relatively small island, its...

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A Traveller's Companion to Istanbul

The history of the city where East meets West spans 28 centuries. Istanbul, the ancient and timeless heart of modern Turkey, is a city with its mythological origins in the seventh century BC. Founded as Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern...

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The House on Butterfly Street A Novel

In a country where the precarious rights of women and children can be reversed in an instant, legacies of enslavement and quiet resistance still reverberate across time. Present-day Casablanca, Morocco: Nadine Alam, a physician by training and housewife...

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The Journey Memoirs of an Egyptian Woman Student in America

This translation is an homage to a great literary figure and to those movements which carry on her legacy in her work. Never neutral and deeply engaged in politics, literature, people’s struggles, and what she calls the “most urgent...

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Old Woman and the River

After the ceasefire in 1988, the devastation to the landscape of Iraq wrought by the longest war of the twentieth century—the Iran-Iraq War—becomes visible. Eight years of fighting have turned nature upside down, with vast wastelands being...

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The Scent of Jasmine Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus

Journey to a world little known to Western readers. Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri’s refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence...

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The Storyteller of Jerusalem The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948

The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in...

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The Tree and other Stories

Abdallah al-Nasser’s attractive collection reveals the art of the short story in all its variety: vivid description is found alongside social satire, political reflection, traditional humorous anecdote and complex allegorical writing. A number...

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The Wind in My Hair

The Wind in My Hair is the memoir of Salwa Salem, who was just eight years old when she and many other Palestinians were uprooted by the Zionists in al-Nakba (the catastrophe). After her family fled to Jaffa and then to Nablus, she spent the rest of...

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Thinner than Skin

Thinner than Skin is a riveting novel about identity and belonging. It’s also a love story: between a young Pakistani man trying to make his way as photographer in America, and the daughter of a Pakistani father and German mother brought...

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Touch

Touch centers on a girl, the youngest of nine sisters in a Palestinian family. In the singular world of this novella, this young woman’s everyday experiences resonate until they have become as weighty as any national tragedy. The smallest...

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Under the Gaze of Angels--Stories

Under the Gaze of Angels offers treasured views of family and neighborhood life, native to the Galilee, in the years leading up to and following the upheavals of 1948.  A collection of four stories, told with simplicity and warmth, they...

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War in the Land of Egypt

Egypt on the eve of the 1973 October war. A young man has been drafted into the army. His father, the village elder, persuades a poor night-watchman to send his own son as a stand-in. But the impersonation plan goes horribly wrong, with tragicomic...

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99 Names of Allah

The 99 Names of Allah – A Journey to Know Our CreatorAll praise is for Allah, who gave us the Holy Qur’an as a light and guidance for all people. Through His words and the example of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, He teaches us who He is and how we can...

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When All Else Fails

A darkly humorous saga set in post-9/11 America and the Middle East When All Else Fails begins on September 12th, 2001. It is the story of Hunayn, a luckless and lovelorn Iraqi college student living in Orlando, Florida, after having graduated from...

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Wild Mulberries

In the hands of Adania Shibli, the discovery of these letters makes for a wrenching meditation on lives lived ensnared within the dictates of others. About the Authors Iman Humaydan Younes is a Lebanese novelist and freelance journalist. Her...

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Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

An adventure-packed historical folkloric novel about a Palestinian girl who develops great healing skills and travels around the region on a daring journey across empires. Winner of the prestigious Etisalat Award Sonia Nimr’s...

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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...