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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...

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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...