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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...

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Fragments of Memory A Story of a Syrian Family

An autobiographical novel, set in the early 20th century, about the life of a boy born to a poor family in northern Syria. Fragments of Memory offers a picture of reality that is simple, direct, and quite emotional… an image of Syrian society...

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Flying Carpets Short Stories

A charming and captivating voyage through time and space.  Flying Carpets is a story collection in the grand tradition of Arab storytelling. In it, Habra masterfully waves her writing wand and takes us on a journey as we read about people...

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Flawed Landscape Poems 1987-2008

“These are an exile’s poems, marked by loss but offered with a generous spirit. Through them, the landscape transforms-revealing, through Elmusa’s vision, its difficult beauty. This is not grounds for despair, then. But ground to work...

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Extraordinary Rendition American Writers on Palestine

Sixty-five writers contribute to a groundbreaking anthology on Palestine. This collection brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in...

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Endings

“Drought. Drought again! When drought seasons come, things begin to change. Life and objects change. Humans change too, and no more so than in their moods!” It is not long before the reader of Endings discovers that this drought is...

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Dune Song

“I came to the Sahara to be buried.” After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity fractured and her American dream destroyed. She returns to Morocco to make her...

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Disfigured A Saudi Woman's Story of Triumph over Violence

Every morning for over six years, Rania al-Baz has been the smiling face of a family program on Saudi television. She was a young, beautiful Saudi TV news anchor- the first woman to have such a job- when her abusive husband beat her into a coma and left...

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Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian A Memoir

When Jacob Nammar was a young boy growing up in Harret al-Nammareh, his family, his friends, and the streets of his West Jerusalem neighborhood were the center of his life. It wasn’t long, however, before his existence was turned upside down when...