Biography & History

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Balcony over the Fakihani

REISSUE The title story of Liyana Badr’s remarkable collection of three short novellas interweaves the narratives of three Palestinians, two women and one man, relating their successive uprootings: from Palestine in 1948, from Jordan during Black...

Writings on the Wall Palestinian Oral Histories

“[We express our] grave concern about the continuing construction, contrary to international law, by Israel of the wall inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem … in departure from the Armistice Line...

The Moor's Last Stand How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End

The Moor’s Last Stand presents the poignant story of Boabdil, the last Muslim king of Granada. Betrayed by his family and undermined by faction and internal conflict, Boabdil was defeated in 1492 by the forces of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella...

The Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Changing Middle East

The widespread revolt that began with the Tunisian revolution of December 2010 and inspired uprisings in several Arab countries is arguably one of the most important events to take place in the Middle East this century. But despite the popularity of the...

The Arab Americans A History

Gregory Orfalea’s new and definitive work spans a century and a half of the life of Arab immigrants and their descendants in the United States. In The Arab Americans: A History, Orfalea has marshaled over 150 interviews and 25 years of research to...

Shifting Sands The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East

A fresh look at the Middle East today, tomorrow, and in the past: fifteen writers, with an introduction by Raja Shehadeh, author of the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks, and Penny Johnson. At a time when the Middle East dominates media headlines...

Out of Arabia Phoenicians, Arabs, and the Discovery of Europe

The first volume in a series that examines the spread of cultures from the East into Europe About the Author Warwick Ball is a Near Eastern archaeologist who has spent over twenty-five years carrying out excavations, architectural studies, and monumental...