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Where the Jasmine Blooms

by Zeina Sleiman ...

Yasmine enters Lebanon escaping a messy divorce and seeking the family, culture, and connection that her Palestinian mother hid during their life in Toronto. It’s 2006, and she’s meeting her cousin Reem for the first time after connecting over social media. Reem teaches Arabic and lives in a refugee camp with her mother and sister. Her brother Ahmed lived there too until he went to Syria for work ... Read more

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Yasmine enters Lebanon escaping a messy divorce and seeking the family, culture, and connection that her Palestinian mother hid during their life in Toronto. It’s 2006, and she’s meeting her cousin Reem for the first time after connecting over social media. Reem teaches Arabic and lives in a refugee camp with her mother and sister. Her brother Ahmed lived there too until he went to Syria for work
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Sanctuary Regions and the Struggle for Belonging

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by Zeina Sleiman-Long ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book argues that local governments and institutions across the state of California that offer various forms of sanctuaries to undocumented immigrants create “sanctuary regions.” These regions are safe zones for undocumented immigrants and facilitate their ability to make claims for human rights. The book also argues that these regions create an important form of resistance to federal state ... Read more

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This book argues that local governments and institutions across the state of California that offer various forms of sanctuaries to undocumented immigrants create “sanctuary regions.” These regions are safe zones for undocumented immigrants and facilitate their ability to make claims for human rights. The book also argues that these regions create an important form of resistance to federal state
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Against the Loveless World

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by susan abulhawa ...

Arab American Book Award Winner2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist2020 Palestine Book Awards WinnerLonglisted for Rathbones Folio Prize“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden world... ... Read more

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Arab American Book Award Winner2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist2020 Palestine Book Awards WinnerLonglisted for Rathbones Folio Prize“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden world...
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Salt Houses

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Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book AwardA Best Book of the Year: NPR •NYLON •Kirkus • Bustle • BookPage"What does home mean when you no longer have a house—or a homeland? This beautiful novel traces one Palestinian family’s struggle with that question and how it can haunt generati... ... Read more

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Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book AwardA Best Book of the Year: NPR •NYLON •Kirkus • Bustle • BookPage"What does home mean when you no longer have a house—or a homeland? This beautiful novel traces one Palestinian family’s struggle with that question and how it can haunt generati...
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The Bookseller Of Kabul

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other . . . compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMESFor more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers ... Read more

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other . . . compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMESFor more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers
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Honeymoon in Purdah

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To go beyond the legacy of revolution, religious fundamentalism and veiled women and find the real people of Iran, a young Canadian dons the cloak of Islam. The result of Alison Wearing's journey is a warm, funny and shocking collection of riveting portraits and stories about the generous, irrepressible people she met. With a novelist's love of language and eye for detail, she takes the reader ... Read more

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To go beyond the legacy of revolution, religious fundamentalism and veiled women and find the real people of Iran, a young Canadian dons the cloak of Islam. The result of Alison Wearing's journey is a warm, funny and shocking collection of riveting portraits and stories about the generous, irrepressible people she met. With a novelist's love of language and eye for detail, she takes the reader
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Written in the Stars

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**In this “evocative” (School Library Journal) novel, a young Pakistani American teenager breaks her family’s one rule and is whisked away to the homeland to be forced into an arranged marriage.“A wonderfully complex love story unlike any you’ve read before. . . . Both entertaining and important.”—Matt de la Peña, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Here“Sheds light on the difficult ... Read more

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**In this “evocative” (School Library Journal) novel, a young Pakistani American teenager breaks her family’s one rule and is whisked away to the homeland to be forced into an arranged marriage.“A wonderfully complex love story unlike any you’ve read before. . . . Both entertaining and important.”—Matt de la Peña, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Here“Sheds light on the difficult
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Seven Heavens Away

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Sometimes you walk two steps and find yourselftwo alleys away, two gates away,two hills away, two seas away,two continents away,or seven heavens away.In this taut and heartbreaking debut novel, a Palestinian teenager comes of age amid escalating violence in Jerusalem. After their friend Hassan is killed by an Israeli, Aziz and Mustafa are shaken to their core, drawn into the orbit of Hassan's ... Read more

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Sometimes you walk two steps and find yourselftwo alleys away, two gates away,two hills away, two seas away,two continents away,or seven heavens away.In this taut and heartbreaking debut novel, a Palestinian teenager comes of age amid escalating violence in Jerusalem. After their friend Hassan is killed by an Israeli, Aziz and Mustafa are shaken to their core, drawn into the orbit of Hassan's
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Floodlines

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“Erudite and engaging.”—The New YorkerSet between London and Baghdad, Saleem Haddad’s brilliant second novel is a sweeping, multigenerational tale of art, exile, memory, and the enduring legacies of war.In the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other’s orbit by the rediscovery of their late father’s long-lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; ... Read more

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“Erudite and engaging.”—The New YorkerSet between London and Baghdad, Saleem Haddad’s brilliant second novel is a sweeping, multigenerational tale of art, exile, memory, and the enduring legacies of war.In the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other’s orbit by the rediscovery of their late father’s long-lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab;
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The Lady from Tel Aviv

Translated by Elliott Colla ...

by Raba'I Al-Madhoun ...

Series series Saqi Bookshelf
WINNER OF THE ENGLISH PEN AWARD Walid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to embracing his mother and reconnecting with the people and place he once left behind. Boarding the flight from London, Walid's life intersects with that of Dana, an Israeli actress, on her way back to Tel Aviv. As the night sky hurtles past, what each confides and ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE ENGLISH PEN AWARD Walid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to embracing his mother and reconnecting with the people and place he once left behind. Boarding the flight from London, Walid's life intersects with that of Dana, an Israeli actress, on her way back to Tel Aviv. As the night sky hurtles past, what each confides and
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Politica

LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD

by Yumna Kassab ...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD‘a compelling, intricate and multifaceted tale’ –*The Saturday Paper‘Politica* can’t make war make sense (what can?), but it does offer a small balm. In her book Kassab looks horror in the eye, dignifies private desires and grieves their loss, and in doing so reminds us what being human ... Read more

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD‘a compelling, intricate and multifaceted tale’ –*The Saturday Paper‘Politica* can’t make war make sense (what can?), but it does offer a small balm. In her book Kassab looks horror in the eye, dignifies private desires and grieves their loss, and in doing so reminds us what being human
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The Drone Eats with Me

A Gaza Diary

by Atef Abu Saif ...

An ordinary Gazan’s “devastating contemporary war journal” that chronicles his fear, sadness, and boredom during Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza (Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient)The Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare. Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza lasted 51 days, killed 2,145 ... Read more

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