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The Book of Damascus

A City in Short Fiction

by Odai Al-Zoubi, Rasha Abbas, Omar Al-Jbaai, Khaled Khalifa, Zaher Omareen, Alaa Rashidi, Aboud Saeed, Rawaa Sonbol, Haseeb Al-Zainy, Salwa Zakzak, Fares Al-Zahaby ...

The night before Eid, three teenage boys hatch a plan to ‘borrow’ money so they can attend a fancy picnic, only to discover the money is cursed...After being injured in a bombing, a talented composer can no longer tell if his previous, ground-breaking compositions ever existed...Following the security services’ purge of his department, a government employee decides his only option is to kill his ... Read more

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The night before Eid, three teenage boys hatch a plan to ‘borrow’ money so they can attend a fancy picnic, only to discover the money is cursed...After being injured in a bombing, a talented composer can no longer tell if his previous, ground-breaking compositions ever existed...Following the security services’ purge of his department, a government employee decides his only option is to kill his
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The Bookseller of Kabul

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This phenomenal international bestseller is " an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand" ( Washington Post) .This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary ... Read more

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This phenomenal international bestseller is " an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand" ( Washington Post) .This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary
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Enter Ghost

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Winner of the Aspen Words Literary PrizeWinner of the Royal Society of Literature's Encore AwardShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year“Assured and formidable.” — Wall Street JournalAfter years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sis... ... Read more

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Winner of the Aspen Words Literary PrizeWinner of the Royal Society of Literature's Encore AwardShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year“Assured and formidable.” — Wall Street JournalAfter years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sis...
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The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing—one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeOne of the New York Times’s ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing—one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeOne of the New York Times’s
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Secret Son

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by Laila Lalami ...

A literary novel about a young man fighting for his future in poverty-stricken Morocco.Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father—whom he'd been led to believe was dead—is very much alive. A wealthy businessman, he ... Read more

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A literary novel about a young man fighting for his future in poverty-stricken Morocco.Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father—whom he'd been led to believe was dead—is very much alive. A wealthy businessman, he
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My Road from Damascus

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Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and
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Cactus Pear For My Beloved

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Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands.Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a ... Read more

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The Things I Would Tell You

British Muslim Women Write

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From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the 'Muslim Woman'. Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host and a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6. Follow the career of an actress with Middle-Eastern heritage whose dreams of playing a ghostbuster ... Read more

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From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the 'Muslim Woman'. Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host and a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6. Follow the career of an actress with Middle-Eastern heritage whose dreams of playing a ghostbuster
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The Clothesline Swing

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The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally, the hope of a new home in Canada.Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, The Clothesline Swing tells ... Read more

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Into Iraq

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My Forbidden Face

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Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her ... Read more

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The Book Collectors

A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

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"An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion . . . a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them." —Susan Orlean, New York Times -bestselling authorA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPROutside of Damascus, Daraya is the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Since 2012, every single day, bombs fell on this place—a place of homes and families, ... Read more

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