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  • The Nightmare Sequence

    by Omar Skar ...
    An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed–that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrait of the violence committed by Israel and its Western allies. Through poetry and visual art, Omar Sakr ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Perfect Victims

    And the Politics of Appeal

    by Mohammed El-Kurd ...
    PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERUSA TODAYBESTSELLER“Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.”**—Robin D. G. KelleyPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastnes... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Happiness of Blond People

    A Personal Meditation on the Dangers of Identity

    by Elif Shafak ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    The Happiness of Blond People by bestselling, multi-award-winning novelist Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul, is a powerful essay on immigration, multiculturalism and the experience of Muslims in Europe - available only as a Penguin Short."You know, I never understand. How come their children are so quiet and well disciplined?""Yeah," said the distressed father, his voice suddenly ... Read more

    $4.01 USD

  • Notes on a Foreign Country

    An American Abroad in a Post-American World

    by Suzy Hansen ...
    Pulitzer Prize Finalist: "Hansen's principal injunction to Americans to understand how others view them and their country's policies is timely and urgent." — The Washington PostWinner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan AwardA New York Times Notable BookNamed a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The ProgressiveIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and th... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

    Poems from Gaza

    by Mosab Abu Toha ...
    Winner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist“Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty."—The New York TimesIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza, first as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summer of Unrest: Tahrir - 18 Days of Grace

    by Nariman Youssef ...
    On 25th January this year 50,000 people descended on Tahrir Square in Cairo to protest against president Hosni Mubarak. What followed was an extraordinary 18 days when the square became the focal point for the hopes and fears of Egypt's people, in a situation often joyous but also intense, as the military moved in and Mubarak supporters began to infiltrate the area.Nariman Youssef was in Tahrir ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rifqa

    by Mohammed El-Kurd ...
    Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience.With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa’s exile from Haifa to his family’s current ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • You Will Not Kill Our Imagination

    A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times

    by Saeed Teebi ...
    Nominated for The Trillium Book AwardINSTANT BESTSELLERA vital, fearless memoir explores what it means to be a Palestinian in this moment, the effects of the genocide on Palestinian art and imagination, and that to even claim a belonging to the land from a country thousands of miles away is an act of subversion—a book that Omar El Akkad says “so perfectly contextualizes and humanizes so much of ... Read more

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  • Veiled Courage

    Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

    by Cheryl Benard ...
    In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Turkey

    The Insane and the Melancholy

    by Ece Temelkuran ...
    Translated by Zeynep Beler ...
    Starting with the basic question "what is this place?", award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP government – for which she lost her job as a journalist – Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and artistic expression.The result is a beautifully rendered account of the struggles, hopes and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Letters from Gaza

    Post October 2023, the first collection of in-the-moment reflections from the people of Gaza; written from the vortex of turmoil.

    by Mahmoud Alshaer, Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq ...
    LETTERS FROM GAZA is more than a book - it's a voice from the silence, a heartbeat in the wreckage. Through poetry, letters, and monologues, 30 Gazans lay bare their fears, grief, and relentless hope amid devastation. Since October 2023 the world has been witnessing the unfolding of the largest humanitarian crisis of this century. And the men, women and children spoken of around the world, fight ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Come from the Shadows

    The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

    by Terry Glavin ...
    Come from the Shadows is not about the Afghanistan we may think we know. It is not about the country depicted in urgent dispatches from embedded reporters; it isn't about the country evoked by anti-war protestors or the one that figures in heated political controversies over the treatment of prisoners. Instead, this is a book about the Afghanistan that lies "outside the wire," far from the Taliban ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus