A darkly comic coming-of-age story from Cairo's shadowy alleys and smoky rooftops. When a seventeen-year-old flees his abusive father to chase his dream of becoming a writer, he lands in a crumbling Cairo apartment with a chain-smoking landlady and her...
A darkly comic coming-of-age story from Cairo's shadowy alleys and smoky rooftops. When a seventeen-year-old flees his abusive father to chase his dream of becoming a writer, he lands in a crumbling Cairo apartment with a chain-smoking landlady and her...
A lyrical novel of omens, shipwrecks, and the stories that carry us home. A violent storm crashes through the Arabian Sea and leaves a boy shipwrecked on the remote shores of Ras Madrakah, a village on Oman's eastren coast. The villagers believe he is a...
A lyrical novel of omens, shipwrecks, and the stories that carry us home. A violent storm crashes through the Arabian Sea and leaves a boy shipwrecked on the remote shores of Ras Madrakah, a village on Oman's eastren coast. The villagers believe he is a...
A visionary novel of sacred friendship across centuries, cultures, and empires. A mosque. A memory. A map between centuries. In 20th-century Alexandria, a half-blind Italian architect sits quietly in the courtyard of a mosque he once built—listening not...
A visionary novel of sacred friendship across centuries, cultures, and empires. A mosque. A memory. A map between centuries. In 20th-century Alexandria, a half-blind Italian architect sits quietly in the courtyard of a mosque he once built—listening not...
A powerful, firsthand account of Afghanistan's struggle against empire. In The Rock of the Land, acclaimed Mauritanian war journalist Ahmad Vall Dine presents a groundbreaking work of translated Arabic war journalism—a personal and political...
A powerful, firsthand account of Afghanistan's struggle against empire. In The Rock of the Land, acclaimed Mauritanian war journalist Ahmad Vall Dine presents a groundbreaking work of translated Arabic war journalism—a personal and political...
A bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival.Thirteen-year-old Kamiran is fleeing the collapse of Syria when his body begins to harden—literally—turning to chalk. As his transformation unfolds, he pours his memories, secrets, and...
A bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival.Thirteen-year-old Kamiran is fleeing the collapse of Syria when his body begins to harden—literally—turning to chalk. As his transformation unfolds, he pours his memories, secrets, and...
