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 searing poetic vision of violence, love, and survival in a broken world. In Premonitions News Flash, Iraqi poet Yass Assaidi offers one of the most urgent works of translated Arabic Iraqi poetry in recent years, confronting the brutalities of power,...
A searing poetic vision of violence, love, and survival in a broken world. In Premonitions News Flash, Iraqi poet Yass Assaidi offers one of the most urgent works of translated Arabic Iraqi poetry in recent years, confronting the brutalities of power,...
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...
The Handsome Jew is a challenging and provocative novel that urges/ invites Muslims and Jews to contemplate themselves and the way they see the other through a doomed love story. This powerful novel tells the tragic saga of two lovers, Salem, a Jew, and...
The Handsome Jew is a challenging and provocative novel that urges/ invites Muslims and Jews to contemplate themselves and the way they see the other through a doomed love story. This powerful novel tells the tragic saga of two lovers, Salem, a Jew, and...
When the Egyptian architect Mukhtar arrives in Oman to oversee a building project, he finds it's a bait-and-switch. Instead of drawing up building plans, he is trapped into doing back-breaking manual labour. As Mukhtar is forced from one demeaning job to...
When the Egyptian architect Mukhtar arrives in Oman to oversee a building project, he finds it's a bait-and-switch. Instead of drawing up building plans, he is trapped into doing back-breaking manual labour. As Mukhtar is forced from one demeaning job to...
In A Childhood Spent By The Shady Slope, the first installment of Ahmed Toufiq's autobiographical series, readers are transported to the Amazigh villages on the southern slopes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains. Narrated in the third person, the story...
In A Childhood Spent By The Shady Slope, the first installment of Ahmed Toufiq's autobiographical series, readers are transported to the Amazigh villages on the southern slopes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains. Narrated in the third person, the story...
