The novel touches on the chaos that colonial rule left in Lebanon—the rifts between Christians and Muslims, the Palestinian refugee camps and the batt...
In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Mehmet Azmi Bey, the governor of Beirut's Ottoman province, decided to send two young Arab intellectuals ...
The plot moves between the past and the present, and this motion brings us into the inner world of its protagonist, Tarek, to the depths of his consci...
In this novel, Nakash returns to Baghdad of the 1940s, a city of many languages and cultures, and recreates the social and linguistic, Jewish-Islamic,...
This anthology of poems is by the Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun, born in 1979. The anthology has been termed a poetic manifesto on refugee...
Half a rooster, a nose the length of seven cubits, a girl masquerading as a boy on her way to a duel with The Shah, a king and a vizier wandering thro...
This is the third novel in Elias Khoury’s trilogy, The Children of the Ghetto. It concludes the story of the journey of Adam Dannoun between Lydda, Ha...
The booklet Qushan contains five short stories by the late writer Mohammad Naffa who is known primarily as a master of the short story. Most of Naffa’...
In his novel, the Moroccan writer Mohammed Said Hjiouij builds an alternative biography of he Jewish-Moroccan writer Edmond Amran El Maleh, in which h...
Taha, by Amer Hlehel, is a one-person show portraying the life of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali. The play was staged in Arabic for the first ...
Muhammad Ali Taha is one of the leading Palestinian writers living in Israel today, and his unique voice has also attained great resonance throughout ...
n his critical and brave writing, Wannous lays into patriarchal society and all its ills—the silencing, oppression, violence, ignorance, submission, a...
Through this chimeric mirrored discourse, this novel is revealed to be one of the most important social literary works of Elias Khoury. It is a voyage...
The Last of the Angels, with its magical realism, paints a vibrant, humorous, nostalgic, and sometimes apocalyptic picture of Kirkuk, one of the citie...
With originality, inventiveness, resourcefulness, scheming, rebelliousness, and even humor, the heroes of the "cage" refuse time and again to reduce t...
a philosophical thriller in which the Lebanese novelist Najwa Baraka explores the Babylonian curse that threatened the Alyusr village' fate and transf...
Here is the movie that has never been produced, which Samuel Shimon wanted to make since the day he left the Assyrian village of his birth in Iraq, in...
This novella uses first-person narration to recount the experiences of a teacher in the course of a year during which he was the principal of a small ...
Inaam Kachachi moves between Palestine and Karachi, between Iraq, Venezuela, and Paris, shifting between time periods and political upheavals...
Shukair engages his readers skillfully with a sure hand and provides a rare and absorbing view of the daily life of the Palestinians under occupation....
A unique historical novel about Palestinian society in the 1940s, a society still trying to recover from the trauma of the Great Arab Revolt....
For two years, the two Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim exchanged letters that became an invaluable part of modern Arabic literatu...
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti, who was 45 years old when the French troops landed in Egypt on July 1, 1798, sat down in real time to document the defining ...
The micro stories collected in this booklet paint an outline of urban routine: from the city’s sculptures, through train cars, to cafés and bars and i...
Poems that are a women's coming of age journey in landscapes of uprooting, displacement and the refugee experience....
An elusive play about the liminal areas of Palestinian society in Israel, the seepage between politics and organized crime, and the connection between...
This is a novel about the horrors of the twentieth century, about the Jewish refugee, who wanders from the Kurdish city Sablah, to Bagdad, from Tehran...
The richest and most comprehensive anthology of Palestinian prose in Hebrew. It includes 73 stories by 57 authors who are Palestinian .residents of Is...
Stella Maris is the Haifa-based novel about Adam, a young Palestinian surrounded by remnants of memories that ceaselessly gnaw at his brain as he i...
A selection of Abu al-ʻAlaaʼ al-Ma‘arri’s daring and defiant oeuvre, which includes more than 1,500 poems. Al-Ma‘arri doubted every form of blind b...
With black humor, naiveté, and great compassion, the play tells a story of oppression and survival, of catastrophe and a continuing dream....
“The doctor’s voice, in his fractured French, woke me again. ‘Paint!’ Again and again I saw his white-cloaked figure, parting from me and shaking m...
Through this unusual diary, the readers are exposed to a dramatic and formative period in Palestine’s history: the end of the Ottoman Empire, the e...
Empires fall, rulers change, and bitter struggles take place between the Turks, the British, Jewish immigrants, and Palestinian leaders, city dwell...
Adam, the narrator, is a Palestinian citizen of Israel in his fifties who immigrated to New York after giving up the vision of an Israeli state and...
This is a charming short story for children about a tyrannical king and children who disobey him, by the renowned Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer.
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“Did the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marques know when he wrote Chronicle of a Death Foretold that he was revealing the letter’s secret…?” Elia...
