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HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY PRESS

2016

ENGLISH TITLES

COMING SOON 2

RECENT RELEASES 9

POPULAR PICKS 16

ARABIC TITLES

COMING SOON 26

NEW RELEASES 33

POPULAR PICKS 44

ENGLISH BACKLIST 53

ARABIC BACKLIST 55

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NEW AND CURRENT TITLES 2016

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BLOODSTONE TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH

SEASON OF MARTYRDOM JAMAL NAJI

SOULS ON KILIMANJARO IBRAHIM NASRALLAH

A CLOUDY DAY ON THE WESTERN SHORE MOHAMED AL-MANSI QANDIL

AFTER COFFEE ABDELRASHID MAHMOUDI

A SUSPENDED LIFE ATEF ABU SAIF

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‘Mackintosh-Smith has all the assets a travel writer needs: erudition, rather subversive good humour and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complex detail in a few telling lines.’

– Daily Telegraph

Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a British-born, Oxford-educated

Arabist, award-winning travel writer and lecturer. For almost

thirty years his home has been Sanaa. Tim presented a

major BBC documentary series on his experiences walking

in the footsteps of 14th century traveller Ibn Batuttah.

GENRE: FICTION

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BloodstoneTim Mackintosh-Smith

• Fiction debut from a celebrated travel writer and award-

winning documentarian.

• For fans of Conn Iggulden and Robert Harris.

Terrorists are nothing new.

The year is 1368 and Granada is under threat from violent

extremists. Enter Abu Abdallah, the penniless globetrotter

who has had wives and concubines on three continents but

is still searching for the right woman, and his West African

slave Sinan, the one with the brawn, the brains, the looks –

and the demons in his past.

They arrive to find Granada’s labyrinthine palace-citadel, the

Alhambra, nearing its triumphant completion. But Sinan

and Abu Abdallah are drawn into a darker maze, where

inexplicable events and baffling mysteries lie in wait at every

turn and threaten to ruin forever the delicate balance of

Muslim-Christian power in Spain.

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Season of MartyrdomJamal NajiOriginal Title: Mawsim Al-Houriyat Translation: Paula Haydar

• Captures the post-Arab Spring atmosphere across the

Middle East.

• For all those who loved The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Amidst the violence rippling across the Middle East, a

wealthy businessman is visited by an oracle and is given

news that shakes the very foundations of his existence.

Meanwhile, a twenty-year-old young man is fighting with

the Islamic faction against the Syrian regime. But torn

apart by feelings of shame and betrayal, he sets himself on

a course headed towards revenge and self-destruction. So

begins a journey that takes readers across a region overtaken

by sectarian and religious strife, as two men – at different

stages of their lives – embark on their ill-begotten, unholy

missions.

With nuance and precision, Naji captures the characters and

landscape of a post-Arab Spring Middle East, taking readers

from Jordan to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and even India.

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ISBN: 978-9927118111

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Jamal Naji is a Jordanian short story writer and novelist

of Palestinian descent, who was shortlisted for the

International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2010. He

was awarded the Prize of the Jordanian State 2014 for his

narrative writing. Naji works as head of the Intelligentsia

Centre for Research and Survey in Amman, Jordan.

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Also

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p.37Born in a refugee camp in Jordan, Ibrahim Nasrallah

is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, painter and

photographer. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro

was the first to include participation of an Arab author and

was in support of charity work for Palestinian and Arab

children in need of medical care.

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Souls on KilimanjaroIbrahim NasrallahOriginal Title: Arwah Kilimanjaro Translation: Paula Haydar

• From an award-winning author, previously shortlisted for

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2009.

• A much-loved bestselling author in the Arab world.

They all came knowing what they wanted from the

mountain, few knew what the mountain wanted from them.

A group of disparate individuals, two of whom are

Palestinian adolescents who have lost their legs in Israeli

bomb strikes, is preparing to summit Mount Kilimanjaro.

They have nothing – and everything – in common.

Hailing from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and America, the

characters test the limits of their physical and emotional

strengths to prove to themselves that they can transcend

their strife-ridden histories and accomplish the unexpected.

Nasrallah’s work is a page-turning, nail-biting tale of

adventure, as well as an ode to the resilience of the human

spirit.

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Award-winning Egyptian novelist Mohamed Al-Mansi Qandil

was born in the Nile Delta. He went to medical school, and

worked as a countryside doctor before turning to literature.

He has published several novels, short story collections and

children’s books. He now lives in Canada.

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A Cloudy Day on the Western ShoreMohamed Al-Mansi QandilOriginal Title: Yawm Gha’em Fi Al-Bar Al-Gharbi Translation: Barbara Romaine

• A compulsively readable historical yarn evoking a

fascinating period of great archaelogical discovery, in the

vein of Kate Mosse’s Sepulchre.

• Based on historical events and real-life figures.

“‘If I were English like you,’ he said to me as he was dragged

away by the police, ‘Would you have treated me this way?’”

It’s the dawn of the 20th century, and Britain’s glittering

Empire extends far and wide, full of the dangerously

seductive promise of untapped riches.

Howard is on an expedition to locate Tutankhamen’s tomb

in Egypt. Amidst growing unrest between the tyrannical

British rulers and the so-called ‘barbarians’, he meets Aisha –

a bewildering mix of contradictions whose profile bears

more than a passing resemblance to Nefertiti’s beautiful face

depicted on the Pharaonic relics Howard loves so much.

A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore is a page-turning gallop

through a momentous occasion in recent world history.

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Abdulrashid Mahmoudi is an Egyptian poet, writer,

translator and academic. He studied philosophy at the

University of Cairo and University of London. Mahmoudi

has published many academic works, as well as poetry, short

stories and a novel. After Coffee is his second novel.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 978-9927118302

PRICE: £ 16.99

PUB DATE: 22/09/2016

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After CoffeeAbdelrashid MahmoudiOriginal Title: Ba‘d Al-Qahwa Translation: Nashwa Gowanlock

• Winner of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Award in 2013.

• Dark humour, experimental prose and a peppering of

classical Arabic narrative.

Medhat is an orphaned boy who grows up shuffling between

various farming families in the beautiful province of

Ismailia, north of Egypt.

What was intended to be a brief visit for the five-year-old

to Cairo ends up being the beginning of a nomadic life no

one could have imagined for him. Medhat’s journey takes

him across the many landmarks of Egypt and beyond, all

the way to Vienna where he discovers that his feelings of

displacement still haunt him at the core.

In a narrative that interweaves aspects of Egyptian folklore,

epic prose and classical literature, Mahmoudi skillfully

presents the conflict between the man in exile who reflects

longingly on his history and origins, and the village boy who

belonged nowhere.

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A Suspended LifeAtef Abu SaifOriginal Title: Hayat Mu‘allaqahTranslation: Jonathan Wright

• Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

in 2015.

• From Palestine’s brightest young literary talent, previously

published in the Guardian and the New York Times.

Naim lives in a Gazan refugee camp. A larger-than-life

character who everyone in the camp knows, he runs the only

print shop in the area, where he prints posters of martyred

members of the community. It is his form of protest – his

way of honouring dead friends.

This activity makes him a direct target and brings unwanted

attention to the people in the camp who are trying to exist

below-the-radar in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of

the world.

At its heart, A Suspended Life is about just that – trying to

reclaim a life that has been suspended, frozen – temporarily

or indefinitely – by war.

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‘Atef Abu Saif dares to write about Gaza from an angle quite apart from the news bulletins . . . He is defying the unitary narrative that the media have associated with Gaza.’

– Mourid Barghouti

Atef Abu Saif was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza

Strip, the eldest of 14 children. He still lives in Gaza, where

he teaches Political Science at the University of Al-Azhar.

His writing has been published in the New York Times and in

the Guardian.

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THE BAMBOO STALK SAUD ALSANOUSI

BITTER ALMONDS LILAS TAHA

THE GLOBAL MAJLIS DR. HAMAD BIN ABDULAZIZ AL-KAWARI

THE HOLY SAIL ABDULAZIZ AL-MAHMOUD

THE BLACK BOOK OF ARABIA SHEIKHA HEND AL QASSEMI

TELEPATHY AMIR TAG ELSIR

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‘Alsanousi is a voice of conscience.’

– Independent

The Bamboo StalkSaud AlsanousiOriginal Title: Saq Al-BambooTranslation: Jonathan Wright

• Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

in 2013.

• Bestseller in the Middle East.

• Powerful and outspoken, this book took the Arab world

by storm.

‘Ambitious, cultivated and brave’ – Financial Times

Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work

as a maid. She meets Rashid, and with all the wide-eyed

naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when

she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of the Gulf War

growing louder, Rashid abandons her and sends her home

with their baby son José.

Brought up struggling with his dual identity in the

Philippines, José clings to the hope of returning to his

father’s country when he turns eighteen. Will his Kuwaiti

family live up to his expectations?

Alsanousi crafts a captivating saga that boldly deals with

issues of identity and alienation.

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Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born

in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti

publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi,

and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper. He lives

in Kuwait.

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Lilas Taha is a writer at heart, an electrical engineer by

training and an advocate for domestic abuse victims by

choice. She was born in Kuwait to a Syrian mother and a

Palestinian father, and immigrated to the US following the

Gulf War.

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PAPERBACK: 978-9927118197

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Bitter AlmondsLilas Taha

• Set in Palestine and Syria, a novel about the most

universal emotion of them all: love.

• Perfect for all those who loved Mornings in Jenin.

In the fight for freedom, will he lose his heart?

Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, displaced

by violence, and driven by forces beyond his control to find

his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold on to:

a love that propels him forward and gives him hope.

Nadia is maturing into womanhood in a refugee community

in Damascus. She tries hard to cope with the tough realities

of her world, but is confronted with a cruel load thrust upon

her by a selfish brother. Can she break out of her traditional

social mold to create her own destiny?

Heart-breaking and moving, Bitter Almonds is about

displacement and exile, family duty and honor, and the

universal feelings of love and loss.‘Written with compassion..., this is a beautiful and moving tribute to the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.’

– Ann Weisgarber,Author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree

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The Global MajlisDr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-KawariOriginal Title: A‘la Qadri Ahli Al‘azmTranslation: Karim Traboulsi

• An analysis of the most important cultural, political and

social issues of the 21st century.

With a career in international politics and diplomacy that spans

decades, Dr. Hamad Al-Kawari offers his unique perspective

to the complex social and political issues facing Qatar and

the Arab world. A mixture of personal stories, professional

biography, and intellectual observations, The Global Majlis

covers themes ranging from methods of negotiation to cultural

diplomacy, education, art and literature, and the path to

freedom. In doing so, Dr. Al-Kawari offers cultural solutions to

pressing political and social dilemmas seen in both the Middle

East and the world at large, such as injustice and intolerance.

The Global Majlis is a must read for anyone passionate about

cross-cultural dialogue, global citizenship, and the Middle East –

as seen through the eyes of a decorated diplomat and

a statesman.

Currently Minister Adviser of HH the Emir of Qatar, Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari served as Qatar’s Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, from 2008 to 2016. Fluent in French, English and Arabic, Dr. Al-Kawari spent many years as a diplomat while serving as Qatar’s Ambassador to Lebanon, Syria, France, and the United States. He was Qatar’s representative to the United Nations between 1984 and 1990. In addition to authoring a number of books, his political and cultural essays have been published in several Arab journals.

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Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist.

He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula

newspapers as well as aljazeera.net. Abdulaziz has previously

authored The Corsair.

The Holy SailAbdulaziz Al-MahmoudOriginal Title: Al-Shiraa‘ Al-MoqaddasTranslation: Karim Traboulsi

• In the vein of Clive Cussler, a swashbuckling tale of

adventure and high treason.

• Historical fiction covering a neglected episode of history.

• Author is a much celebrated Qatari writer.

In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf.

In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist…

Portugal, 1486. Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages,

and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is

still unchartered territory…

Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious

fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl

falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes

are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on

securing the profitable spice trade.

Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous

historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility,

while guiding us around the world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah

and Istanbul.

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ISBN: 978-9927101670

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PUB DATE: 03/12/2015

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‘The author has brilliantly established a dramatic structure with great political awareness… an excellent historical mind.’

– Al Jazeera

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The Black Book of ArabiaSheikha Hend Al Qassemi

• Original, witty, and feisty – a delightful new voice

from the Gulf.

• A collection of short stories – some light-hearted, some

heart-wrenching, some feminist – all surprising.

‘The Black Book of Arabia is a snapshot into a world and

lifestyle with which most Western readers are unfamiliar,

and it has value in opening those doors…’

– Autumn Markus, NY Journal of Books

Lifting the veil on life and love beyond the palace gates.

These candid, moving and inspirational tales, based on true

stories, will resonate with readers around the world.

Meet a princess whose best friend literally tries to steal her

wedding, down to her bridal shoes and fiancé; a bride who

mysteriously goes blind on her wedding day and stays blind

for years; a woman whose romantic Parisian honeymoon

proves too good to be true; and a jealous wife who lures her

husband into falling in love with another woman.

A modern day Scheherazade, Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi –

a princess from the UAE – spins fantastic tales of love,

betrayal and heroism from around the Arabian Gulf.

Sheikha Hend Faisal Al Qassemi is Emirati and lives in

Sharjah and Doha. An accomplished artist, successful

entrepreneur, and committed philanthropist, she is editor-

in-chief of Velvet, a high-end fashion and lifestyle magazine

published in Dubai and distributed around the world.

‘The stories leap across social class, strata and gender, zeroing on private tales of love, betrayal ad heroism from across the Gulf.’

– Rob Garrett, National

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‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers.’

– Daily News

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9927101892

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PUB DATE: 18/06/2015

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E-PUB ISBN: 978-9927118067

TelepathyAmir Tag ElsirOriginal Title: TaqsTranslation: William Hutchins

• An elegant, spine-chilling literary novella.

• From an author shortlisted for the International Prize

for Arabic Fiction 2011.

• A bestselling author in the Middle East.

A psychological thriller blurring the line between literary

fantasy and real-life tragedy.

A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most

idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in

an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never

met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely

death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man

from a similar fate?

Elsir takes his readers on a terrifying journey through the

unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own

creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides of Khartoum

– the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-stricken

underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of

insane asylums and of the dubious relationship between

imagination and reality.

Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor and has

published a number of novels, biographies and volumes

of 7 poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter was shortlisted for

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. Having

studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College

of Medicine, he now lives in Doha.

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BEIRUT, BEIRUT SONALLAH IBRAHIM

JUNE RAIN JABBOUR DOUAIHY

LAND OF NO RAIN AMJAD NASSER

THROWING SPARKS ABDO KHAL

THE ARCH AND THE BUTTERFLY MOHAMMED ACHAARI

DAYS OF IGNORANCE LAILA ALJOHAN

BLUE LORRIES RADWA ASHOUR

THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF OBJECTS MAI AL-NAKIB

GOLDA SLEPT HERE SUAD AMIRY

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After studying at Cairo University, Sonallah Ibrahim worked

as a journalist until he was imprisoned in 1959 for his

political activities. Since his debut prison novel, That Smell,

he has been a full-time writer. He is particularly celebrated

for the way he uses literature to speak out against political

regimes.

‘Ibrahim is a sort of oracle.’

– New Yorker

Beirut, BeirutSonallah IbrahimOriginal Title: Beirut, BeirutTranslation: Chip Rossetti

• From one of the most important and controversial

Egyptian writers of this generation.

• A fascinating insight into the region and some of the

historical reasons of ongoing unrest.

A city – known for its light-heartedness, vibrancy and

capacity for fun – is ripped apart by war.

November, 1980. An Egyptian writer has chosen the wrong

time to come to Beirut in search of a publisher for his

controversial book. Men with machine guns are on every

street corner. When the writer meets an old friend from

his revolutionary student days, he is introduced to two

fascinating women: idealistic film-maker Antoinette and

Lamia, the seductive wife of his would-be publisher. His

attentions inevitably turn towards the two women, but

the background rumble of strife and struggle becomes

increasingly hard to ignore.

Based on the author’s real-life experience of the civil war in

Lebanon, Beirut, Beirut is an exploration of how, even in the

midst of chaos and violence, universals such as love, desire

and yearning are still always our guiding forces.

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‘Cries out for an English translation.’ – National

‘A powerful and complex novel.’

– Le Canard Enchâiné ‘A poweful novel which one cannot fail to recommend.’

– Etudes

Jabbour Douaihy was born in 1949 in Zgharta, Lebanon. He

is a professor of French literature at the Lebanese University

and has published numerous novels and short story

collections. He lives in Lebanon.

June RainJabbour DouaihyOriginal Title: Matar HzayranTranslation: Paula Haydar

• Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

in 2006.

• Highly Commended for the 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal

Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

On June 16, 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern

Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath

of the massacre, the town is split in two. But lives once so

closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbours

turn into enemies, and husbands and wives are forced to

choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan.

At the center of this novel is Eliyya, who, twenty years after

emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about

the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre:

the father he never knew.

With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy describes that

fateful Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the

traditions and affections of village life were consumed by

violence and revenge.

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Amjad Nasser, a Jordanian poet born in 1955, has written

numerous volumes of poetry and several travel memoirs.

He has worked for newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus and

since 1987 he has lived in London where he is managing

editor and cultural editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily

newspaper. Land of No Rain is his first novel.

‘Delightful and profound. Like any great work of real literature, Land of No Rain addresses the living in order to open a window for dialogue with the dead...’

– Elias Khoury

Land of No RainAmjad NasserOriginal Title: Haythou La Tasqut Al-Amtar Translation: Jonathan Wright

• Highly Commended for the 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal

Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

• First novel by a highly-regarded Jordanian poet.

• An uncompromising look at the personal and emotional

cost of political exile.

‘One of the best books I’ve read in a long time.’ – Ahdaf Soueif

‘An irresistible shape-shifting novel.’ – Guardian

Land of No Rain takes place in Hamiya, a fictional Arab

country run by military commanders who treat power as a

personal possession to be handed down from one generation

to the next. The main character was forced into exile from

Hamiya twenty years earlier for taking part in a failed

assassination attempt on the military ruler known as the

Grandson. On his return to his homeland, he encounters

family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first

love, but most importantly he grapples with his own self, the

person he left behind.

Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the

hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.

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‘Abdo Khal shines a light on life at the bottom of the heap, in Saudi’s often forgotten villages. His voice blends image-rich poetic classicism with contemporary patois, which makes for an unmistakably Arab mix.’ – Guardian

Born in Saudi Arabia in 1962, Abdo Khal studied political

science and began his career as a preacher before becoming

a primary school teacher. He turned to writing as a way of

attacking the corruption of the wealthy in the Arab world.

Throwing SparksAbdo KhalOriginal Title: Tarmi Bi ShararTranslation: Maia Tabet and Michael K. Scott

• Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2010.

• Author is a former fundamentalist preacher, now a hard-

hitting and controversial novelist.

• Novel is banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan.

A shocking and satirical novel that explores the devastating

effects of limitless wealth.

When an opulent palace is built on the Jeddah waterfront,

ambitious Tariq sees a way out of his life of petty crime. He

stares longingly at the huge gates, dreaming of the luxuries

beyond.

But the dream quickly turns into a nightmare. The Palace

is ruled by an enigmatic Master whose influence in the city

is as wide as it is wicked. When Tariq succeeds in being

appointed to serve the Master it becomes clear that he has

been chosen for a single, terrible task.

Years later, Tariq is trapped. He has become no more than

a slave – and there is only one way out.

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Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet,

short story writer, journalist, former Minister of Culture

in Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers.

His work has been translated into English, French, Spanish,

Russian and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second

novel.

The Arch and the ButterflyMohammed AchaariOriginal Title: Al-Qaws Wa Al-FarashaTranslation: Aida Bamia

• Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011.

• Written by a leading Moroccan writer and political figure.

One letter, one morning. And his life was never

the same again.

As he prepares to leave for work one morning, Youssef

Al-Firsiwi finds a mysterious letter under his door. In a

single devastating line he learns that his only son, Yacine,

whom he believed to be studying engineering in Paris,

has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist

resistance.

Yousif, the son of a Moroccan father and German-born

mother, is quickly caught up in a mesh of family tragedies

that reflect the changing world he lives in. With his world

already shattered, and finding himself abandoned by his

wife for another man, Yousif begins to question everything –

including his own values and identity.

‘An impressive, if bleak, fictional exploration of the roots of Radical Islam and the difficulties challenging it’

– Independent

‘Achaari is a poet and this is definitely visible in his fiction writing’

– Khaleej Times

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Laila Aljohani is an award-winning Saudi Arabian writer

of short stories and novels. She was born in the northern

city of Tubuq, Saudi Arabia.

‘[These]… artfully orchestrated ambivalences and moral conundrums power the book and highlight Aljohani’s skill at manipulating emotional responses.’

– National

Days of IgnoranceLaila AljohaniOriginal Title: JahiliyyaTranslation: Nancy Roberts

• Award-winning author in her English language debut.

A Romeo and Juliet for our times.

Medina, Saudi Arabia. A young man, Malek, has been

brutally attacked for being of the ‘wrong’ race.

Malek’s lover, Leen, waits by his bedside and reflects on their

relationship and her life as an unmarried, childless woman.

All around her are voices of judgment and concern; in the

twenty-first century it is still unforgivable, and dangerous,

for a Saudi woman to enter into a relationship with a black

man. In the distance US planes hover over Iraq, primed to

embark on yet another senseless conflict.

Malek’s attacker was Leen’s brother.

Flinging wide a window onto the second holiest Islamic

city – a city in which people observe daily prayers and preach

equality and justice – Days of Ignorance is a novel about

honour, hypocrisy, war and fear. And, glimmering beyond,

beneath and behind it all, love.

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Radwa Ashour was an Egyptian writer and scholar. A long-time professor of English literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo, she held a PhD from the University of Massachusetts. Ashour passed away in late November 2014. She is survived by her husband, Mourid Barghouti, and son, Tamim.

‘An important writer whose exemplary work we need more of in English.’

– Independent

Blue LorriesRadwa AshourOriginal Title: FaraqTranslation: Barbara Romaine

• One of the most important Egyptian writers of her generation.

• Blue Lorries is a clear and striking voice through three generations of political struggle in Egypt.

One woman’s life. Three generations of defiance. A tale of Egypt then and now.

Nada is no stranger to protest. She is five years old when her French mother takes her to visit her Egyptian father, a political activist in prison. When he returns home, a changed man, their little family begins to fracture. Through her teenage years Nada is surrounded by the language of protest – ‘anarchism’, ‘Trotskyism’, ‘Communism’.

Through student sit-ins, imprisonments, passionate arguments, accidental alliances, fallen friends, joys and regrets, Nada’s story grows into the story of Egypt’s many celebrated activists.

Moving, uplifting and deeply human, Radwa Ashour’s masterpiece is the story of Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century and a paean to all those who choose a life of activism and quiet defiance.

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Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD

in English literature from Brown University and teaches

postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait

University. This is her first collection of short stories. She

lives in Kuwait and is currently writing her first novel.

The Hidden Light of ObjectsMai Al-Nakib

• Winner of the 2014 First Book Award from Edinburgh

International Book Festival.

• A stunning debut from a new author, reminiscent of the

work of Amy Tan, Alice Munro, and Jhumpa Lahiri.

‘With her compassion for an old, vanished world and her

exceptional eye for the bruised landscape of the modern

Middle East, Al- Nakib should be heralded as an exciting new

literary voice.’ – National

A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role

in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a

barometer of her country’s growing hostility towards the

West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on

his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his

wife. The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes.

But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle

East as it is really lived - adolescent love, the fragility of

marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind.

Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary

people - and the power of objects to hold extraordinary

memories.

‘Al-Nakib writes with penetrating insight and such compressed lyricism that at times her prose seems to border on poetry. It’s a densely imagined and beautifully written debut.’

– Sydney Morning Herald

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Architect and writer Suad Amiry lives in Ramallah where

she is director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural

Conservation. She received the Italian Viareggio-Versilia

Prize for Sharon and My Mother-in-Law in 2004.

Golda Slept HereSuad Amiry

• Suad Amiry is the 2014 winner of the Premio Nonino.

If buildings could tell their stories…

Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of

Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both

Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other

countries of the Middle East.

Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli

doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian

past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments

and personal tragedies; evokes the sights and smells of

Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the

tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between

official histories and private memories. Through poetry

and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost

Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between

remembering and forgetting.

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‘A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in occupied territories.’

– Observer

‘Spirited, thought-provoking and shockingly entertaining.’

– Daily Mail

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KHURAFAT RIYADAT AL-A‘MAL MICHAEL GERBER

IQTISAD AL-FUQARA’ ABHIJIT BANERJEE ESTHER DUFLO

AL‘AAB AL-‘UMR AL-MUTAQADDIM LUIS LANDERO

AL ‘ILM WA AL-ISLAM EHSAN MASOOD

AL-AZRAQ BAYNA AL-SAMAA‘ WA AL-MAA’ SUSAN ABULHAWA

AMWAJ ABDULLAH IBRAHIM

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‘Gerber’s powerful insights have given thousands of entrepreneurs new control over their businesses...’

– Success Magazine

‘Gerber loves to exhort people to develop powerful visions for their companies.’

– Fortune Magazine

Michael Gerber is the Founder and Chief Dreamer

of Michael E. Gerber Companies, a group which was

launched in 1977 with the creation of The Michael Thomas

Corporation, to provide small business owners and

entrepreneurs with the help they need to build a business

that works. Since then, he and his companies have provided

more than 70,000 small and emerging business-owner

clients and entrepreneurs with the means to radically

transform their companies and their lives.

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Khurafat Riyadat Al-A‘malMichael Gerber English Title: The e-Myth Revisited Translation: Anwar Al-Shamy

• Written by what INC magazine calls the World’s #1 Small

Business Guru

• Available for the first time in Arabic.

In this long-running business best-seller, Michael Gerber

dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business

and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in

the way of running a business. He walks you through

the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial

infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature

entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all

businesses that succeed. He then shows how to apply the

lessons of franchising to any business whether or not it is

a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked

distinction between working on your business and working

in your business. After you have read Khurafat Riyadat

Al-’Aa‘mal, you will truly be able to grow your business in

a predictable and productive way.

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‘(W)onderfully insightful and compassionate...’

– Guardian

‘A marvellously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty.’

– Amartya Sen

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University

of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Harvard

University. He is currently the Ford Foundation

International Professor of Economics at MIT. He co-founded

the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2003.

Esther Duflo is Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty

Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department

of Economics at MIT. She was recognized as one of the best

eight young economists by The Economist magazine. She co-

founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2003.

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Iqtisad Al-Fuqara’Abhijit Banerjee Esther Duflo Original Title: Poor Economics Translation: Anwar Al-Shamy

• Winner of the FT / Goldman Sachs Business Book of the

Year Award 2011.

Drawing on 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya

to Indonesia, Banerjee and Duflo have identified new

aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and

the way that aid or financial investment can affect their

lives. Their work transforms certain presumptions: that

microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning,

that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more

extreme version of the experience any of us have when our

income falls uncomfortably low.

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Luis Landero was born in Albuquerque, Spain, in 1948.

He has worked as professor of literature at the School of

Dramatic Art in Madrid and as a visiting professor at Yale

University. This debut prize-winning novel was originally

published in 1989. Since then, Landero has been hailed as

one of the best contemporary Spanish novelists, with titles

such as Knights of Fortune (1994), The Magician’s Apprentice

(1998) and The Guitar Player (2002). Portrait of an Immature

Man (2009) is his latest published novel.

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Al‘aab Al-‘Umr Al-MutaqaddimLuis Landero Original Title: Juegos de la edad tardía English Title: Games of the Late Age Translation: Saleh Almani

• Winner of the Spanish Critics’ Prize in 1989 and the

National Literature Prize in 1990.

Gregorio is a middle-aged clerk, grey and ordinary, whose

youthful aspirations for an exciting, more fulfilling life have

faded completely. One day, he meets a man named Gil over

the phone and everything begins to change.

Through his conversations with Gil, Gregorio forges another

personality for himself as Faroni, an attractive polyglot,

engineer, poet, and world traveller. When Gil announces

that he is finally coming to meet him, Gregorio becomes

desperate to preserve his own lies and embarks upon a

dangerous path. First published in Spanish in 1989, this

novel won Spain’s Critics’ Prize that same year, followed by

the National Literature Prize in 1990, making Luis Landero

one of the top names in contemporary Spanish literature.

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Al ‘Ilm Wa Al-IslamEhsan Masood English Title: Science and IslamTranslation: Ayham Al-Sabbagh

• Accompanies the major BBC televesion series.

From Musa Al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th

century Baghdad to Al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish

engineer whose achievements include the crank, the

camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Science and Islam tells

the story of one of history’s most misunderstood yet rich and

fertile periods in science: the extraordinary Islamic scientific

revolution between 700 and 1400 CE. Science writer Ehsan

Masood weaves the stories of these and other scientists

into a compelling narrative, taking the reader on a journey

through the Islamic empires of the Middle Ages, and their

contributions to science in Western Europe. Available for the

first time in Arabic.

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‘Fascinating and clearly written.’

– New Scientist Ehsan Masood is a journalist based in London. His work has

appeared mostly in Nature, New Scientist and www.SciDev.net.

He is also a columnist for www.OpenDemocracy.net and has

also contributed articles to Economist, El Pais, Guardian,

Independent, Le Monde and Prospect Magazine. His latest

books include: Dry: Life Without Water (2006) and Who

Decides: Analysing Decisionmaking on Genetically Modified

Crops in Developing Countries (2005). He is also the editor of

How Do You Know: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science

and Cultural Relations (2006).

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Al-Azraq Bayna Al-Samaa’ Wa Al-Maa’Susan AbulhawaOriginal Title: The Blue Between Sky and Water Translation: Dr. Mohammad Asfour

• A story of powerful, flawed women; of relocation,

separation and heartache.

It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine,

is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh

looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering and

strange outbursts, while her brother Mamdouh tends to the

village bees.

When Israeli forces gather outside the town’s borders,

nobody suspects the terror that is about to descend. Soon

the village is burning and, amidst smoke and ash, the family

must take the long road to Gaza, in a walk that will test them

to their limits.

Sixty years later, Mamdouh’s granddaughter Nur is living in

America. She falls in love with a married man and follows

him to Gaza. There she meets Alwan and it is through

her that Nur will at last discover the ties of kinship that

transcend distance – and even death.

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‘She is a fine observer of female kinship ... A powerful read.’ – Financial Times

‘Gripping and deeply moving...’

– Margie Orford, Independent on Sunday

Susan Abulhawa is a human rights activist, a biologist, and

political commentator. She is the founder of Playgrounds for

Palestine, a children’s organisation dedicated to upholding

The Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her debut novel,

Mornings in Jenin, was an international bestseller, translated

into 26 languages.

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AmwajAbdullah IbrahimEnglish Title: Waves Translation: TBD

• In this stunning memoir, Ibrahim contrasts the tolerant,

multicultural Iraq of his childhood with the country today

that is shattered by wars.

Amwaj tells the story of a young Ibrahim who was born

and raised in Kirkuk to a family of Sunni Arab farmers and

landowners. Kirkuk of his childhood was an idyllic place,

where Arabs and Kurds lived together, and Christians and

Muslims were neighbours in every sense of the word. But

things changed with the start of the Iran-Iraq War when

Ibrahim was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army to

fight for Iraq.

After the war, he left the country to escape the political

tensions, ending up teaching Arabic Literature in Libya,

then in Qatar. Passing through these countries accentuated

Ibrahim’s memories of home, as did his sadness at each

successive wave of violence that engulfed it and his

memories.

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Author Abdullah Ibrahim is a well-known academic and

literary critic. He’s published more than thirty books of

literary criticism in Arabic. In terms of his English language

input, he has contributed to the Cambridge Encyclopedia of

Arabic Literature.

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‘[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally gripping story yet…’

– New York Times

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Wa Raddadat Al-Jibal Al-SadaKhaled HosseiniOriginal Title: And the Mountains EchoedTranslation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• From the New York Times bestselling author of

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

• An Amazon best book of the month.

Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love,

how we take care of one another, and how the choices we

make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving

around not just parents and children but brothers and

sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many

ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and

sacrifice one another; and how often we are surprised by the

actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most.

Following its characters and the ramifications of their

lives and choices and loves around the globe – from Kabul

to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos –

the story expands gradually outward, becoming more

emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan,

and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel,

The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published

in thirty-eight countries. He has been appointed a Goodwill

Ambassador to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee

Agency. He lives in Northern California.

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Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright,

essayist, academic, and human rights activist. He has been

a professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke

University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.

‘From the first page, this slim novel invokes the menace of the former in order to underscore and explore the vulnerability of the latter.’

– New York Times

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ThiqahAriel DorfmanOriginal Title: KonfidenzTranslation: Saleh Almani

• Author’s first novel to be translated into Arabic.

• Translated by Saleh Almani, one of the best translators of

Spanish-language literature in the Arab world.

A passionate treatise on love, repression, and aesthetics.

Tense and tightly woven, Thiqah is a dramatic novel set in

Paris during World War II about a woman whose lover is

accused of working for the Resistance.

The novel follows nine hours of phone conversations

between a woman and a mysterious stranger who seems

to know everything about her and the reasons she fled her

homeland. As the dialogue progresses, the man tells her

many disturbing things about her and her lover (who may

be in great danger), the political situations in which they are

enmeshed, and his fantasies about her.

Powerful and menacing, Thiqah draws the reader into a post-

modern mystery where nothing – including the text itself –

is what it seems.

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Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer based in

London. Her short stories have been included anthologies

published by Granta and International PEN. They have also

been nominated for the International PEN David TK Wong

Award and the Pushcart Prize. This is her first novel.

Ghaza Tahta Al-JildSelma DabbaghOriginal Title: Out of ItTranslation: Kholoud Amr

• Nominated as a Guardian Book of the Year in 2011.

• An unblinking look at life in Gaza, beyond the headlines.

‘The writing is both literary and accessible, fast-paced,

passionate, exuberant and heart-lurching. We’ll be hearing

much more from Selma Dabbagh’ – Guardian

Gaza is being bombed. Rashid – a young, clever Palestinian–

has been smoking grass on the roof watching it happen

when he gets the e-mail he has been desperate for: he’s won

a scholarship to London. Rashid’s sister, Iman, frustrated

by the atrocities and inaction around her, is beginning

to take an interest in an Islamic resistance group. Sabri,

their intellectual older brother, is working on a history of

Palestine from his wheelchair while their mother pickles

vegetables and feuds with the neighbours.

Ghaza Tahta Al-Jild follows the lives of Rashid and Iman

as they try to forge places for themselves in the midst of

occupation, the growing divide between Palestinian factions,

and the rise of fundamentalism. Written with extraordinary

humanity and humour, and moving between Gaza, London

and the Gulf, this book helps to redefine Palestine and its

people.

‘Takes us, observantly and deftly, into the lives and feelings of those who live in Gaza and want ordinary lives.’

– Observer Books of the Year, Guardian

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Born in a refugee camp in Jordan, Ibrahim Nasrallah

is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, painter and

photographer. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro

was the first to include participation of an Arab author and

was in support of charity work for Palestinian and Arab

children in need of medical care.

Arwah Kilimanjaro Ibrahim NasrallahEnglish Title: Souls on Kilimanjaro

• From an award-winning author, previously shortlisted for

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2009.

• A much-loved bestselling author in the Arab world.

They all came knowing what they wanted from the

mountain, few knew what the mountain wanted from them.

A group of disparate individuals, amongst whom two

Palestinian adolescents who have lost their legs in Israeli

bomb strikes, are preparing to summit Mount Kilimanjaro.

They have nothing – and everything – in common.

Hailing from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and America, the

characters test the limits of their physical and emotional

strengths to prove to themselves that they can transcend

their strife-ridden histories and accomplish the unexpected.

Nasrallah’s work is a page-turning, nail-biting tale of

adventure, as well as an ode to the resilience of the human

spirit.

GENRE: FICTION

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Sophia Al-Maria is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her

work has been exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale, the New

Museum in New York, and the Architectural Association in

London. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Five Dials,

Triple Canopy, and Bidoun.

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‘[Sophia Al-Maria] offers us an original outlook on ancient ground – what any artist hopes to achieve.’

– New York Times Sunday Book Review

Bayna Al-Ardh Wa Al-Samaa’Sophia Al-MariaOriginal Title: The Girl Who Fell to EarthTranslation: Ziad Ziady

• Award-winning filmmaker and coiner of the term

‘Gulf Futurism’.

With poignancy and humor, Al-Maria shares the struggles of

being raised by an American mother and Bedouin father.

When Sophia Al-Maria’s mother sends her away from rainy

Washington State to stay with her husband’s desert-dwelling

Bedouin family in Qatar, she intends it to be a sort of

teenage cultural boot camp.

Struggling to adapt to her nomadic lifestyle, Sophia is

haunted by the feeling that she is perpetually in exile:

hovering somewhere between two worlds. She embarks on

a complex journey that includes finding young love in the

Arabian Gulf, rebellion in Cairo, and, finally, self-discovery

in the mountains of Sinai. Bayna Al-Ardh Wa Al-Samaa’

heralds the arrival of an electric new talent and takes us on

the most personal of quests: the voyage home.

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Currently Minister Adviser of HH the Emir of Qatar,

Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari served as Qatar’s

Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, from 2008 to

2016. Fluent in French, English and Arabic, Dr. Al-Kawari

spent many years as a diplomat while serving as Qatar’s

Ambassador to Lebanon, Syria, France, and the United

States. He was Qatar’s representative to the United Nations

between 1984 and 1990. In addition to authoring a number

of books, his political and cultural essays have been

published in several Arab journals.

‘Ala Qadri Ahli Al-‘AzmDr. Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari English Title: The Global Majlis

• An analysis of the most important cultural, political and

social issues of the 21st century.

With a career in international politics and diplomacy that

spans decades, Dr. Hamad Al-Kawari offers his unique

perspective to the complex social and political issues facing

Qatar and the Arab world. A mixture of personal stories,

professional biography, and intellectual observations,

‘Ala Qadri Ahli Al-‘Azm covers themes ranging from methods

of negotiation to cultural diplomacy, education, art and

literature, and the path to freedom. In doing so, Dr. Al-Kawari

offers cultural solutions to pressing political and social

dilemmas seen in both the Middle East and the world at large,

such as injustice and intolerance.

‘Ala Qadri Ahli Al-‘Azm is a must read for anyone passionate

about cross-cultural dialogue, global citizenship, and the

Middle East – as seen through the eyes of a decorated

diplomat and a statesman.

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Golda Namat HunaSuad AmiryEnglish Title: Golda Slept Here Translation: Ayman H. Haddad

• Suad Amiry is the 2014 winner of the Premio Nonino.

Palestine: the Presence of the Absent.

In this literary-historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces

the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and,

through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré

Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East.

Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli

doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian

past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments

and personal tragedies; evokes the sights and smells of

Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the

tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between

official histories and private memories. Through poetry

and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost

Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between

remembering and forgetting.

Architect and writer Suad Amiry lives in Ramallah where

she is director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural

Conservation. She received the Italian Viareggio-Versilia

Prize for Sharon and My Mother-in-Law in 2004.

‘A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in occupied territories.’

– Observer

‘Spirited, thought-provoking and shockingly entertaining.’

– Daily Mail

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Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic

Studies at the Oxford University and also teaches at the

Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is President of the European

think tank: European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels.

He is a member of the International Union of Muslim

Scholars.

Al-Islam Wa Al-HurriyaTariq RamadanEnglish Title: What I Believe Translation: Osama El Ghazoly

• Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most

influential people in the world, as well as one of the most

important innovators of the 21st century.

A thought-provoking account of modern western Muslim

life written by one of the most respected scholars of Islamic

thought today.

Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar and an

outspoken public figure. This combination has made him

a controversial figure, characterized by both sides of the

spectrum as either too liberal or too radical. In an attempt

to set the record straight, Ramadan lays out his beliefs,

speaking directly to Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike.

Ramadan deals with deeply emotional and divisive issues

surrounding perceptions of Islam and those who practice it,

particularly in Europe and the West in general. Using clear

and accessible prose, Ramadan changes the narrative of

immigration, religion, and radicalism into one about human

dignity, multiculturalism and social justice.

‘... one of today’s most important books.’

– San Francisco /Sacramento Book Review

GENRE: NON-FICTION

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ISBN: 978-9992194577

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9927118074

PRICE: £ 6.99

PUB DATE: 23/04/2015

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Jamal Naji is a Jordanian short story writer and novelist

of Palestinian descent, who was shortlisted for the

International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2010. He

was awarded the Prize of the Jordanian State 2014 for his

narrative writing. Naji works as head of the Intelligentsia

Centre for Research and Survey in Amman, Jordan.

Mawsim Al-HouriyatJamal NajiEnglish Title: Season of Martyrdom

• A brand new title by a leading Arab author.

• Captures the post-Arab Spring atmosphere across the

Middle East.

An unflinching exploration of life in a region rocked by the

radicalisation of Muslim youth.

Amidst the violence rippling across the Middle East, a

wealthy businessman is visited by an oracle and is given

news that shakes the very foundations of his existence.

Meanwhile, a 20-year-old young man is fighting with the

Islamic faction against the Syrian regime. But torn apart by

feelings of shame and betrayal, he sets himself on a course

headed towards revenge and self-destruction. So begins

a journey that takes readers across a region overtaken by

sectarian and religious strife, as two men – at different

stages of their lives – embark on their ill-begotten, unholy

missions.

With nuance and precision, Naji captures the characters and

landscape of a post-Arab Spring Middle East, taking readers

from Jordan to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and even India.

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Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor and has

published a number of novels, biographies and volumes

of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter was shortlisted for

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. Having

studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College of

Medicine, he now lives in Doha.

‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers.’

– Daily News

Taqs Amir Tag ElsirEnglish Title: Telepathy

• From an author shortlisted for the International Prize for

Arabic Fiction.

• A bestselling author in the Middle East.

A psychological thriller blurring the line between literary

fantasy and real-life tragedy.

A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most

idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in

an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never

met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely

death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man

from a similar fate?

Elsir takes his readers on a chilling journey through the

unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own

creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides of Khartoum –

the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty stricken

underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane

asylums and of the relationship between imagination and

reality.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9927101885

PRICE: £ 5.99

PUB DATE: 15/01/2015

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KITAB AL-ASHYAA’ HASHEM SHAFIQ

MUSHATON YUNADOON IKHWATAHOM GHASSAN ZAQTAN

ISTAJIB IN DA‘ATKA AL-JIBAL MOHAMED GHOZZI

AL-SHIRAA‘ AL-MOQADDAS ABDULAZIZ AL-MAHMOUD

KAL MAA’ LIL-SHUKULATA LAURA ESQUIVEL

ALF SHAMSIN SATI‘A KHALED HOSSEINI

STEVE JOBS KAREN BLUMENTHAL

‘ADDAA’ AL-TA’IRA AL-WARAQIYYA KHALED HOSSEINI

BAYNAMA YANAM AL-‘AALAM SUSAN ABULHAWA

AL-QURSAN ABDULAZIZ AL MAHMOUD

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GENRE: POETRY

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 978-9927118432

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 22/10/2015

Istajib in Da‘atka Al-JibalMohamed GhozziEnglish Title: Obey the Mountains

• A collection of poems with themes of loss and nostalgia,

authored by one of the most highly-regarded poetic voices

from Tunisia.

Mushaton Yunadoon IkhwatahomGhassan ZaqtanEnglish Title: Passersby

• Composed by the winner of the prestigious Griffin Prize

for Poetry 2013, the poems in this collection revolve

around the competing forces of life and death.

GENRE: POETRY

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN:978-9927118449

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 22/10/2015

Kitab Al-Ashyaa’Hashem ShafiqEnglish Title: The Book of Things

• Written by a diasporic Iraqi poet, this work deals with the

physical presence of everyday objects in our lives and the

intensity they holdGENRE: POETRY

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 978-9927118456

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 22/10/2015

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9927101700

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 11/11/2014

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Al-Shiraa‘ Al-MoqaddasAbdulaziz Al-MahmoudOriginal Title: The Holy Sail

• Author is a much celebrated Qatari writer

• In the vein of Clive Cussler, a swashbuckling tale

of adventure and high treason.

• Historical fiction covering a neglected period of time

and place in the world.

In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf.

In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist…

Portugal, 1486. Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages, and

new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is still

unchartered territory…

Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious

fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl

falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes

are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on

securing the profitable spice trade.

Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous

historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility,

while guiding us around the world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah

and Istanbul. Al-Shiraa‘ Al-Moqaddas brings to life a

neglected episode of history that impacted not only the

region but the world for centuries to come.

Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist.

He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula

newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. Abdulaziz has

previously authored The Corsair.

‘The author has brilliantly established a dramatic structure with great political awareness… an excellent historical mind.’

– Al Jazeera

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Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City. She began her

career as a screen-writer, gaining international acclaim.

The publication of this debut novel in 1990 was one of the

major literary landmarks of that decade. The film based

on the novel, with a script written by Esquivel herself, won

several prizes and was a box-office hit.

‘Utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-the-century Mexico… (an) exquisite first novel.’

– Publishers Weekly

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992195543

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 06/11/2014

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Kal Maa’ Lil-ShukulataLaura EsquivelOriginal Title: Como Agua Para Chocolate Translation: Saleh Almani

• Has sold more than 4.5 million copies around the world

and has been translated into 35 languages, available for

the first time in Arabic.

• Remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more

than a year

Earthy, magical and charming, a tale of family life in turn-

of-the-century Mexico.

A highly original novel by one of Mexico’s most important

storytellers, Kal Maa’ Lil-Shukulata’s chapters each start

with a traditional northern Mexican recipe. Cooking is

the exclusive means of expression open to the female

protagonist, who doesn’t conform to the limited role that

both society and her family have given her.

Tita is trapped in a destiny predetermined at birth: family

tradition dictates that the youngest daughter must renounce

marriage and devote herself to the care of her mother.

Tita, however, is passionately in love with Pedro, her eldest

sister’s husband.

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN:978-9992194065

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 14/03/2013

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‘Hosseini’s illuminating book [is] a worthy sequel to The Kite Runner.’ – Los Angeles Times

‘A masterful narrative… He is a storyteller of dizzying power.’

– Evening Standard

Alf Shamsin Sati‘aKhaled HosseiniOriginal Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• 75 weeks on the New York Times paperback fiction

bestseller list.

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an

unlikely friendship and an indestructible love.

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry

Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows

between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the

ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take

over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation,

brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in

unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most

daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

The sense of longing evoked in Khaled Hosseini’s novel is

compelling and universal: the passionate search for love,

family, home, acceptance, a healthy society, and a promising

future, regardless of the obstacles. This novel transcends

boundaries and illuminates the people and culture of a

region that has been reluctantly thrust into the international

spotlight.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan,

and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel,

The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published

in thirty-eight countries. He has been appointed a Goodwill

Ambassador to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee

Agency. He lives in Northern California.

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Steve JobsKaren BlumenthalOriginal Title: Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought DifferentTranslated by: Abdel Maqsud Abdel Karim Al Sayed

• The amazing story of Apple founder, Steve Jobs, spring

boarding from his famous graduation speech in 2005.

• Written by an award-winning author and critically

acclaimed writer.

‘Your time is limited. . . . have the courage to follow your

heart and intuition.’ – Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was loved, hated, admired and dismissed. He

was a living legend, the 21 year-old genius who founded

Apple in his parent’s garage. Critically-acclaimed author

Karen Blumenthal takes us to the core of this complicated

and legendary man, from his adoption to the pinnacles

of his career. Framed by Jobs’ inspirational Stanford

commencement speech and illustrated throughout with

black and white photos, this is the story of the man who

changed our world.

Karen Blumenthal is a critically acclaimed children’s non-

fiction writer and a long-time journalist for the Wall Street

Journal. She is the author of Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and

the Lawless Years of Prohibition, which received four starred

reviews, Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929,

which was a Sibert Honor Book, and Let Me Play: The Story of

Title IX, which won a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.

She lives in Dallas, Texas.

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992195277

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 20/12/2012

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‘A perceptive, well-wrought picture of an iconic figure.’

– Kirkus Reviews

‘Blumenthal crafts an insightful, balanced portrait.’

– Publishers Weekly

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992178966

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 27/09/2012

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‘The Kite Runner is a first novel of unusual generosity, honesty and compassion.’

– Guardian

‘Addaa’ Al-Ta’ira Al-WaraqiyyaKhaled HosseiniOriginal Title: The Kite Runner Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• The remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini now

officially available in Arabic.

• Was an Academy award-nominated film which grossed

over $15 million at the US Box Office.

Afghanistan in the 1970s: twelve-year-old Amir is desperate

to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend

Hassan promises to help him. What happens to Hassan that

afternoon will shatter their lives.

After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee

to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to

find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him:

redemption.

Since its publication in 2003, the original novel has sold 8

million copies worldwide.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan,

and moved to the United States in 1980. This novel was an

international bestseller, published in thirty-eight countries.

He has been appointed a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR,

the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in Northern

California.

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Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of

1967, when her family’s land was seized. She moved to the

USA as a teenager established a career in medical science.

In July 2001, Susan Abulhawa founded Playgrounds for

Palestine, a children’s organisation dedicated to upholding

The Right to Play for Palestinian children.

Baynama Yanam Al-‘AalamSusan AbulhawaOriginal Title: Mornings in JeninTranslation: Samia Shanan

• This is arguably the first commercial literary work from

a Palestinian voice.

1948: The lives of the Abulheja family are changed forever

when they are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in

Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin.

Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch,

we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who

becomes an Israeli soldier; and the other, who as a result

of sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause, becomes

his brother’s unwitting enemy. Amal’s own dramatic story

weaves its way between these strands.

This is a moving and powerful novel that will have an

enormous impact on all those who read it.

‘Abulhawa’s writing shines… Friendship, adolescence, love: ordinary events, offset against extraordinary circumstances, make the story live.’

– Independent

GENRE: FICTION

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ISBN: 978-9992142592

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PUB DATE: 15/03/2012

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Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist.

He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula

newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net.

Al-QursanAbdulaziz Al MahmoudEnglish Title: The Corsair

• Bestselling novel which took the Arabian Gulf by storm.

• A previously untold and thoroughly researched story about

a crucial era in Gulf history.

‘This is a remarkable debut novel and one that captures the

spirit of an age with delicate mastery and great skills.’

– QF Telegraph

Set in the early nineteenth century, during one of the most

important periods of history in the Arabian Gulf, this

groundbreaking and exciting novel unfolds against the

backdrop of the brutal struggle between the British Empire

and the Wahabi tribes of the Gulf for control of the area.

This story of high-seas piracy and political intrigue, of

unexpected kinship and personal betrayal, portrays the

conflicting interests and human drama of the historic events

in the Arabian Peninsula.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992178768

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 17/10/2011

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‘A fine talent in the world of novel writing... Al Qursan succeeds in taking us back to the past... and herein lies the value and importance of the novel.’

– Ibrahim Darwish

‘Engaging and entertaining.’

– Al Dostoor

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A young Iraqi writer sets

out to become a Hollywood

filmmaker and winds up a

refugee on the streets of Paris.

While his dream of making

a film about his deaf mute

father is never realised, the

extraordinary encounters he

has with Jean-Luc Godard,

Samuel Beckett and a ghost

from Père Lachaise Cemetery

transform his own story into

a captivating drama more

compelling than anything on

the big screen.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 978-9992142295

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 21/02/2011

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LANGUAGES

E-PUB ISBN: 978-9992179031

An Iraqi in ParisSamuel Shimon

Original Title: Iraqi fi Baris

Translated by: Piers Amodia,

Christina Phillips

Fifteen years after emigrating

from Baghdad to America,

Zeina returns to her war-torn

homeland as an interpreter

for the US Army and

finds herself tormented by

conflicting allegiances. Her

grandmother, the only family

member Zeina believes she

has in Iraq, disapproves of her

granddaughter’s involvement

with the occupying forces. In

Baghdad, Zeina meets two

‘brothers’ she knows nothing

of. When she falls in love with

one of them, a militant in

the Mahdi Army, she herself

begins to question her values.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 978-9992142042

PRICE: £ 9.99

PUB DATE: 18/10/2010

RIGHTS: WORLD, ENGLISH

E-PUB ISBN: 978-9992142721

The American GranddaughterInaam Kachachi

Translated by: Nariman

Youssef

It’s the early nineteenth

century and piracy in the Gulf

threatens global maritime

trade routes. Britain, eager

to reinforce its presence

in the Middle East and

protect its interests, sends

an Englishman to quash the

pirates while persuading

Egypt to join an international

alliance with Oman and Persia

to fight against the Wahabbis.

But Erhama bin Jaber, a

historical figure and one of the

most notorious pirates in the

Gulf, has his own agenda and

his own vendettas.

The CorsairAbdulaziz Al Mahmoud

Translated by: Amira Noweira

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992194720

PRICE: £ 7.99

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The first anthology of talented

new authors from Qatar to

be published internationally,

Qatari Voices showcases

twenty-one young Qatari

authors. The anthology

reflects the concerns and

aspirations of a young

generation, including the

longing for a simple past and

aspirations for the future.

Qatari VoicesEdited by: Mohanalakshmi

Rajakumar and Carol

Henderson

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992142257

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 26/04/2010

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E-PUB ISBN: 978-9992142851

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A collection of essays, Gulf

Women provides a greater

understanding of the history

of the Gulf and the Arab

world, as well as the history

of Muslim women. The

result of a project aimed at

finding sources and studying

the history of women in

the region, the articles are

presented thematically and

chronologically, starting with

ancient history, and moving

on to the medieval, early

modern and contemporary

periods.

Gulf WomenEdited by: Amira Sonbol

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992142684

PRICE: £ 17.99

PUB DATE: 01/03/2012

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E-PUB ISBN: 978-9992194843

Written with extraordinary

humanity and humour,

and moving between Gaza,

London and the Gulf,

Out of It is a tale that redefines

Palestine and its people.

It follows the lives of Rashid

and Iman as they try to forge

paths for themselves in the

midst of occupation, religious

fundamentalism and the

divisions between Palestinian

factions. It tells of family

secrets, unlikely love stories

and unburied tragedies as it

captures the frustrations and

energies of the modern Arab

world.

Out of ItSelma Dabbagh

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992195222

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 02/08/2012

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E-PUB ISBN: 978-1408824306

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Nine disparate women,

unknown to each other,

are brought together by a

tenth, a therapist, to share

their stories. Regardless of

their social standing, age, or

profession, each woman is

burdened by fear, insecurity,

and loneliness. Some face

a past they cannot leave

behind; others, a present

that is untenable, or a future

that looms ominously. They

find peace in one another

and discover that courage

overcomes all.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992194775

PRICE: £ 5.99

PUB DATE: 27/09/2012

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‘Ashar Nisaa’Marcela Serrano

Original Title: Diez Mujeres

English Title: Ten Women

Translated by: Saleh Almani

There’s no such thing as a

‘free’ market. Globalization

isn’t making the world

richer. Poor countries are

more entrepreneurial than

rich ones. This fact-packed

book about money, equality,

freedom and greed proves

that the free market isn’t

just bad for people – it’s an

inefficient way of running

economies too. Here Chang

lays out the alternatives, and

shows there’s a better way.

23 Haqiqa Yakhfunaha ‘Anka Bi-Khusus Al-Ra’smaliya Ha-Joon Chang

English Title: 23 Things

They Don’t Tell You About

Capitalism

Translated by: Mohamed Fathy

Kalfat

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992194263

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 05/12/2013

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9 August, 1945, Nagasaki:

Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one

and in love with Konrad

Weiss, the man she is about

to marry, steps out onto her

veranda, minutes before a

nuclear explosion shatters her

world and everything in it.

Al-Thelal Al-Mohtariqa is an

epic narrative of disasters

evaded and confronted,

loyalties offered and repaid,

and loves rewarded and

betrayed.

Al-Thelal Al-MohtariqaKamila Shamsie

Original Title: Burnt Shadows

Translated by: Iman Hirzallah

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992142585

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 27/09/2012

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Shelina is keeping a very

surprising secret under her

headscarf – she wants to fall

in love and find her faith.

Torn between the Buxom

Aunties, romantic comedies

and mosque Imams, she

decides to follow the arranged-

marriage route to finding Mr.

Right, Muslim-style. Shelina’s

captivating journey begins as a

search for the One, but along

the way she also discovers her

faith and herself. A memoir

with a hilarious twist from

one of Britain’s leading female

Muslim writers.

GENRE: MEMOIR

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992142486

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 27/09/2012

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Matloob ‘AreesShelina Janmohamed

Original Title: Love in a

Headscarf

Translated by: Salam Shughry

María Margarita is a young

girl from a small Chilean

village who is famous for her

strange gift of recreating the

stories of movies. When a new

film comes to town – whether

the latest Marilyn Monroe

movie or Mexican musical –

the villagers pay her to watch

the movie so that she can

tell them all about it. Tender,

magical and moving, Raweyat

Al-Aflam tells the nostalgic

tale of South American village

cinemas in their full glory.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992194010

PRICE: £ 5.99

PUB DATE: 05/01/2012

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Raweyat Al-Aflam Hernán Rivera Letelier

Original Title: La contadora

de películas

English Title:

The Movie-maker

Translated by: Saleh Almani

Captivating and intelligently

written, Asrar Sagheera is

a collection of media blogs

by popular Lebanese media

personality Rita Khoury, which

look behind the scenes of the

contemporary media scene in

Lebanon.

Not a conventional book

about the lives of celebrities,

Asrar Sagheera is a delightful

journey packed with the

gripping real-life experiences

of a woman who put aside

fame to reveal the secrets and

some of the more unusual

moments of her life.

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 978-9992178775

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 16/08/2012

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Asrar Sagheera Rita Khoury

English Title: Little Secrets

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