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  • The End of the Sahara

    by Said Khatibi ...
    Translated by Alexander Elinson ...
    On an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an unnamed Algerian city, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zaza Zaghouani, a stunning nightclub singer who left her hometown seeking a brighter future.The story is set in 1988 Algeria. It takes place in just forty days, ending as mass protests erupt in the country. In a small town on the edge of the desert, plagued by a locust ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • The Fertility of Evil

    A Novel

    by Amara Lakhous ...
    Translated by Alexander E. Elinson ...
    A criminal investigation plumbs the seedy underbelly of Oran in this heady psychological thriller spanning the history of postcolonial Algeria.Oran, July 5, 2018. Independence Day. Colonel Soltani of the Anti-Terrorism Unit reluctantly gives up his holiday after his superior officer tracks him down at his girlfriend’s home. A former National Liberation Front fighter and Algerian power broker has ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • History of Ash

    A Novel

    by Khadija Marouazi ...
    Translated by Alexander E. Elinson ...
    Series series Hoopoe Fiction
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ERBD LITERATURE PRIZE 2024A BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB)A NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOK OF 2023 (BRITTLE PAPER)An unforgettable and eviscerating novel of human frailty, brutality, and resistance as told through the first-person prison narratives of a man and a womanHistory of Ash is a fictional prison account narrated by Mouline and Leila, who have been imprisoned for their ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hot Maroc

    A Novel

    by Yassin Adnan ...
    Translated by Alexander E. Elinson ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    With an infectious blend of humor, satire, and biting social commentary, Yassin Adnan gives readers a portrait of contemporary Morocco—and the city of Marrakech—told through the eyes of the hapless Rahhal Laâouina, a.k.a. the Squirrel. Painfully shy, not that bright, and not all that popular, Rahhal somehow imagines himself a hero. With a useless degree in ancient Arabic poetry, he finds his ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya

    by Annick Cojean ...
    Translated by Marjolijn de Jager ...
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  • My Road from Damascus

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    by Jamal Saeed ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and ... Read more

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  • The Corpse Exhibition

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    by Hassan Blasim ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    **A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s Redeployment does for the American perspective“[A] wonderful collection.” —George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review**The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The ... Read more

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  • I Am a Bacha Posh

    My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan

    by Ukmina Manoori ...
    Translated by Peter E. Chianchiano Jr. ...
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  • The Stoning of Soraya M.

    A Story of Injustice in Iran

    by Freidoune Sahebjam ...
    Translated by Richard Seaver ...
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  • Against the Loveless World

    A Novel

    by susan abulhawa ...
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  • Daring to Drive

    A Saudi Woman's Awakening

    by Manal al-Sharif ...
    “A vital, inspiring book” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical ... Read more

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  • Last Chapter

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    This thought-provoking, semi-autobiographical book tells the story of Aisha, a young Moroccan woman, and her struggle to find an identity in the Morocco of the second half of the twentieth century. Charting Aisha's path through adolescence and young adulthood up to the present, her story is told through a series of flashbacks, anecdotes, and glimpses of the past, all bound up with a strong, often ... Read more

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