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Dust Walkers, The Journey to Somalia

by Abdullahi Aden, Karieson ...

This story begins in Isiolo, where four boys wake before dawn with one thought in their hearts: there has to be more than this.Somalia isn't just a place on the map for them. It's a dream. A chance to change their lives. A hope they carry with every step.The journey won't be easy. The road is long, and the weight of politics, old beliefs, and unseen spirits follows close behind. But together, with ... Read more

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This story begins in Isiolo, where four boys wake before dawn with one thought in their hearts: there has to be more than this.Somalia isn't just a place on the map for them. It's a dream. A chance to change their lives. A hope they carry with every step.The journey won't be easy. The road is long, and the weight of politics, old beliefs, and unseen spirits follows close behind. But together, with
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Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth

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What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El ... Read more

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What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE*Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger**Mama, I ... Read more

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***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE*Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger**Mama, I
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Egyptian Tales: The Phantom of the Nile

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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps____________________Menes is training as a scribe in the local temple, and to earn extra money to help his poor family, he agrees to assist rich old Maiarch. Menes must write a prayer to rid Maiarch of an old family ghost. But what if the ghost is actually ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps____________________Menes is training as a scribe in the local temple, and to earn extra money to help his poor family, he agrees to assist rich old Maiarch. Menes must write a prayer to rid Maiarch of an old family ghost. But what if the ghost is actually
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Egyptian Tales: The Gold in the Grave

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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps____________________Tutankhamen has been buried in his rocky tomb. But there is a plot to rob the grave of its vast wealth as soon as possible after the funeral. A motley gang of villains have all the skills they need to undertake the crime - the key member ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps____________________Tutankhamen has been buried in his rocky tomb. But there is a plot to rob the grave of its vast wealth as soon as possible after the funeral. A motley gang of villains have all the skills they need to undertake the crime - the key member
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Egyptian Tales: The Magic and the Mummy

by Terry Deary ...

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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps____________________This is a tale of Neria, who works in the House of Death helping her father to make mummies. Neria enjoys her work, but when the pharaoh dies, everyone is so busy that Neria is given the responsibility of mummifying the pharaoh's cat, to ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps____________________This is a tale of Neria, who works in the House of Death helping her father to make mummies. Neria enjoys her work, but when the pharaoh dies, everyone is so busy that Neria is given the responsibility of mummifying the pharaoh's cat, to
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The Wild Fox of Yemen

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by Threa Almontaser ...

**Longlisted for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette Mullen**By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser’s incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and people of Yemen, a ... Read more

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**Longlisted for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette Mullen**By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser’s incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and people of Yemen, a
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Stories from a Future State

by Jahangir Mahmoudveysi, Jîl Şwanî, Yildiz Cakar, Qadir Agid, Selahattin Demirtas, Omer Dilsoz, Muharrem Erbey, Nariman Evdike, Ava Homa, Sema Kaygusuz, Hüseyin Karabey, Karzan Kardozi, Meral Simsek ...

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Winner of a PEN Translates Award 2021Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to contemporary Kurdish writers: Might the Kurds one day have a country to call their own? With 13 stories all set in the year 2046 – exactly a century after the first glimmer of Kurdish independence, the short-lived Republic of Mahabad – this book offers a space for new expressions and new possibilities in the ongoing struggle ... Read more

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Winner of a PEN Translates Award 2021Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to contemporary Kurdish writers: Might the Kurds one day have a country to call their own? With 13 stories all set in the year 2046 – exactly a century after the first glimmer of Kurdish independence, the short-lived Republic of Mahabad – this book offers a space for new expressions and new possibilities in the ongoing struggle
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The Three Princes of Serendip: New Tellings of Old Tales for Everyone

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by Rodaan Al Galidi ...

This feast of Middle Eastern folklore from an award-winning Iraqi storyteller is paired with vibrant cut-paper art.The twenty fables and folktales in this illustrated storybook have taken a long journey. Many have roots that stretch across Europe, Asia, and Africa, but when award-winning writer and gatherer of tales Rodaan Al Galidi learned them in his homeland of Iraq, it was as Arabic folktales ... Read more

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This feast of Middle Eastern folklore from an award-winning Iraqi storyteller is paired with vibrant cut-paper art.The twenty fables and folktales in this illustrated storybook have taken a long journey. Many have roots that stretch across Europe, Asia, and Africa, but when award-winning writer and gatherer of tales Rodaan Al Galidi learned them in his homeland of Iraq, it was as Arabic folktales
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Selected Stories of Masnavi

by Zeynep Üstün, Havva Aslan ...

A man whose hair started to grey went to a good barber and said:-Young man, I got married to a young woman, can you please pick the grey hairs so that I can seem younger?Then the barber did a radical hair cut and put the hair he had cut in front of the man. He said:-My dear fellow, I have something else to do now, can you please set apart the grey ones? ... Read more

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A man whose hair started to grey went to a good barber and said:-Young man, I got married to a young woman, can you please pick the grey hairs so that I can seem younger?Then the barber did a radical hair cut and put the hair he had cut in front of the man. He said:-My dear fellow, I have something else to do now, can you please set apart the grey ones?
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The Iraqi Nights

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Translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid ...

A stunning new collection by one of Iraq’s brightest poetic voicesThe Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection, seemingly as ... Read more

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A stunning new collection by one of Iraq’s brightest poetic voicesThe Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection, seemingly as
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Echo Gods and Silent Mountains

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A poetic journal looks at life in a war–torn countryAfter two years spent in the Kurdish North of Iraq, Patrick Woodcock has returned with his eighth collection of poetry, Echo Gods and Silent Mountains.Resisting both summary gestures and grief tourism, these poems form a sustained poetic journal of both Woodcock’s own experiences and those of the Iraqis who befriended him, as it paints a picture ... Read more

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A poetic journal looks at life in a war–torn countryAfter two years spent in the Kurdish North of Iraq, Patrick Woodcock has returned with his eighth collection of poetry, Echo Gods and Silent Mountains.Resisting both summary gestures and grief tourism, these poems form a sustained poetic journal of both Woodcock’s own experiences and those of the Iraqis who befriended him, as it paints a picture
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