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“said khatibi”

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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

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Against the Loveless World

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    by susan abulhawa ...
    Arab American Book Award Winner2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist2020 Palestine Book Awards WinnerLonglisted for Rathbones Folio Prize“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden world... ... Read more

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  • Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

    by Laila Lalami ...
    In this literary novel, four Moroccans escape their circumstances to seek a new beginning for themselves—and places they can home—in Spain."A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise." —Junot DiazHope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book ... Read more

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  • Secret Son

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    by Laila Lalami ...
    A literary novel about a young man fighting for his future in poverty-stricken Morocco.Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father—whom he'd been led to believe was dead—is very much alive. A wealthy businessman, he ... Read more

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  • My Road from Damascus

    A Memoir

    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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  • A Strangeness in My Mind

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    by Orhan Pamuk ...
    Translated by Ekin Oklap ...
    From one of our greatest, a panoramic new novel, his first since Museum of Innocence, bringing us into Istanbul's underground through the eyes of a struggling street vendor.Mevlut, an Istanbul street vendor, has spent his whole life selling a local alcoholic drink. It is the 1990s, and although there were once thousands of boza vendors walking the frozen streets of the city, Mevlut now cuts a ... Read more

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  • The Wrong End of the Telescope

    by Rabih Alameddine ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONBy National Book Award winner for The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) and National Book Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, ... Read more

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  • Gaddafi's Harem

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

    by Annick Cojean ...
    Translated by Marjolijn de Jager ...
    This international bestseller is a "horrifying inside look at the lives of Libyan women under the Gaddafi regime . . . Powerful and compelling" ( Booklist, starred review).Soraya was just fifteen, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide," on a visit he was making to her school the following week. This ... Read more

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  • The City Always Wins

    by Omar Robert Hamilton ...
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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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  • Brother Alive

    by Zain Khalid ...
    From the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and Bard Fiction Prize, National Book Award “5 Under 35” Honoree, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam fatherIn 1990, three boys are ... Read more

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