Africa

Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of...

The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's...

Passionate, powerful and thought-provoking, in The Hidden Face of Eve, leading feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi provides a shocking account of the oppression of women in the Arab world. Inspired...

Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the...

The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words Volume one of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist. In A Daughter of Isis,...

60 Irresistible, Plant-Based Recipes from North Africa, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula and Beyond Your Favorite Dishes from the Middle East Made Deliciously Vegan Unlock a whole new realm of...

*Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction* *Longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize 2020*'Vital, brutal and tender, The Palace of the Angels is written...

Summer, 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo, and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the city's Coptic community. As Makana,...

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid. Seizing upon...

Cairo, 1912. Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of...

Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. ‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’ Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years...

Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain Achieve happiness through compassion and generosity towards yourself – and towards others. To fix a machine, first you need to find out what’s...

How do you find yourself without losing your family? A memoir about growing up, breaking the rules and negotiating culture, from a new Australian voice. A hilarious, heartwarming memoir of...

Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelong. At each new place, challenges test and break Akita, her four siblings and...

And other essaysFunny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the 21st...

A brilliantly original debut graphic novel that imagines a fantastical Cairo where wishes really do come true. Deena Mohamed brings to life a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs...

Translated by S. R. FellowesFrom the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building.General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.Under...

A haunting, intimate account of the women and men who built a feminist revolution in the middle of the Arab Spring.In 2012, the joyful hopes of the democratic Egyptian Revolution...

From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Ekkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level...

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of...

The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the...

Trapped in an arranged marriage to a man she does not love, Nehal dreams of attending the Weaving Academy. There, she can take control of her powers, bending any water...

A father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him An incredible true tale of overcoming injustice and ode to the fierce love within one family, The Shape of Dust...

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our WorldTechnology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT? THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER. With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with...

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house...

THE BUNKER IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM ALL SAFE.In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to heal. Wolfe...

At ten years old, the Heir of Jasad flees a massacre that takes her entire family. At fifteen, she buries her first body. At twenty, the clock is ticking on...