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In this brilliantly clever fictionalised memoir, award-winning author Jamal Mahjoub interrogates how the first generation of Northern Sudanese citizens undertook the momentous task of creating a newly independent nation. Exiled...

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...

From AFL stardom to attempting to take his own life, Majak Daw's is a football story like no other. Born in Sudan, Majak Daw fled to Egypt with his family...

*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...

Two identical girls, one a princess, the other a rebel. Who will rule the empire? Amani must make a devastating choice between revolution and family in this sequel to the...

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...

Translated by Howard Curtis Boxing offers one boy hope in cruel between-the-wars Algeria — but will it help him win the woman he loves? As a child living in a...

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...

Translated by Miled Faiza and Karen McNeillWinner of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic FictionAn emblematic story of the shipwreck of the Arab Spring.At his father's funeral, to the great...

Translated by Chris Andrews In 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first...

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 moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting memoir of a young woman starting a new life in Australia under the shadow of violence A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about...

In 1994, sixteen-year-old Emmanuel Taban walked out of war-torn Sudan with nothing, and nowhere to go. In the preceding months he was abducted and then tortured by government forces, who...

A gay Muslim boy travels the world for a second chance at love after a possibly magical heiress grants him three wishes in this YA debut that's Simon vs. the...

The crown of Dihya had been stripped from me, my face changed, my body broken. But I was not a slave and I was not a spare. I was my...

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth...

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 Ann GoldsteinA small culturally mixed community living an apartment building in the center of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbors is murdered. An investigation...

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...

The must-read exploration of the birth and death of the internet, from award-winning journalist Marie Le Conte. Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and...

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...

For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, El-Salahi continues to...

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...

Translated by Aneesa Abbas HigginsA haunting, lyrical French bestseller set in Paris and Algiers about desire, shame and violenceIn All Men Want to Know the author traces her blissful childhood...

From the bestselling author of Lullaby, the prizewinning debut novel about all our attempts to discover who we are — deep down — and what we actually want. Her obsessions...

Translated by Lara Vergnaud *Winner of the Prix Eugène Dabit* Lullaby meets Little Fires Everywhere, this intense, suspenseful prize-winning novel explores the darker side of human nature — and the...

Translated by Sam Taylor Watch us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place...

A Philosophy of ViolenceTranslated from the French by Kieran Aarons.A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopherIs violent self-defense ethical? In the history...

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...

A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to AmericaI want life.For ten years, Achut Deng surrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after her family was ripped...

A coming of age tale and twisted love story, set amid the beaches, streets and mansions of Nineties Casablanca. Sarah is poor, but at least she's French, which allows her...

From the prize winning and bestselling author of Lullaby and Adele: a fascinating and witty collection of essays on the lives of women grappling with sexual politics in a deeply...

* Winner of the American Book Award* Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015* A Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction * A new edition of a masterful,...

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...

The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj,...