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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...

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...

Translated by Max Weiss A powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo during the early days of the civil war that followed the Arab Spring. Jumaa is a schoolteacher...

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...

A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a WarTranslated from the French by Lara VergnaudIn 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in...

Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer24 MUST-READ 2022 BOOKS IN TRANSLATION as selected by BOOK RIOTIt’s 2011 and the Arab Spring is in full bloom when the discovery of two bodies in...