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Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as...

Translated by Sinan Antoon Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, this critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel. What if...

Background, Details, and Analysis A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit Ghassan Kanafani’s pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents a...

The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most...

Translated by Barbara Romaine A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted. Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are...

In 1966, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, then twenty-two, left his country to return to university in Cairo. A year later came the Six Day War and Barghouti, like many...

'I write scenes from life that the eye cannot see, as if I was trying to paint air or spirit.'Written from the perspective of an Iraqi soldier this is a...

Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this is an electrifying new novel from contemporary Syria on life in a climate of fear In Damascus,...

Translated by Marilyn Booth. An astoundingly powerful novella weaving together a series of devastatingly honest confessions, from a prize-winning Lebanese author. In an unnamed country torn apart by war, six...

Translated by Jonathan Wright WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION A prize-winning horror novel from war-torn Iraq From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects...

A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last...

Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren The follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The President's Gardens On the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for...

One of Lit Hub's most Anticipated Poetry Books ! Like Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Vallejo, Gazan poet Nasser Rabah embodies the magnificent possibilities of the human spirit and imagination under extreme...

Traditional Stories in Arabic and English (Free Bilingual Online Audio) (Stories for Language Learners) Learn about Arabic culture while improving your language skills! This fascinating book presents 28 traditional Arabic...

Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies The story of a man undone by a culture that in part created him, Season of Migration to the North, is a powerful and evocative examination...

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...

Translated by Karen McNeill, Miled Faiza "A kaleidoscopic portrait of Tunisian history."--The New York Times Two prominent families, an illicit love affair, and a chorus of voices with multiple perspectives...

Translated by Carla Calargé, Alexandra Gueydan-Turek Barrack Zailaa Rima’s celebrated graphic novel trilogy, gathered together and available in English for the first time. Beirut is an intimate and poetic look...

Translated by Peter Theroux Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it.A...

Translated by Marilyn Booth An extraordinary novel from a 'remarkable' Booker Prize-winning author who has 'constructed her own novelistic form' (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani...

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a...

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

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 Max Weiss A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death. Just before the outbreak of the...

An Anthology Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows. Spanning more than 5000 years, from the...

The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize. In their small, mountainside village, Ghazaala and Asiya love each other like sisters, until tragedy strikes, and...

Selected Poems A collection showcasing the latest poems of the Kurdish-Syrian maestro of Arabic style. Salim Barakat, the captivating Kurdish-Syrian poet and novelist known for his mastery of Arabic style,...

An unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticism Furat, a Syrian in his early 20s, visits Sibki Park in Damascus, one of the city’s most popular cruising areas. There he...

In this new novel by Syria’s most prominent writer of the National Book Award Finalist Planet of Clay, a wounded nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian Army remembers his life lived...

Life-changing wisdom from the popular Persian sage and poet “What a shame to finally reach the open sea but settle for a modest jug of water!" This is a collection...

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...

Translated by Luke Leafgren A master of contemporary Arabic fiction returns to English translation with a cunningly layered dark comedy about the powers and limits of creativity in a war...