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A furious and beautiful book from an internationally bestselling author of formidable standing — on sex and power, persecution and resistance Winner of the Palestine Book Award Nahr has been...

'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 from the Arabic by Luke LeafgrenThe follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The President's GardensOn the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for Baghdad with...

Translated by Jonathan WrightWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONA prize-winning horror novel from war-torn IraqFrom the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts...

Translated by Donal McLaughlinPart Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author’s experiences as a political prisoner and years...

The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons...

Translated by Martin ChalmersGrowing up in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of...