Middle East

Love poems by Writers of Arab Heritage We Call to the Eye and to the Night is an amalgam of eminent poets — Hayan Charara, Leila Chatti, Nathalie Handal, Fady...

The brutal war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip in response to the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023, or Operations Swords of Iron to give it its official...

A powerful collection of testimonies from Palestinians facing genocide and displacement in Gaza with hope and resistance. Displaced in Gaza aims to raise global awareness of how violent displacement has impacted...

The rich and deeply personal debut memoir of motherhood via surrogacy, by award-winning Palestinian-American poet and novelist Hala Alyan. At first, Hala's baby is the size of a poppyseed. Then...

Notes from the Genocide in Gaza A powerful eyewitness account of the genocide in Gaza by an extraordinary young writer and general physician Five days before 7 October 2023 a young...

From the inimitable Rabih Alameddine - National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - comes a tragicomic saga set in Lebanon, a modern story of family, memory,...

A moving account of life in Palestine in the wake of the events of October 7th. It was a sleepless night full of tears and fear . . . I...

Nestled among the southern streets and river walls of Cork City is the award-winning Café Izz, run by beloved couple Izz and Eman Alkarajeh. Serving top-quality Palestinian food, including the...

‘This powerful work cements Asgari as a vital voice in Australian literature’―Books + Publishing ‘Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction.’―The Conversation ‘You...

A history of Iran's political underdevelopment, of how and why social movements emerged, and of how they blossomed into revolutions that ultimately betrayed their ideals. Triumph and Despair tells the dramatic...

The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective This vital volume places the Gaza catastrophe in its wider geopolitical and historical context The destruction that has been rained on Gaza has been seen...

Gaza in My Phone presents the powerful art of Lebanese cartoonist Mazen Kerbaj, drawn in response to social media images of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. Gaza is the first genocide...

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...

A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in...

‘Moko and Omar are as generous and gifted as writers as they are as cooks, and this is a book to both cook from and read through.’ – Dorie Greenspan...

A brand new collection of inspiring recipes from Sunday Times bestselling author Sabrina Ghayour - each designed to be as easy as possible. Every recipe in Persiana Easy make irresistible Middle Eastern flavours simple....

The Case for a Single Democratic State in Palestine Ali Abunimah provides an effective strategy for advancing the struggle for a just, single-state solution in Palestine. In this essential work,...

16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets...

A family memoir that retraces the love story between the author's Palestinian father and Italian mother. WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE 2023-24 'Vivid, compassionate, captivating' Elif Shafak'A...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when,Your glance in secrecy met mine,And in my face your love was likeA visibly reflected sign.May I remember...

A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side “It is my honor to introduce these pages—so gravelly, so straggly, so hopeful,...

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegül Savaş’s acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity.A researcher abroad in Rome...

Through the voices of those who live it, Beyond the Wall unveils the everyday realities of occupation, resilience, and the fight for dignity in Palestine. Their voices come from Bethlehem and...

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...

This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family....

In Babylon, Albion, Dalia Al-Dujaili explores the concept of belonging through nature, blending Arab and Islamic mythology with English pastoral traditions. She reflects on the land's heritage, from oak trees...

The epic conclusion to Stephen Aryan's The Nightingale and the Falcon trilogy, a bloody and magical reimagining of the Mongolian Empire's invasion of Persia. Great for fans of She Who Became the Sun by...

The Arab–Israeli War of Narratives The Arab-Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle Eastern battlefields. There is also a war of narratives revolving around the two defining...

Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture ‘A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land.’Shamsaddin al-Dimashqi, geographer (1256–1327) This was Gaza....

One State for Israel and Palestine A timely collection on the most pressing global issue of our time. After Zionism brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the most...

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...

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 Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progress The Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm...

Translated by Ruth Padel Diaries 'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland...

And The Politics Of Appeal Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is a microcosm...

An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family ‘What is the task but to find my way back to the unfragmentation of the world as we knew it; to collect the uncollected,...

'A compelling call for identity and justice.' ANTHONY LEWISA groundbreaking account of the history of Palestine by one of the world's most eloquent scholars of the Middle East, featuring a...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic...

From International Booker Prize finalist Shokoofeh Azar, a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a passionate love affair. Spanning fifty years in the history...

TRANSLATED BY ANJALI SINGH Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.The brilliant graphic memoir...

The Ashfire King continues the tale of myth and magic that began with The Stardust Thief, Chelsea Abdullah's unmissable debut. Neither here nor there, but long ago... After fleeing a patricidal prince,...

A stunning debut novel about first love and finding your place in the world while caught between two cultures. For fans of Ayisha Malik, Candice Carty-Williams and Beth O'Leary. Soraya...

A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributions by leading Arab queer writers, thinkers and activists, The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kind survey...

A young Muslim scholar living in Los Angeles, stuck in the mire of a flatlining academic career, decides to give up and marry rich, committing herself to 100 dates in...

The Voices of Gaza's Youth A moving, immersive, and humanising essay collection charting the daily lives, struggles, and dreams of young people in Gaza. 'This book is a jailbreak and...

Translated by Ruth Martin A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family's flight from and return to Iran.1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order...

A Diary of Resilience The Eyes of Gaza offers an intimate glimpse through the eyes of 22-year-old Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad, capturing the experience of living through the first 45 days...

A Collection By the People; Unveiling Their Stories and Emotions From the Year That Has Been As the year 2023 came to an end, and wistfulness filled the air with...

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...

Translated by Max Weiss Either we die here, or we escape together. A deeply moving story of courage in the face of unimaginable adversity. In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed...