'A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributi...

'A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land.' Geographer S...

This Queer Arab Family celebrates the family we inherit and the friends we choose as family. Elia...

This Arab is queer, proud, profound, curious, content, angry - a force for change. This Arab cann...

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings about a new Cold War proliferated. In fact...

Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (...

Wild and strange stories have been told about the female body since antiquity. Ranging from the e...

A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance moveme...

The murder of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022 by Iran's morality police sent shockwaves througho...

A landmark anthology of poetry and prose covering 1,500 years of Arabic literature.

Celebrated master calligrapher Hassan Massoudy carries the desert within him. Through majestic, s...

Egyptian cities and villages abound with an enormous wealth of khatt, or calligraphic script, ran...

In the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean c...

The setting is 1890s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, theyre ta...

Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Part urban explorer, part psychogeographer, ramb...

Mohand-Said Ait-Taleb is an enigma. Living in France but ravaged by memories of the war in Algeri...

Whoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons. In this strik...

Cyprus' capital Nicosia has been split by a militarised border for decades. In this collection, w...

The incredible true story of one of history's forgotten female aviation pioneers, set against the...

For centuries, Palestinian women wrote the stories of their lives and land with a needle and thre...

Part of the Saqi Essentials series. A refutation of the cultural reductionism of Islam.

Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University. Her relationship with Kuwait is complicated;...

Andrée Maalouf and Karim Haidar (head chef of Comptoir Libanais) share and reinvigorate the rich ...

Nobody knows how much I owe that man’, Primo Levi said of the bricklayer who saved his life at Au...

The female body is a political space.

Inspired by love poems from the Arab and Muslim world, Hassan Massoudys elegant, swirling composi...

The poet is the prince of words, the calligrapher the choreographer. Inspired by ancient classica...

Lebanese recipes that follow the typical Beiruti day, from breakfast through to aperitifs, festiv...

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The cuisine of Gaza is a vibrant reflection of its rich heritage, blending bold flavours, fresh i...

Conflict does more than destroy physical spaces. It extinguishes lives, erases histories and disr...

In A Passage to Europe, Rahul Markovits traces Ahmad Khan’s journey from Gujarat to Paris during ...

A gripping reassessment of the Enlightenment, exploring how leading thinkers who championed liber...

From ancient myths to modern culture, The Shrinking Goddess explores how stories about women's bo...

Spanning the Arab world, India and the United States, this family saga tells of the heart-stoppin...

A century of Palestinian poetry - voices of resistance, love, and longing. This bilingual antholo...

This first humour book from the popular blogger on Middle Eastern culture and politics brings tog...

Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. These days, she strives for a quiet life, gr...

Syria''s descent into chaos since 2011 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, while more tha...

Moving and inspiring, Syria Speaks is testament to the courage, creativity and imagination of the...

Intimate stories of longing and exile by one of our finest contemporary writers.A lonely housewif...

Hear us Now brings together the works of over twenty women writers of Muslim heritage, from estab...

In this sequel to his landmark exploration of the Arab uprisings, The People Want, Gilbert Achcar...

In this provocative book Joumana Haddad uses the format of the political pamphlet to describe the...

A rich history of a classic Balkan city.

Offers readers a new perspective on one of the world's most influential texts, already a bestsell...

This pioneering work traces the role of the Arab intelligentsia in increasing Arab awareness of E...