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

Wild Thorns offers a glimpse of social and personal relations under Israeli occupation. Featuring...

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

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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...

Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her...

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

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

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

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

The female body is a political space.

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

In The Gaza Catastrophe, Gilbert Achcar examines Gaza's ongoing devastation, tracing it to a patt...

The Arab uprisings ofthe early 2010s raised hopes for the development of more democratic structur...

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

Iranian artists have been producing some of the world's mostthought-provoking and intellectually ...

The Sultan's Sex Potions

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

A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her nam...

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

Classic Palestinian Cuisine

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After a military coup, four prisoners sit below ground awaiting their turn at the hands of their ...

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In this exhaustive political biography, Ilan Pappe traces the rise of the Husayni family of Jerus...

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

An enlightening and authoritative history, explaining both the creation and unravelling of the cu...

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

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

Arab women poets have been around since the earliest times, yet their diwans (collected poems) ha...

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

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A rich history of a classic Balkan city.