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The Arsonists' City by Hala AlyanThe scattered members of a Middle-Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch’s decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family’s past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States.
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The wrong end of the telescope by Rabih AlameddineA novel from the National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman is about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.
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Amreekiya : a novel
by Lena Mahmoud
After her mother is killed and her father disappears, Isra Shadi, whose parents were Palestinian and white, lives with her aunt and uncle, but when she is encouraged to leave and marry, she chooses a love from her past, as she is caught between two cultures and struggles for identity
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You Exist Too Much by Zaina ArafatTold in vignettes that occur in American and Middle East settings, a debut novel follows the experiences of a young Palestinian-American who is marginalized for her sexual orientation before the traumas of her past drive her toward self-destructive impulses.
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The thirty names of night : a novel by Zeyn JoukhadarFollows three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. By the author of The Map of Salt and Stars.
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The Other Americans by Laila Lalami"From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident. Told by multiple narrators--Nora herself, Jeremy (the Iraq war veteran with whom she develops an intimacy), widow Maryam, Efrain (an immigrant witness to the accident who refuses to get involved for fear of deportation), Coleman (the police investigator), and Driss (the dead man himself), The Other Americans deftly explores one family's secrets and hypocrisies even as it offers a portrait of Americans riven by race, class, and religion, living side by side, yet ignorant of the vicissitudes that each tribe, as it were, faces" -- Provided by publisher
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The Beauty of Your Face : A Novel by Sahar MustafahEnduring the harrowing minutes of a shooting attack on her school by a radicalized assailant, a school principal and daughter of Palestinian immigrants experiences flashbacks about the bigotry she faced as a child and the disappearance of an older sister.
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Against the loveless world : a novel by Susan Abulhawa"From the internationally bestselling author of the "terrifically affecting" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East."
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A Woman is No Man : A Novel by Etaf RumThree generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.
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Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel by Amad Sa'dwHadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city.
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A Map of Home : A Novel by Randa JarrarNidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), to her family's last flight to Texas.
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13 ways of looking at a fat girl
by Mona Awad
Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl. Original.
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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf : A Novel by Mohja KahfGrowing up devoutly Muslim in her 1970s Indiana community, Syrian immigrant Najla Shamy and her siblings struggle to balance the cultures of America and their family, a coming-of-age challenge that the adult Najla remembers years later when she reconnects with friends from other mixed heritages.
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The Angel of History : A Novel by Rabih AlameddineFollows the experiences of Yemeni-born poet Jacob, who revisits the events of his life from his upbringing in an Egyptian brothel, to his adolescence under the aegis of a wealthy father, to his years as a gay man in San Francisco at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
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Rifqa by Mohammed El-kurdEach day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa -- she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and relentless horror of the Nakba. El-Kurd's debut collection definitively shows that the Palestinian struggle is a revolution, until victory.
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Fugitive Atlas : Poems by Khaled MattawaIn this sweeping, impassioned account of refugee crises, military occupations and ecological degradation, a chorus of speakers find moments of profound solace in searching for the lost.
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The girl who fell to Earth : a memoir by Sophia Al-MariaIn this funny and wry coming-of-age story, an award-winning young filmmaker shares her experiences growing up in between the American and Arab cultures during which she found young love in the Arabian Gulf, rebellion in Cairo and self-discovery in the mountains of Sinai.
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Life Without a Recipe : A Memoir by Diana Abu-JaberA follow-up to The Language of Baklava continues the story of the author's struggles with cross-cultural values and how they shaped her coming of age and her culinary life, tracing her three marriages, her literary ambitions and her midlife decision to become a parent.
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Fugitive Atlas : Poems
by Khaled Mattawa
In this sweeping, impassioned account of refugee crises, military occupations and ecological degradation, a chorus of speakers find moments of profound solace in searching for the lost. Original. 5,000 first printing.
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Our Women on the Ground : Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and male--meaning we see only one side of the story. But a growing number of intrepid Arab women, whose access to and understanding of their subjects are vastly different than their Western counterparts, are working tirelessly to shape more nuanced narratives about their homelands through their work as reporters and photojournalists. Their voices have rarely been heard on the international stage--until now. In Our Women on the Ground, nineteen of these women tell us, in their own words, about what it's like to report on conflicts that are (quite literally) close to home. From sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo to the impossibility of traveling without a male relative in Yemen, their challenges are unique--as are their advantages, such as being able to speak candidly with other women or gain entry to places that an outsider would never be able to access. Their daring, shocking, and heartfelt stories, told here for the first time, shatter stereotypes about Arab women and provide an urgently needed perspective on a part of the world that is often misunderstood.
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Tethered to Stars : Poems by Fady Joudah"From Fady Joudah, an elegant collection of poems that shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and the horoscope."
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Falastin : A Cookbook by Sami TamimiPresents 120 recipes that tell the story of Palestine and its people, from refugee camp cooks to Gaza Strip home kitchens and master tahini makers, including Hassan’s Easy Eggs with Za’atar and Lemon and Pulled-Lamb Schwarma Sandwich.
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The Arab of the future : a graphic memoir : a childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) by Riad Sattouf"In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roofof his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents; his mother, a bookish French student, is as modest as hisfather is flamboyant. Venturing first to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State and then joining the family tribe in Homs, Syria, they hold fast to the vision of the paradise that always lies just around the corner. And hold they do, though food is scarce, children kill dogs for sport, and with locks banned, the Sattoufs come home one day to discover another family occupying their apartment. The ultimate outsider, Riad, with his flowing blond hair, is called the ultimate insult... Jewish. And in no time at all, his father has come up with yet another grand plan, moving from building a new people to building his own great palace. Brimming with life and dark humor, The Arab of the Future reveals the truth and texture of one eccentric family in an absurd Middle East, and also introduces a master cartoonist in a work destined to stand alongside Maus and Persepolis."
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The Home that Was Our Country : A Memoir of Syria by Alia MalekA senior staff writer at Al Jazeera America describes what life was like in her family’s home in Damascus through various political shifts and describes how the Arab Spring allowed her to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment, lost to them since 1970.
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