Hoopoe
Granada
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Swirling imagery of a bygone era illuminates this epic story of the waning days of Muslim power in 16th-century Spain through the experiences ...Read Review
A Stranger in Baghdad
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London, 2003. An Iraqi-English psychiatrist receives a visit from a mysterious man. He asks about her mother, Diane, whom he had known years ago ...Read Review
Suleiman’s Ring
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“Epic” describes this novel that begins in 1951 and carries us through wars and crises to the aftermath of the assassination of President Anwar ...Read Review
The Night Will Have Its Say
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The half century of roughly 680-730 CE was a perilous time across North Africa. Muslim armies out of Syria and Arabia crushed all ...Read Review
My First and Only Love
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The narrator, Nidal (whose name in Arabic means “struggle”), returns to Nablus in Palestine in the early 21st century, after decades of exile ...Read Review
The Lady of Zamalek
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In 1920s Cairo, ambitious young Abbas rises to power in the shadowy underworlds of prostitution and construction. After getting involved in the murder ...Read Review
The Book Smuggler
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The Book Smuggler follows a young bookseller’s travels and travails in an era when the Muslim Empire spanned three continents, and Muslims ...Read Review
The Watermelon Boys
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This extraordinary debut novel travels from 1915 to 1920 as World War I rages not only in Europe but also in the Middle East. On ...Read Review
