A woman disappears without trace. Nobody, including the police commissioner investigating the case, can understand how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all, in the Kingdom of Oil where His Majesty reigns […]
Language and Literature
Zeina
Distinguished literary critic Bodour is trapped in a loveless marriage and carries with her a dark secret. She fell in love in her youth and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, whom she abandoned on the streets […]
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Nawal El Saadawi
A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At […]
Elsewhere, Home
Leila Aboulela
‘A lovely collection of short stories about love, loneliness and spirituality’ Nadiya Hussain, Good Housekeeping Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2018 Longlisted for the People’s Book Prize 2018 From one of our finest contemporary […]
Pay No Heed to the Rockets
Marcello Di Cintio
Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is smuggled from […]
Classical Poems by Arab Women
Abdullah al-Udhari
Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems) were not given the same consideration as their male counterparts’. Spanning 7,000 years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, Classical Poems […]