Arab List

  • The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion

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    An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor.

    On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel,

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    • Series: Arab List
    • Author: Musallam, Akram
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 132
    • Publish Date: November 22 2021
    • ISBN10: 0857428934
    • Language: English
  • Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir

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    A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home.

    Palestinian writer Hussein Barghouthi was in his late forties when he was dia

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    • Series: Arab List
    • Author: Barghouthi, Hussein
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 154
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 0857428969
    • Language: English
  • Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014-2020

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    A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time.

    Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of

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    • Series: Arab List
    • Author: Zaqtan, Ghassan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1803092386
    • Language: English
  • This Thing Called Love

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    A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, the friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death.

    Just before the outbreak of the July 2006 war in Lebanon, a middle

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    • Series: Arab List
    • Author: Sobh, Alawiya
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 412
    • Publish Date: October 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 1803090782
    • Language: English
  • Postcards from the Underworld: Poems

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    A chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it.

    To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and

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    • Series: Arab List
    • Author: Antoon, Sinan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1803092505
    • Language: English
  • The Blue Light

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    The Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language.

    Hussein Bargouthi tells his story with Bari, a Turkish American Sufi, during Bar

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    • Series: Arab List
    • Author: Barghouthi, Hussein
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: March 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 1803090839
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Sleep

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    Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature.

    What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states–metaphorically called death’s shadow or considered

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    • Series: Arab List
    • Author: El Wardany, Haytham
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: November 14 2021
    • ISBN10: 0857429531
    • Language: English
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