Arab & Middle Eastern
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As Figs in Autumn: One Year in a Forever War
$27.00 Add to cartIn his final college semester, Ben awakens to read on his computer screen of the death of his classmate and childhood friend Avi. Avi’s death is sudden and senseless, killed by a drunk driver on his w
- Author: Bastomski, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1953002242
- Language: English
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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
$19.95 Add to cartA unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. ‘Remark- Author: Shlaim, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0861548108
- Language: English
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Message in a Matchbox
$19.95 Add to cartIt all started during our family reunion in the summer of 2006, when I discovered an invaluable treasure: my oldest brother’s memories of growing up. His name is Mohsen, and he was born in Tehran, Ira
- Author: Fashandi, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1737581469
- Language: English
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The Weight of Ghosts
$17.95 Read moreThe Weight of Ghosts is a lyrical memoir by an author struggling with the death of her older son and sifting through the details of her life.
- Author: Halaby, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1636281346
- Language: English
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Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece
$29.95 Add to cartWhat choices would you make to reunite your family?
“You know, Haidi, we’re going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama.” In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope i- Author: Toulme, Fabien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1637790082
- Language: English
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Keeping the Dream Alive: My Quest for Peace and Justice
$25.99 Add to cartIn 1969, Israeli soldiers burst into Terry Ahwal’s home while she and her family were eating breakfast. More than fifty years later, she still vividly sees her father’s arms up in the air while young
- Author: Ahwal, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1955088632
- Language: English
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Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness
$17.95 Read moreThis lyrical hybrid memoir revisits a lifetime’s worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness–a moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope.
Shahd Alshamma
- Author: Alshammari, Shahd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1952177073
- Language: English
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The Final Prophet: Proof of the Prophethood of Muhammad
$14.95 Add to cartFOURTEEN CENTURIES AGO, the final revelation descended upon Muhammad (PBUH). This message, Islam, spread rapidly across Arabia to nearby lands, and across the world. Today, over a billion people belie… [more below]
- Author: Elshinawy, Mohammad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1847742076
- Language: English
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A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war.
“An essential insider account of the unravellin- Author: Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593536886
- Language: English
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A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
$19.99 Read moreThe New Yorker’s Best Book of 2023
“sorrowful, tender…beautiful.” – The New York Times Book Review
“…arresting and memorable….Masud both finds a way to comprehend her own story and establishes a- Author: Masud, Noreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890245
- Language: English
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Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
$28.00 Read moreFrom young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms – f… [more below]
- Author: Durrani, Pashtana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0806542446
- Language: English
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
$29.00 Read moreIn a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly carved out a place in the field of astrophysics, grou… [more below]
- Author: Nance, Sarafina El-Badry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593186796
- Language: English
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Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
$28.00 Read moreA searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.
“Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola M- Author: Mahfouz, Sola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593359763
- Language: English
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What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry
$28.99 Read moreEggplant seeds, a lullaby in a vanishing language, an embroidered dress. When people flee their homes, the things they save speak of beauty and suffering and the indomitable human spirit.
In an era of
- Author: Salda?a, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1506484212
- Language: English
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
$22.99 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-cen
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423643
- Language: English
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The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan
$28.99 Add to cartThe incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan–and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a da… [more below]
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0593594843
- Language: English
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Keeping the Dream Alive: My Quest for Peace and Justice
$16.99 Add to cartIn 1969, Israeli soldiers burst into Terry Ahwal’s home while she and her family were eating breakfast. More than fifty years later, she still vividly sees her father’s arms up in the air while young
- Author: Ahwal, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1955088616
- Language: English
