Narratives

Aisha Abdel GawadPaperback, 320 pages9780593467824   It’s the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high sch...

Orhan PamukEkin Oklap (translation)Paperback, 704 pages9780571352951   An epic and playful mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder, from one o...

Benjamin LabatutAdrian Nathan West (translation)Paperback, 192 pages9781782276142   When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds stri...

Ibn al-MuqaffaMichael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 293 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479825776   Timeless fables of loya...

Uzma JalaluddinPaperback9780593336366   For fans of “You’ve Got Mail,” a young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her fami...

Sinéad O'ConnorPaperback, 304 pages9781844885428   Sinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her ...

Deborah EllisPaperback, 192 pages9781761068676   Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment in war-torn Af...

Jamil Jan KochaiPaperback, 288 pages9781526664723   Winner O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, 2023   PEN/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai breathe...

Muhammad Husain Alias al-GeylaniPaperback 9789811873379   Spiritual Journey and Encounters Through the History of Singapura, Nusantara and the Inne...

Ream ShukairyPaperback, 416 pages9780316432757   A novel about the unlikely friendship between two very different Syrian girls, the pressures and e...

Norhafsah HamidPaperback, 340 pages9789672459675   Struggling to fit in all her life, Nieza, a cardiologist, decided that it was time for her to mo...

S.K. AliPaperback, 336 pages9781534442764   In this fun and fresh sequel to Saints and Misfits, Janna hopes her brother's wedding will be the perfe...

S.K. AliPaperback, 336 pages9781481499255   There are three kinds of people in my world:   1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward...

Sonallah IbrahimHardback, 200 pages9780857429803   A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of...

Hussein BarghouthiHardback, 154 pages9780857428967   A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the...

Marmaduke PickthallPaperback9781912356058   Oriental Encounters is the best introduction to Pickthall’s work, a fictionalised account of his experi...

Khaled Hosseini Paperback 9781526604743   Amir and Hassan grow up together in Kabul. Amir in the beautiful house his father built, filled with marb...

Ahmad Ibn Fadlan James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 108 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899890   The earliest surviving instance of sustai...

Abu Zayd al-SirafiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 124 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479830596   The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed...

Muhammad al-MuwaylihiRoger Allen (translation)Paperback, 524 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840915   Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cair...

Hanna DiyabElias Muhanna (translation)Paperback, 468 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820016   The adventures of the man who created Aladdin   The B...

Yusuf al-Shirbini and Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 380 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479829668   Satires of...

Yusuf al-ShirbiniHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 320 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840212   Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt   W...

Kamila ShamsiePaperback, 336 pages9781526647719   Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the un...