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NEW AND CURRENT TITLES 2016

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BACKLIST

THE BAMBOO STALK SAUD ALSANOUSI THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF OBJECTS MAI AL-NAKIB TELEPATHY AMIR TAG ELSIR BITTER ALMONDS LILAS TAHA BLACK BOOK OF ARABIA SHEIKHA HEND AL QASSEMI THE HOLY SAIL ABDULAZIZ AL-MAHMOUD

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The Bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi Original Title: Saq Al-Bamboo Translation: Jonathan Wright • Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013 • Bestseller in the Middle East • Powerful and outspoken, this is the book that took the Arab world by storm ‘Ambitious, cultivated and brave’ – Financial Times GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9789927101779 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101786 PRICE: £ 16.99 PUB DATE: 23/4/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

‘Alsanousi is a voice of conscience.’ – Independent

Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid. She meets Rashid, and with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of the Gulf War growing louder, Rashid abandons her and sends her home with their baby son José. Brought up struggling with his dual identity in the Philippines, José clings to the hope of returning to his father’s country when he turns eighteen. Will his Kuwaiti family live up to his expectations? Alsanousi crafts a captivating saga that boldly deals with issues of identity and alienation.

Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi, and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper. He lives in Kuwait. 4

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The Hidden Light of Objects Mai Al-Nakib • W inner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s 2014 First Book Award • A stunning collection of short stories reminiscent of the works of Amy Tan, Alice Munro, and Jhumpa Lahiri

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927101168

‘The old world and the new. The strife in the Gulf. East and West, Arabic and English, the poetry of the heart, the eye of the hawk; all these elements produce the lustrous pearls of Mai Al-Nakib’s short stories.’ – Hanan al-Shaykh, author of Beirut Blues

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101144 PRICE: £ 8.99 PUB DATE: 23/4/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD

‘An exciting new literary voice’ –National ‘Al-Nakib writes with penetrating insight and such compressed lyricism that at times her prose seems to border on poetry. It’s a densely imagined and beautifully written debut. – Sydney Morning Herald

A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country’s growing hostility towards the West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.

Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. This is her first collection of short stories. She lives in Kuwait and is currently writing her first novel. 5

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Telepathy Amir Tag Elsir Original Title: Taqs Translation: William Hutchins • An elegant, spine-chilling literary novella • From an author shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011 • A bestselling author in the Middle East

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927101892 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118067 PRICE: £ 8.99 PUB DATE: 18/6/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD

‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers.’ – Daily News, Egypt

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A psychological thriller blurring the line between literary fantasy and real-life tragedy A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate? Elsir takes his readers on a terrifying journey through the unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and of the dubious relationship between imagination and reality.

Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor and has published a number of novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. Having studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College of Medicine, he now lives in Doha.

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Bitter Almonds Lilas Taha • S et in Palestine and Syria, a novel about the most universal emotion of them all: love • Perfect for all those who loved Mornings in Jenin In the fight for freedom, will he lose his heart?

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Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, displaced by violence, and driven by forces beyond his control to find his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold on to: a love that propels him forward and gives him hope.

FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9789927118005 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118012 PRICE: £ 16.99 PUB DATE: 13/08/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD

‘Written with compassion and a keen awareness of matters of the heart, this is a beautiful and moving tribute to the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.’ – Ann Weisgarber, Author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, and The Promise

Nadia is maturing into womanhood in a refugee community in Damascus. She tries hard to cope with the tough realities of her world, but is confronted with a cruel load thrust upon her by a selfish brother. Can she break out of her traditional social mold to create her own destiny? Heart-breaking and moving, Bitter Almonds is about displacement and exile, family duty and honor, and the universal feelings of love and loss.

Lilas Taha is a writer at heart, an electrical engineer by training and an advocate for domestic abuse victims by choice. She was born in Kuwait to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father, and immigrated to the US following the Gulf War. 7

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Black Book of Arabia Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi • O riginal, witty, and feisty – a delightful new voice from the Gulf • A collection of short stories – some light-hearted, some heart-wrenching, some feminist – all surprising Lifting the veil on life and love beyond the palace gates These candid, moving and inspirational tales, based on true stories, will resonate with readers around the world. GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927118098 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118104 PRICE: £ 8.99 PUB DATE: 13/8/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD

Meet a princess whose best friend literally tries to steal her wedding, down to her bridal shoes and fiancé; a bride who mysteriously goes blind on her wedding day and stays blind for years; a woman whose romantic Parisian honeymoon proves too good to be true; and a jealous wife who lures her husband into falling in love with another woman. A modern day Scheherazade, Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi – a princess from the UAE – spins fantastic tales of love, betrayal and heroism from around the Arabian Gulf.

Sheikha Hend Faisal Al Qassemi is Emirati and lives in Sharjah and Doha. An accomplished artist, successful entrepreneur, and committed philanthropist, she is editorin-chief of Velvet, a high-end fashion and lifestyle magazine published in Dubai and distributed around the world. 8

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The Holy Sail Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud Original Title: Al-Shira’ Al-Moqaddas Translation: Karim Traboulsi • I n the vein of Clive Cussler, a swashbuckling tale of adventure and high treason • Historical fiction covering a neglected episode of history • Author is a much celebrated Qatari writer

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927101670 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101687 PRICE: £ 8.99

In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf. In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist… Portugal, 1486. Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages, and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is still unchartered territory…

PUB DATE: 3/12/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD

‘The author has brilliantly established a dramatic structure with great political awareness… an excellent historical mind.’ – Al Jazeera Also e bl availa bic a in Ar 0 p.5

Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on securing the profitable spice trade. Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility, while guiding us around the world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah and Istanbul.

Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. Abdulaziz has previously authored The Corsair, also a Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing title. 9

THROWING SPARKS ABDO KHAL LAND OF NO RAIN AMJAD NASSER THE ARCH AND THE BUTTERFLY MOHAMMED ACHAARI BLUE LORRIES RADWA ASHOUR JUNE RAIN JABBOUR DOUAIHY DAYS OF IGNORANCE LAILA ALJOHANI BEIRUT, BEIRUT SONALLAH IBRAHIM GOLDA SLEPT HERE SUAD AMIRY WHERE PIGEONS DON’T FLY YOUSEF AL-MOHAIMEED

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Throwing Sparks Abdo Khal Original Title: Tarmi Bi Sharar Translation: Maia Tabet and Michael K. Scott • Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010 • Author is a former fundamentalist preacher, now a hardhitting and controversial novelist • Novel is banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: HARDBACK

A shocking and satirical novel that explores the devastating effects of limitless wealth

ISBN: 9789992179093 E-PUB ISBN: 9789992194287 PRICE: £ 12.99 PUB DATE: 13/3/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD EXCEPT ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘Abdo Khal shines a light on life at the bottom of the heap, in Saudi’s often forgotten villages. His voice blends image-rich poetic classicism with contemporary patois, which makes for an unmistakably Arab mix.’ – Guardian 12

When an opulent palace is built on the Jeddah waterfront, ambitious Tariq sees a way out of his life of petty crime. He stares longingly at the huge gates, dreaming of the luxuries beyond. But the dream quickly turns into a nightmare. The Palace is ruled by an enigmatic Master whose influence in the city is as wide as it is wicked. When Tariq succeeds in being appointed to serve the Master it becomes clear that he has been chosen for a single, terrible task. Years later, Tariq is trapped. He has become no more than a slave – and there is only one way out.

Born in Saudi Arabia in 1962, Abdo Khal studied political science and began his career as a preacher before becoming a primary school teacher. He turned to writing as a way of attacking the corruption of the wealthy in the Arab world.

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Land of No Rain Amjad Nasser Original Title: Haythou La Tasqoutoul Amtar Translation: Jonathan Wright • F irst novel by a highly-regarded Jordanian poet • An uncompromising look at the personal and emotional cost of political exile

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‘One of the best books I’ve read in a long time’ – Ahdaf Soueif

FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992194584 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101175 PRICE: £ 12.99 PUB DATE: 24/4/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

‘An irresistible shapeshifting novel.’ – Guardian

Land of No Rain takes place in Hamiya, a fictional Arab country run by military commanders who treat power as a personal possession to be handed down from one generation to the next. The main character was forced into exile from Hamiya twenty years earlier for taking part in a failed assassination attempt on the military ruler known as the Grandson. On his return to his homeland, he encounters family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first love, but most importantly he grapples with his own self, the person he left behind. Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.

Amjad Nasser, a Jordanian poet born in 1955, has written numerous volumes of poetry and several travel memoirs. He has worked for newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus and since 1987 he has lived in London where he is managing editor and cultural editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily newspaper. Land of No Rain is his first novel.

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The Arch and the Butterfly Mohammed Achaari Original Title: Al-Qaws Wal-Farasha Translation: Aida Bamia • Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011 • Written by a leading Moroccan writer and political figure One letter, one morning. And his life was never the same again. GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992179055 E-PUB ISBN: 9789992195451 PRICE: £ 12.99 PUB DATE: 8/5/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD EXCEPT ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘An impressive, if bleak, fictional exploration of the roots of Radical Islam – and the difficulties challenging it’ –Independent

As he prepares to leave for work one morning, Youssef alFirsiwi finds a mysterious letter under his door. In a single devastating line he learns that his only son, Yacine, whom he believed to be studying engineering in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance. Yousif, the son of a Moroccan father and German-born mother, is quickly caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect the changing world he lives in. With his world already shattered, and finding himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Yousif begins to question everything – including his own values and identity.

Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short story writer, journalist, former Minister of Culture in Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. His work has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second novel.

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Blue Lorries Radwa Ashour Original Title: Farag Translation: Barbara Romaine • O ne of the most important Egyptian writers of her generation • Blue Lorries is a clear and striking voice through three generations of political struggle in Egypt

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9789992194485 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101250 PRICE: £ 12.99 PUB DATE: 22/5/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

‘An important writer whose exemplary work we need more of in English.’ – Independent

One woman’s life. Three generations of defiance. A tale of Egypt then and now. Nada is no stranger to protest. She is five years old when her French mother takes her to visit her Egyptian father, a political activist in prison. When he returns home, a changed man, their little family begins to fracture. Through her teenage years Nada is surrounded by the language of protest – ‘anarchism’, ‘Trotskyism’, ‘Communism’. Through student sit-ins, imprisonments, passionate arguments, accidental alliances, fallen friends, joys and regrets, Nada’s story grows into the story of Egypt’s many celebrated activists. Moving, uplifting and deeply human, Radwa Ashour’s masterpiece is the story of Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century and a paean to all those who choose a life of activism and quiet defiance. Radwa Ashour was an Egyptian writer and scholar. A long-time professor of English literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo, she held a PhD from the University of Massachusetts. Ashour passed away in late November 2014. She is survived by her husband, Mourid Barghouti, and son, Tamim.

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June Rain Jabbour Douaihy Original Title: Matar Hzayran Translation: Paula Haydar • S hortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2006 • Runner-up for the 2014 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992142783 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101311 PRICE: £ 12.99 PUB DATE: 5/6/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

‘A poweful novel which one cannot fail to recommend’ – Etudes On June 16, 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is split in two. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neigbours turn into enemies, and husbands and wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan.

‘Cries out for an English translation.’ – National

At the center of this novel is Eliyya, who, twenty years after emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre: the father he never knew.

‘A powerful and complex novel.’ – Le Canard Enchâiné

With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy describes that fateful Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the traditions and affections of village life were consumed by violence and revenge. Jabbour Douaihy was born in 1949 in Zgharta, Lebanon. He is a professor of French literature at the Lebanese University and has published numerous novels and short story collections. He lives in Lebanon.

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Days of Ignorance Laila Aljohani Original Title: Jahiliyya Translation: Nancy Roberts • Award-winning author in her English language debut A Romeo and Juliet for our times Medina, Saudi Arabia. A young man, Malek, has been brutally attacked for being of the ‘wrong’ race. GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9789992195192 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101281 PRICE: £ 9.99 PUB DATE: 3/7/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

‘[These]… artfully orchestrated ambivalences and moral conundrums power the book and highlight Aljohani’s skill at manipulating emotional responses.’ – National

Malek’s lover, Leen, waits by his bedside and reflects on their relationship and her life as an unmarried, childless woman. All around her are voices of judgment and concern; in the twenty-first century it is still unforgivable, and dangerous, for a Saudi woman to enter into a relationship with a black man. In the distance US planes hover over Iraq, primed to embark on yet another senseless conflict. Malek’s attacker was Leen’s brother. Flinging wide a window onto the second holiest Islamic city – a city in which people observe daily prayers and preach equality and justice – Days of Ignorance is a novel about honour, hypocrisy, war and fear. And, glimmering beyond, beneath and behind it all, love.

Laila Aljohani is an award-winning Saudi Arabian writer of short stories and novels. She was born in the northern city of Tubuq, Saudi Arabia.

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Beirut, Beirut Sonallah Ibrahim Original Title: Beirut, Beirut Translation: Chip Rossetti • F rom one of the most important and controversial Egyptian writers of a generation • A fascinating insight into the region and some of the historical reasons of ongoing unrest

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992194522 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101342 PRICE: £ 12.99 PUB DATE: 11/9/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

‘Ibrahim is a sort of oracle.’ – New Yorker

A city – known for its light-heartedness, vibrancy and capacity for fun – is ripped apart by war November, 1980. An Egyptian writer has chosen the wrong time to come to Beirut in search of a publisher for his controversial book. Men with machine guns are on every street corner. When the writer meets an old friend from his revolutionary student days, he is introduced to two fascinating women: idealistic film-maker Antoinette and Lamia, the seductive wife of his would-be publisher. His attentions inevitably turn towards the two women, but the background rumble of strife and struggle becomes increasingly hard to ignore. Based on the author’s real-life experience of the civil war in Lebanon, Beirut, Beirut is an exploration of how, even in the midst of chaos and violence, universals such as love, desire and yearning are still always our guiding forces.

After studying at Cairo University, Sonallah Ibrahim worked as a journalist until he was imprisoned in 1959 for his political activities. Since his debut prison novel, That Smell, he has been a full-time writer. He is particularly celebrated for the way he uses literature to speak out against political regimes.

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Golda Slept Here Suad Amiry • Suad Amiry is the 2014 winner of the Premio Nonino If buildings could tell their stories… Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East. GENRE: NON-FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927101465 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101441 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 10/11/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD ARABIC AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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‘A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in occupied territories.’ – Observer ‘Spirited, thoughtprovoking and shockingly entertaining.’ – Daily Mail

Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments and personal tragedies; evokes the sights and smells of Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between official histories and private memories. Through poetry and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between remembering and forgetting.

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Architect and writer Suad Amiry lives in Ramallah where she is director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation. She received the Italian Viareggio-Versilia Prize for Sharon and My Mother-in-Law in 2004. 19

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Where Pigeons Don’t Fly Yousef Al-Mohaimeed Original Title: Alhamam La Yatiru Fi Buraydah Translation: Robin Moger • Coming of age in Saudi: not for the fainthearted • Winner of the 2011 Chebbi Prize, one of the most respected literary prizes in the Arab world GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992179161

‘Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is a rising star in international literature’ – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101373 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 4/12/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD EXCEPT ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘Yousef AlMohaimeed writes in a lush style that evokes Gabriel García Márquez.’ – Washington Post ‘At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia.’ – Hanan al-Shaykh, author of A Thousand and One Nights 20

Where Pigeons Don’t Fly follows the story of Fahd, a young boy growing up in Saudi Arabia. Fahd’s childhood is overshadowed by his father’s involvement in the attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Now an artist and critic, the adult Fahd finds that, both in work and in love, he is at loggerheads with repressive cultural and religious norms. When he and his girlfriend are detained by the ‘virtue’ police, Fahd contemplates a life of self-imposed exile in a remote corner of Britain, rather than remaining somewhere he doesn’t feel he belongs.

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has published several novels and short story collections in Arabic, and his work has been translated into English, Russian, Spanish and German.

CLOUDY DAY ON A WESTERN SHORE MOHAMED AL-MANSI QANDIL ALHAMBRA TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH IN THE HOPE OF VIRGINS JAMAL NAJI KILIMANJARO SPIRIT IBRAHIM NASRALLAH AFTER COFFEE ABDELRASHID MAHMOUDI MEN DON’T CRY FAÏZA GUÈNE A SUSPENDED LIFE ATEF ABU SAIF

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Cloudy Day on a Western Shore Mohamed al-Mansi Qandil Original Title: Yawm Gha’em Fi Al-Bar Al-Gharbi Translation: Barbara Romaine

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• A compulsively readable historical yarn evoking a fascinating period of great archaelogical discovery, in the vein of Kate Mosse’s ‘Sepulchre’ • Based on historical events and real-life figures

FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9789927118524 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118548 PRICE: £ 16.99 PUB DATE: 28/1/2016 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

‘If I were English like you,’ he said to me as he was dragged away by the police, ‘Would you have treated me this way?’

It’s the dawn of the 20th Century, and Britain’s glittering Empire extends far and wide, full of the dangerously seductive promise of untapped riches. Howard is on an expedition to locate Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt. Amidst growing unrest between the tyrannical British rulers and the so-called ‘barbarians’, he meets Aisha – a bewildering mix of contradictions whose profile bears more than a passing resemblance to Nefertiti’s beautiful face depicted on the Pharaonic relics Howard loves so much. A Cloudy Day on a Western Shore is a page-turning gallop through a momentous occasion in recent world history as well as an exploration on questions relating to national identity.

Award-winning Egyptian novelist Mohamed al-Mansi Qandil was born in the Nile delta. He went to medical school, and worked as a countryside doctor before turning to literature. He has published several novels, short story collections and children’s books. He now lives in Canada. 24

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Alhambra Tim Mackintosh-Smith • F iction debut from a celebrated travel writer and award-winning documentarian • For fans of Conn Iggulden and Robert Harris

Terrorists are nothing new.

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9789927118555

The year is 1368 and Granada is under threat from violent extremists. Enter Abu Abdallah, the penniless globetrotter who has had wives and concubines on three continents and is still searching for the right woman, and his West African slave Sinan, the one with the brawn, the brains, the looks – and the demons in his past.

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118579 PRICE: £ 12.99 PUB DATE: 12/3/2016 RIGHTS: WORLD

‘Mackintosh-Smith has all the assets a travel writer needs: erudition, rather subversive good humour and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complex detail in a few telling lines’ – Daily Telegraph

They arrive to find Granada’s labyrinthine palace-citadel, the Alhambra, nearing its triumphant completion. But Sinan and Abu Abdallah are drawn into a darker maze, where inexplicable events and baffling mysteries lie in wait at every turn and threaten to ruin forever the delicate balance of Muslim-Christian power in Spain. It’s up to Sinan and his master to penetrate the terrorists’ cell and neutralize their horrific weapon, known only as ‘the Remedy’. And over it all hangs the fate of one of the most famous gemstones in history: The Black Prince’s Ruby.

Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a British-born, Oxford-educated Arabist, award-winning travel writer and lecturer. For almost thirty years his home has been Sana’a. Tim presented a major BBC documentary series on his experiences walking in the footsteps of 14th century traveller Ibn Batuttah. 25

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In the Hope of Virgins Jamal Naji Original Title: Mawsim Al-Houriyyat Translation: Paula Haydar • C aptures the post-Arab Spring atmosphere across the Middle East • For all those who loved The Reluctant Fundamentalist This is no ordinary coming of age story…

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927118111

Amidst the violence rippling across the Middle East, a wealthy businessman is visited by an oracle and is given news that shakes the very foundations of his existence.

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118128 PRICE: £ 16.99 PUB DATE: 21/4/2016 RIGHTS: WORLD

Meanwhile, a twenty-year-old young man is fighting with the Islamic faction against the Syrian regime. But torn apart by feelings of shame and betrayal, he sets himself on a course headed towards revenge and self-destruction. So begins a journey that takes readers across a region overtaken by sectarian and religious strife, as two men – at different stages of their lives – embark on their ill-begotten, unholy missions. With nuance and precision, Naji captures the characters and landscape of a post-Arab Spring Middle East, taking readers from Jordan to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and even India.

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Jamal Naji is a Jordanian novelist of Palestinian descent, who was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2010. He was awarded the Prize of the Jordanian State 2014 for his narrative writing, the most prestigious award in Jordan.

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Kilimanjaro Spirit Ibrahim Nasrallah Original Title: Arwah’ Kilimanjaro Translation: Paula Haydar • F rom an award-winning author, previously shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2009 • A much-loved bestselling author in the Arab world Losing another is agony. But what about when you lose yourself? GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927118418 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118425 PRICE: £ 16.99

A group of disparate individuals, amongst whom two Palestinian adolescents who have lost their legs in Israeli bomb strikes, are preparing to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. They have nothing – and everything – in common.

PUB DATE: 5/5/2016 RIGHTS: WORLD

Hailing from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and America, the characters test the limits of their physical and emotional strengths to prove to themselves that they can transcend their strife-ridden histories and accomplish the unexpected. Nasrallah’s work is a page-turning, nail-biting tale of adventure, as well as ode to the resilience of the human spirit.

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Born in a refugee camp in Jordan, Ibrahim Nasrallah is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, painter and photographer. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro was the first to include participation of an Arab author and was in support of charity work for Palestinian and Arab children in need of medical care. 27

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After Coffee Abdel Rashid Mahmoudi • W inner of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Award • Dark humour, experimental prose and a peppering of classical Arabic narrative Egypt is a grand museum from farthest north to the deepest south, yet we are so rich that we hardly notice our wealth

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Medhat is an orphaned boy who grows up shuffling between various farming families in the beautiful province of Ismailia, north of Egypt.

FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9789927118302 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118319 PRICE: £ 16.99 PUB DATE: 21/7/2016 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

What was intended to be a brief visit for the five-year-old to Cairo ended up being the beginning of a nomadic life no one could have imagined for him. Mehat’s journey takes him across the many landmarks of Egypt and beyond, all the way to Vienna where he discovers that his feelings of displacement still haunt him at the core. In a narrative that interweaves aspects of Egyptian folklore, epic prose and classical literature, Mahmoudi skillfully presents the conflict between the man in exile who reflects longingly on his history and origins, and the village boy who belonged nowhere.

Abdul Rashid Mahmoudi is an Egyptian poet, writer, translator and academic. He studied philosophy at the University of Cairo and University of London. Mahmoudi has published many academic works, as well as poetry, short stories and a novel. After Coffee is his second novel. 28

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Men Don’t Cry Faïza Guène Translation: Sarah Ardizzone

• Author is France’s youngest bestselling author • An incredibly witty, poignant and intimate account of what it means to grow up in today’s globalised world

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In this resonant, exquisitely crafted book, Faïza Guène delves into the dual heritage of her young French-Moroccan protagonist who is caught between his parents’ desperation for him to follow their traditional values and his own ambition to integrate into the seemingly alluring French society. Men Don’t Cry is a colourful portrait of a divided society, full of contradictions, tensions and humour. It is a coming of age story that will enthral, challenge and resonate with readers – wherever they are in the world.

The child of Algerian mining immigrants, Faïza Guène is a novelist and director who grew up in the estates of Pantin, in the suburbs north of Paris. Aged nineteen, she became a publishing phenomenon with her first novel Kiffe Kiffe Demain, which was translated into 22 languages and sold in 27 countries.

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A Suspended Life Atef Abu Saif • S hortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2015 • From Palestine’s brightest young literary talent, previously published in the Guardian and the New York Times

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Naim lives in a Gazan refugee camp. A larger-than-life character who everyone in the camp knows, he runs the only print shop in the area, where he prints posters of martyred members of the community. It is his form of protest – his way of honouring dead friends.

FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9789927118487 E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118517 PRICE: £ 16.99 PUB DATE: 28/8/2016 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH

‘Atef Abu Saif dares to write about Gaza from an angle quite apart from the news bulletins . . . He is defying the unitary narrative that the media have associated with Gaza.’ – Mourid Barghouti

This risky activity makes him a direct target and brings unwanted attention to the people in a relatively quiet community who are trying to exist below-the-radar in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of the world. At its heart, A Suspended Life is about just that – trying to reclaim a life that has been suspended, frozen – temporarily or indefinitely – by war.

Atef Abu Saif was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, the eldest of 14 children. He still lives in Gaza, where he teaches Political Science at the University of Al-Azhar. His writing has been published in the New York Times and in the Guardian.

TAQS AMIR TAG ELSIR MAWSIM AL-HOURIYYAT JAMAL NAJI AL-ISLAM WA AL-HORRIYA TARIQ RAMADAN GOLDA NAMAT HONA SUAD AMIRY BAYNA AL-ARDH WA AL-SAMAA’ SOPHIA AL-MARIA GHAZA TAHTA AL-JILD SELMA DABBAGH ARWAH’ KILIMANJARO IBRAHIM NASRALLAH WA RADDAT AL-JIBAL AL-SADA KHALED HOSSEINI THIQAH ARIEL DORFMAN LIMADHA TAFSHAL MU’DHAM AL SHARIKAT AL-SAGHIRA MICHAEL E. GERBER QALAM AN-NAJJAR MANUEL RIVAS

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Taqs Amir Tag Elsir English Title: Telepathy • F rom an author shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction • A bestselling author in the Middle East A psychological thriller blurring the line between literary fantasy and real-life tragedy.

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927101885 PRICE: £ 8.99 PUB DATE: 15/1/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD

‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers.’ – Daily News, Egypt

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A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate? Elsir takes his readers on a chilling journey through the unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and of the relationship between imagination and reality.

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Mawsim Al-Houriyyat Jamal Naji English Title: In The Hope of Virgins • A brand new title by a leading Arab author • Captures the post-Arab Spring atmosphere across the Middle East An unflinching exploration of life in a region rocked by the radicalisation of Muslim youth.

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927118074 PRICE: £ 6.99 PUB DATE: 23/4/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD

Amidst the violence rippling across the Middle East, a wealthy businessman is visited by an oracle and is given news that shakes the very foundations of his existence. Meanwhile, a 20-year-old young man is fighting with the Islamic faction against the Syrian regime. But torn apart by feelings of shame and betrayal, he sets himself on a course headed towards revenge and self-destruction. So begins a journey that takes readers across a region overtaken by sectarian and religious strife, as two men – at different stages of their livs – embark on their ill-begotten, unholy missions. With nuance and precision, Naji captures the characters and landscape of a post-Arab Spring Middle East, taking readers from Jordan to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and even India.

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Jamal Naji is a Jordanian short story writer and novelist of Palestinian descent, who was shortlisted for the IPAF in 2010. He was awarded the Prize of the Jordanian State 2014 for his narrative writing. Naji works as head of the Intelligentsia Centre for Research and Survey in Amman, Jordan.

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Al-Islam Wa Al-Horriya Tariq Ramadan Original Title: What I Believe Translation: Osama El Ghazoly • N amed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, as well as one of the most important innovators of the 21st century

GENRE: NON-FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992194577

A thought-provoking account of modern western Muslim life written by one of the most respected scholars of Islamic thought today.

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‘What I Believe is one of today’s most important books.’ – San Francisco / Sacramento Book Review

Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar and an outspoken public figure. This combination has made him a controversial figure, characterized by both sides of the spectrum as either too liberal or too radical. In an attempt to set the record straight, Ramadan lays out his beliefs, speaking directly to Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike. Ramadan deals with deeply emotional and divisive issues surrounding perceptions of Islam and those who practice it, particularly in Europe and the West in general. Using clear and accessible prose, Ramadan changes the narrative of immigration, religion, and radicalism into one about human dignity, multiculturalism and social justice.

Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the Oxford University and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is President of the European think tank: European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels. He is a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.

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Golda Namat Hona Suad Amiry Original Title: Golda Slept Here Translation: Ayman H. Haddad • Suad Amiry is the 2014 winner of the Premio Nonino Palestine: the Presence of the Absent

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In this literary-historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East.

ISBN: 9789927101434 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 21/5/2015 RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH AND ARABIC LANGUAGE

Praise for Suad Amiry:

‘A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in occupied territories.’ – Observer ‘Spirited, thoughtprovoking and shockingly entertaining.’ – Daily Mail

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Bayna Al-Ardh Wa Al-Samaa’ Sophia Al-Maria Original Title: The Girl Who Fell to Earth Translation: Ziad Ziady • A ward-winning filmaker and coiner of the term Gulf Futurism

GENRE: FICTION/MEMOIR FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927101915 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 30/07/2015 RIGHTS: ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘[Sophia Al-Maria] offers us an original outlook on ancient ground – what any artist hopes to achieve.’ – New York Times’ Sunday Book Review

With poignancy and humor, Al-Maria shares the struggles of being raised by an American mother and Bedouin father When Sophia Al-Maria’s mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay with her husband’s desert-dwelling Bedouin family in Qatar, she intends it to be a sort of teenage cultural boot camp. Struggling to adapt to her nomadic lifestyle, Sophia is haunted by the feeling that she is perpetually in exile: hovering somewhere between two worlds. She embarks on a complex journey that includes finding young love in the Arabian Gulf, rebellion in Cairo, and, finally, self-discovery in the mountains of Sinai. The Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the voyage home.

Sophia Al-Maria is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum in New York, and the Architectural Association in London. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Five Dials, Triple Canopy, and Bidoun. 38

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Ghaza Tahta Al-Jild Selma Dabbagh Original Title: Out of It Translation: Kholoud Amr • Nominated as a Guardian Book of the Year in 2011 • An unblinking look at life in Gaza, beyond the headlines The writing is both literary and accessible, fast-paced, passionate, exuberant and heart-lurching. We’ll be hearing much more from Selma Dabbagh – Guardian GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992194683 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 27/8/2015 RIGHTS: ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘Takes us, observantly and deftly, into the lives and feelings of those who live in Gaza and want ordinary lives.’ – Marina Warner, Observer, Books of the Year

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Gaza is being bombed. Rashid – a young, clever Palestinian – has been smoking grass on the roof watching it happen when he gets the e-mail he has been desperate for: he’s won a scholarship to London. Rashid’s sister, Iman, frustrated by the atrocities and inaction around her, is beginning to take an interest in an Islamic resistance group. Sabri, their intellectual older brother, is working on a history of Palestine from his wheelchair while their mother pickles vegetables and feuds with the neighbours. Out Of It follows the lives of Rashid and Iman as they try to forge places for themselves in the midst of occupation, the growing divide between Palestinian factions, and the rise of fundamentalism. Written with extraordinary humanity and humour, and moving between Gaza, London and the Gulf, this book helps to re-define Palestine and its people.

Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer based in London. Her short stories have been included anthologies published by Granta and International PEN. They have also been nominated for the International PEN David TK Wong Award and the Pushcart Prize. Out of It is her first novel. 39

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Arwah’ Kilimanjaro Ibrahim Nasrallah English Title: Kilimanjaro Spirit • F rom an award-winning author, previously shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2009 • A much-loved bestselling author in the Arab world They all came knowing what they wanted from the mountain, few knew what the mountain wanted from them GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927118401 PRICE: £ 6.99 PUB DATE: 10/9/2015

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Wa Raddadat Al-Jibal Al-Sada Khaled Hosseini Original Title: And the Mountains Echoed Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid • F rom the New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns • An Amazon best book of the month GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927101908 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 22/10/2015 RIGHTS: ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally gripping story yet…’ – New York Times

Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe – from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos – the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-eight countries. He has been appointed a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in Northern California. 41

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Thiqah Ariel Dorfman Original Title: Konfidenz Translation: Saleh Almani • Author’s first novel to be translated into Arabic • Translated by Saleh Almani, one of the best translators of Spanish-language literature in the Arab world A passionate treatise on love, repression, and aesthetics

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992195789

Tense and tightly woven, Thiqah is a dramatic novel set in Paris during World War II about a woman whose lover is accused of working for the Resistance.

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‘From the first page, this slim novel invokes the menace of the former in order to underscore and explore the vulnerability of the latter.’ – The New York Times, Sven Birkerts

The novel follows nine hours of phone conversations between a woman and a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she fled her homeland. As the dialogue progresses, the man tells her many disturbing things about her and her lover (who may be in great danger), the political situations in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies about her. Powerful and menacing, Thiqah draws the reader into a postmodern mystery where nothing – including the text itself – is what it seems.

Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. He has been a professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.

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Limadha Tafshal Mu’dham Al Sharikat Al-Saghira Michael E. Gerber Original Title: The E-Myth Revisited Translation: Anwar Al Shamy • Written by the World’s #1 Small Business Guru An essential guide to success in small businesses GENRE: NON-FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992194911 PRICE: £ 6.99 PUB DATE: 5/11/2015 RIGHTS: ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘Gerber loves to exhort people to develop powerful visions for their companies.’ – Fortune Magazine

In this long-running business bestseller, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective. He then shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. After you have read this book, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

Michael E. Gerber is the Founder of Michael E. Gerber Companies to help provide small business owners and entrepreneurs with the advice they need to build a business that works. The Michael E. Gerber Companies group is fast becoming the largest and most effective entrepreneurial development resource of its kind in the world.

BAYNAMA YANAM AL-A’LAM SUSAN ABULHAWA A’DDA’ AL-TAIRA AL-WARAQIYYA KHALED HOSSEINI ALFU SHAMSIN SATIA’A KHALED HUSSEINI 23 HAQIQA YUKHFOONAHA A’NKA BIKHOSOOS AL-RASMALIYYA HA-JOON CHANG AL-SHIRA’ AL-MOQADDAS ABDULAZIZ AL-MAHMOUD KAL MA’ LIL-SHUKULATA LAURA ESQUIVEL

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Baynama Yanam Al-A’lam Susan Abulhawa Original Title: Mornings in Jenin Translation: Samia Shanan Tamimi • T his is arguably the first commercial literary work from a Palestinian voice.

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992142592 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 15/3/2012 RIGHTS: ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘Abulhawa’s writing shines… Friendship, adolescence, love: ordinary events, offset against extraordinary circumstances, make the story live.’ – Independent

1948: The lives of the Abulheja family are changed forever when they are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin. Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who becomes an Israeli soldier; and the other, who as a result of sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause, becomes his brother’s unwitting enemy. Amal’s own dramatic story weaves its way between these strands. This is a moving and powerful novel that will have an enormous impact on all those who read it.

Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967, when her family’s land was seized. She moved to the USA as a teenager established a career in medical science. In July 2001, Susan Abulhawa founded Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organisation dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children.

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A’dda’ Al-Taira Al-Waraqiyya Khaled Hosseini Original Title: The Kite Runner Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid • T he remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini now officially available in Arabic • Was an Academy award-nominated film which grossed over $15 million at the US Box Office GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992178966 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 27/9/2012

Afghanistan in the 1970s: twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. What happens to Hassan that afternoon will shatter their lives…

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‘The Kite Runner is a first novel of unusual generosity, honesty and compassion.’ – Guardian

After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has sold 8 million copies worldwide.

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Alfu Shamsin Satia’a Khaled Hosseini Original Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid • 7 5 weeks on the New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN:9789992194065 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 14/3/2013 RIGHTS: ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘Hosseini’s illuminating book [is] a worthy sequel to The Kite Runner.’ – Los Angeles Times ‘A masterful narrative… He is a storyteller of dizzying power.’ – Evening Standard

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. The sense of longing evoked in Khaled Hosseini’s novel is compelling and universal: the passionate search for love, family, home, acceptance, a healthy society, and a promising future, regardless of the obstacles. This novel transcends boundaries and illuminates the people and culture of a region that has been reluctantly thrust into the international spotlight.

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23 Haqiqa Yukhfoonaha A’nka Bikhosoos Al-Rasmaliyya Ha-Joon Chang Original Title: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism Translation: Mohamed Fathy Kalfat GENRE: NON-FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK

• Award-winning author of Bad Samaritans

ISBN: 9789992194263 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 5/12/2013

One of today’s most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the biggest myths about the world we live in

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‘Myth-busting and nicely-written collection of essays.’ – Independent ‘For anyone who wants to understand capitalism… as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable.’ – Observer

This book will turn every piece of economic wisdom you’ve heard on its head. It reveals the truth behind what ‘they’ tell you and how the system really works. There’s no such thing as a ‘free’ market. Globalization isn’t making the world richer. Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones. Higher paid managers don’t produce better results. This galvanizing, fact-packed book about money, equality, freedom and greed proves that the free market isn’t just bad for people – it’s an inefficient way of running economies too. Here Chang lays out the alternatives, and shows there’s a better way. Ha-Joon Chang has taught at the University of Cambridge since 1990. In addition to numerous articles in journals and edited volumes, he has published seven books and eight edited books. In 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. His writings have been translated into thirteen languages. 49

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Al-Shira’ Al-Moqaddas Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud • A uthor is a much celebrated Qatari writer • In the vein of Clive Cussler, a swashbuckling tale of adventure and high treason • Historical fiction covering a neglected period of time and place in the world In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf. In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist… GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789927101700

Portugal, 1486. Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages, and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is still unchartered territory…

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101717 PRICE: £ 7.99 PUB DATE: 11/11/2014 RIGHTS: WORLD

‘The author has brilliantly established a dramatic structure with great political awareness… an excellent historical mind.’ – Al Jazeera Also e bl availa lish g n in E 9 p. 50

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Kal Ma’ Lil-Shukulata Laura Esquivel Original Title: Como Agua Para Chocolate Translation: Saleh Almani • H as sold more than 4.5 million copies around the world and has been translated into 35 languages, available for the first time in Arabic • Remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992195543

Earthy, magical and charming, a tale of family life in turn-ofthe-century Mexico

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‘Utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-thecentury Mexico… (an) exquisite first novel.’ – Publishers Weekly

A highly original novel by one of Mexico’s most important storytellers, Like Water for Chocolate’s chapters each start with a traditional northern Mexican recipe. Cooking is the exclusive means of expression open to the female protagonist, who doesn’t conform to the limited role that both society and her family have given her. Tita is trapped in a destiny predetermined at birth: family tradition dictates that the youngest daughter must renounce marriage and devote herself to the care of her mother. Tita, however, is passionately in love with Pedro, her eldest sister’s husband.

Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City. She began her career as a screen-writer, gaining international acclaim. The publication of her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, in 1990 was one of the major literary landmarks of that decade. The film based on the novel, with a script written by Esquivel herself, won several prizes and was a box-office hit. 51

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Qalam An-Najjar Manuel Rivas Original Title: El Lápiz Del Carpintero Translation: Saleh Almani • A bestseller in Spain, Qalam An-Najjar has been published in nine countries • Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the most important contemporary Spanish authors • Winner of the Critics’ Award and the Galician Writers’ Association Award in 1998 GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992194898 PRICE: £ 8.99

‘A strange and haunting novel… a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history’ – Guardian

PUB DATE: 18/12/2014 RIGHTS: ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘I have learned more about the Spanish Civil War by reading The Carpenter’s Pencil by Manuel Rivas than through all the history books.’ – Günter Grass, Nobel Prize of Literature 1999

Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam anNajjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican who cheats death in Franco’s prisons, and Herbal, the illiterate Falangist, and of the unnamed painter with the carpenter’s pencil, the man who unites them in life and death. All are bound together by the events of the Civil War – the artists and the peasants alike – and all haunted by the power of the carpenter’s pencil.

Manuel Rivas was born in La Coruña. From novels, poetry, plays and essays, he covers every genre, varying his stylistic methods between the colloquial language of the man on the street in his Galician homeland and a more lyrical tone. His literature gives voice to the memory of the wounds suffered by the body, land, and language.

MUSHATON YUNADOON IKHWATAHOM GHASSAN ZAQTAN ISTAJIB IN DAA’TKA ALJIBAL MOHAMED GHOZZI KITAB ALASHYA’ HASHEM SHAFIQ

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GENRE: POETRY PUB DATE: 24/9/2015 ISBN: 9789927118432

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Mushaton Yunadoon Ikhwatahom Ghassan Zaqtan English Title: Passing By • C omposed by the winner of the prestigious Griffin Prize for Poetry 2013, the poems in this collection revolve around the competing forces of life and death.

GENRE: POETRY PUB DATE: 24/9/2015 ISBN: 9789927118449

Istajib in Daa’tka Aljibal Mohamed Ghozzi English Title: Obey the Mountains • A collection of poems with themes of loss and nostalgia, authored by one of the most highly-regarded poetic voices from Tunisia.

GENRE: POETRY PUB DATE: 24/9/2015 ISBN: 9789927118456

Kitab Alashya’ Hashem Shafiq English Title: The Book of Things • W ritten by a diasporic Iraqi poet, this work deals with the physical presence of everyday objects in our lives and the intensity they hold.

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An Iraqi in Paris Samuel Shimon Translated by: Piers Amodia, Christina Phillips

Vertigo Ahmed Mourad Translated by: Robin Moger

Utopia Ahmed Khaled Towfik Translated by: Chip Rossetti

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Ahmed, a society photographer in a celebrated Cairo nightclub, witnesses a friend horrifically killed in a fight between young business rivals. Forced to escape the scene of the crime and go into hiding, Ahmed is ensnared in a web of cover-ups and crimes. In this sprawling political thriller, Ahmed is forced to confront ruthless players in a game where the penalty for failure could be his life.

A grim futuristic account of Egyptian society in the year 2023, Utopia takes readers on a chilling journey beyond the gated communities of the North Coast where the wealthy are insulated from the bleakness of life outside the walls. When a young man and a girl break out from this bubble of affluence in order to see for themselves the lives of their impoverished fellow Egyptians, they are confronted by a world they could not have imagined.

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A young Iraqi writer sets out to become a Hollywood film-maker, only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris. Although his dream of making a film about his deaf mute father is never realised, the extraordinary encounters he has with the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Beckett and a ghost from Père Lachaise Cemetery transform his own story into a captivating drama more compelling than anything on the big screen. 58

The Tobacco Keeper Ali Bader Translated by: Amira Noweira

Out of It Selma Dabbagh

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The Corsair Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud Translated by: Amira Noweira

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Written with extraordinary humanity and humour, and moving between Gaza, London and the Gulf, Out of It is a tale that redefines Palestine and its people. It follows the lives of Rashid and Iman as they try to forge paths for themselves in the midst of occupation, religious fundamentalism and the divisions between Palestinian factions. It tells of family secrets, unlikely love stories and unburied tragedies as it captures the frustrations and energies of the modern Arab world.

It’s the early nineteenth century and piracy in the Gulf threatens global maritime trade routes. Britain, eager to reinforce its presence in the Middle East and protect its interests, sends an Englishman to quash the pirates while persuading Egypt to join an international alliance with Oman and Persia to fight against the Wahabbis. But Erhama bin Jaber, a historical figure and one of the most notorious pirates in the Gulf, has his own agenda and his own vendettas.

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Expelled to Israel in the 1950s, a Jewish Iraqi musician returns to Iraq only to be thrown out as an Israeli spy. Returning for a third time under a forged passport, he is murdered in mysterious circumstances. After arriving in Baghdad’s Green Zone during the US-led occupation, a journalist is determined to write a story about the musician’s life and instead discovers an underworld of forgers, mafias and militias.

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Vertigo Ahmed Mourad English Title: Vertigo

Wazn Al Ruh Mabrouck Rachedi English Title: Weight of a Soul Translated by: Rasha Sabbagh

Ghaddan Kiffe Kiffe Faïza Guène English Title: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

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ISBN: 9789992142400

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ISBN: 9789992142417

ISBN: 9789992142431

PUB DATE: 15/11/2010

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PUB DATE: 20/12/2010

ARABIC IN EGYPT

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When Lounès is suspended from school a sequence of events changes his life. Innocently caught up in a heroin deal that turns ugly, the young man faces a media-fed storm of prejudice and protest. Writing with the tautness and tension of a thriller, Rachedi observes as his young hero inspires and unites otherwise isolated suburban residents, with surprising results.

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The residential Paradise projects are only a few metro stops from central Paris, but it’s a different world. Doria’s father, the Beard, has headed back to Morocco, leaving behind Doria and her mother. It seems that mektoub – their fate – has it in for them, but Doria will prove that the ‘projects’ are about more than rap,soccer and religious tension.

Al Qursan Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud English Title: The Corsair GENRE: FICTION

Al Thelal al Mohtariqa Kamila Shamsie Original Title: Burnt Shadows Translated by: Samia Shanan

Ma Ra’yukom Fi Shakli Al’an? Randa Abdel-Fattah Original Title: Does My Head Look Big In This? Translated by: Zuwaina Altuwayya

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GENRE: FICTION

ISBN: 9789992178768

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ISBN: 9789992142585

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PUB DATE: 17/10/2011

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PUB DATE: 27/9/2012

ISBN: 9789992142578

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Set in the early nineteenth century, during one of the most important periods of history in the Arabian Gulf, this groundbreaking and exciting novel unfolds against the backdrop of the brutal struggle between the British Empire and the Wahabi tribes of the Gulf for control of the area.

9 August, 1945, Nagasaki: Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one and in love with Konrad Weiss, the man she is about to marry, steps out onto her veranda, minutes before a nuclear explosion shatters her world and everything in it. Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.

PUB DATE: 12/4/2012 RIGHTS: WORLD ARABIC

Amal Abdel-Hakim is a seventeen year-old AustralianPalestinian-Muslim trying to come to grips with her various identities.It’s hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil and talking intimately about personal issues and you know you’re in for a tough time at school in Australia.

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