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    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Qassem Tawfik

    The events of the novel take place in a café in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on the night of the start of the “Naksa” (Six-Day War), in June 1967. Wijdan, a nurse who works at Amman Hospital, takes refuge in the café at the moment the war breaks out and the sky is filled with smoke. She is forced to remain there to...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History
    Author:  Shakib Arslan

    A summary of the history of Islamic Spain when it was a place of science, arts, poetry, urbanization, and creative engineering. This was also the era of warring and frivolous emirs, which eventually led to the era's downfall.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Miral al-Tahawy

    The events of this novel are sandwiched between the suicide of Jamal, a young man torn between different identities, in the opening pages, and the suicide of Mimi, an African girl who has survived a massacre in her country, at the end of the novel. They take place in an imagined small town called Shining Sun on the southwestern border...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Naguib Mahfouz

    The time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt. Against this backdrop, Mahfouz’s novel tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s colorful and bustling Khan al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Najwa Binshatwan

    A coming-of-age novel about a young girl in Libya, her extended family, and how their lives are affected by politics and war, in a narrative rich in characters and perspectives. Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Zahran Alqasmi

    Set in an Omani village, it tells the story of a water diviner employed by the villages to track springs of water hidden deep in the earth. Since birth, his life has had a profound connection with water: His mother drowned, and his father was buried when the roof of one of the water channels – or aflaj – collapsed on him....

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Rabia Raihane

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Bushra Khalfan

    Set in Muscat, the capital of Oman, in the first half of the twentieth century, the story is divided into three parts, each named after a district of the city. Dilshad, a young native of Muscat, of unknown parentage, grows up in extreme poverty in one of the Balochi areas of the city, experiencing Balochi as well as Arab culture. His daughter...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmed El-Fakharany

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  May Telmissany

    With a quiet humor, this novel gets under the skin of five middle-aged, middle class Arab intellectuals living in Canada and America, following the twists and turns of their love lives as they question their choices in life and reflect on (un)faithfulness in romantic relationships. Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad Abdulatif

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Family
    Author:  Kevin Leman

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