Books Written by Arab Authors
- Dystopian, Fiction, Satire, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. The new book censor hasn’t slept soundly in weeks. By day he...
- by Elias Jahsan
- Demographic Studies, Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers – some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration...
- Demographic Studies, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. ‘Are you this?’ she asked, cupping her hand. ‘Or are you this?’ she motioned with...
- Graphic Novels, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father’s new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country—from the award-winning author of...
- by Hala Alyan
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of...
- by Hala Alyan
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2012
In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes long after...
- by Hala Alyan
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2017
Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses by Hala Alyan follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
When their worlds collide the result is catastrophic. To Khadija, Leene embodies the tame, dutiful Syrian ideal she’s long rebelled against. And to Leene, Khadija is the strong-willed, closed-off American...
- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2009
An eye-opening look at how young Arab- and Muslim-Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy
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- by Al-Ḥarīrī
- Culture and Heritage, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2021
Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways. An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of...